Originally posted here by tampabay420
he might have used "Source Safe" a third party application that works with VisualBasic (and other Visual Studio apps) to lock/protect there source code...
I didn't know you could do that with SourceSafe... How does it work, does it encrypt the source code? Have you got a link to somewhere with more info?

I used to use the software in my job but I never learnt it's advanced functions, only used it for source control. What you just described sounds like a cool feature as source code is valuable and might best be stored encrypted.

Originally posted here by JockVSJock
Taking VB 6.0 at the local community college. The teacher sent out a .exe file and I want to look at the
source code to see how he did a few things. Somehow he has locked it down, is there anyway I can do this?
Your only option here is to ask your teacher for the source-code. To see the source-code of a VB 6 .exe file you would need a decompiler, and they do not exist. If you look for it in Google you might find some promising links, but you'll soon find out they are all just crap. It is true though, that there were decompilers for early versions of VB. But I don't know how good they were...