Reverse Engineering

[Rodrigo Ferreira]

Anyone can explain me in a few words what is reverse engineering
(benefficts) and how can i do that?

 

[Peter Rilling]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering

Use the product Reflector to decompile (http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/)
..NET code.

 

[Dmytro Lapshyn [MVP]]

Hi Rodrigo,

Generally, it's an attempt to turn machine code (be it native CPU
instructions, Java byte code or MSIL) back to source code in some
programming language. In many cases, it's illegal and explicitely prohibited
by license agreements.

The only benefit I can think of is when you have a compiled component
exposing some unwanted behavior, you don't have the source code, and you
really need to understand what's going wrong with the component.

 

[Peter Rilling]

Antoher benefit is to see how someone did something that you want to do.

Hi Rodrigo,

Generally, it's an attempt to turn machine code (be it native CPU
instructions, Java byte code or MSIL) back to source code in some
programming language. In many cases, it's illegal and explicitely prohibited
by license agreements.

The only benefit I can think of is when you have a compiled component
exposing some unwanted behavior, you don't have the source code, and you
really need to understand what's going wrong with the component.

--
Sincerely,
Dmytro Lapshyn [Visual Developer - Visual C# MVP]

Anyone can explain me in a few words what is reverse engineering
(benefficts) and how can i do that?

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

Generally, it's an attempt to turn machine code (be it native CPU

instructions, Java byte code or MSIL) back to source code in some
programming language.

Or turning source code back to for example UML in the context of
modeling tools such as Visio.



Mattias

 

[Lars-Inge Tønnessen [VJ# MVP]]

Or turning source code back to for example UML in the context of

modeling tools such as Visio.

How do I get that to work?

I have never gotten any good UML models out of VISIOs revers engineering
tool yet. But I'm very lousy with it comes to VISIO. I like better to write
code.

I would really like to know how to do this, so I can "document" my code
better. )


Regards,
Lars-Inge Tønnessen