Decompiling P-Code in Your Mind's Eye. The Subtleties of Researching Commands of the VB Virtual Machine.
Many programmers whose work involves studying the internals of binary files sometimes encounter programs written in P-Code. Even if you are a reverse engineer who has never seen Visual Basic™ and its compiler, you surely have run into pseudo code at least once in your professional career. Unlike standard machine code, which is directly executed by the CPU, p-code is a set of virtual machine mnemonics executed by the msvbvmXX.dll engine.
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The Art of Editing Visual Basic™ Forms and Controls
If you are experienced in analyzing software applications and in localization, then you have surely encountered some programs written in Visual Basic™. Doesn't it surprise you that there is almost no information on how to edit VB forms and controls? In this article, I'm going to fill this gap as best as I can. (Actually, I wrote it in early 2007, and all the time since then it had been waiting to be published.)
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