Inherited Application - No documentation

David Boyd 21 Reputation points
2021-10-11T23:13:24.58+00:00

Hello, I have a vb .Net application that I have inherited after the programmer left. He didn't leave any documentation nor did he comment his code at all. We have the .sln file which allows us to view the code but the forms are missing and I'm sure other files are gone also. We are having issues with it and I am trying to debug the code with little success. The error is that the PDB file cannot be found. From what I've read the PDB files are created when the application is built. Since I'm missing so much of the project, is there any way that I can create something, somewhat functional, that I can use and debug or should I look at rebuilding the application from the ground up?

Thank you in advance.

David

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  1. Karen Payne MVP 35,191 Reputation points
    2021-10-12T09:23:09.883+00:00

    About the only option is two-fold, use dotPeek (free tool) to decompile the executable to C# then convert to VB.NET using Instant VB (paid product) to convert dotPeek generated code to VB.NET.

    Once finished the process, place the code into source control like GitHub repository.

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