Reverse Engineering VB .NET

You can reverse engineer VB .NET files into an OOM.

In the Selection tab, you can select to reverse engineer files, directories or projects.

You can also define a base directory. The base directory is the common root directory for all the files to reverse engineer. This base directory will be used during regeneration to recreate the exact file structure of the reverse engineered files.

Edit Source

You can right-click the files to reverse engineer and select the Edit command to view the content of your files. To use this command you have to associate the file extension with an editor in the General Options\Editor dialog box.

Selecting VB .NET Reverse Engineering Options
You define the following VB .NET reverse engineering option from the Reverse Engineer VB .NET dialog box:
VB .NET Reverse Engineering Preprocessing
VB .NET files may contain conditional code that needs to be handled by preprocessing directives during reverse engineering. A preprocessing directive is a command placed within the source code that directs the compiler to do a certain thing before the rest of the source code is parsed and compiled. The preprocessing directive has the following structure:
Reverse Engineering VB .NET Files
You can reverse engineer VB .NET files.

Parent topic: Working with VB .NET

Created October 7, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com