Greg,


Recently we discovered that VB preprocessor directives
have an effect on reverse engineering a Visual Basic
Project (the VB IDE would cause problems).  When these
directives were removed reverse engineering went much
smoother.

I hope this may help,
Paul Cooley

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a user that is trying to reverse engineer a
> fairly large legacy
> Visual Basic project and is having problems. 
> Basically, she says her
> machine locks up after about 30 minutes of trying to
> perform the reverse
> engineer.  Here is some info from her:
> 
>
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> First attempted to perform the reverse engineering
> on a Windows NT system.
> Processor?         Pentium III
> Amount of RAM?     256MB
> OS Version?        Windows NT 4.0. service pack 6a
> Rose Version? Rational Suite 2001 on D drive with
> the patch per the SDS
>                                    Rose page
> (2001a04.02.292.005.exe...).
> VB Version?        6.0.a
> 
> Attempted to run reverse-engineering of code.  Rose
> indicates it is pulling
> in components
> to support VB, hits the main component, calls VB. 
> Task Manager shows
> Visual Basic running
> at 99%, chews up memory and locks up.  Explorer
> error pops up at any time,
> in or out of Rose.
> 
> Next attempted reverse engineering with Rose 2002
> and VB6.0a on an XP
> machine.
> Installation is quirky, but both items appear to run
> independently.
> 
> Attempted run of reverse-engineering tool of VB Code
> results in the same
> behavior
> as before.  Task manager applications tab on XP
> indicates
>                Rose is running
>                FlexIm is running
>                VB project is not responding.
> Pocesses tab on Task manager shows VB6.exe running
> 90% or greater on cpu &
> memory.
>
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> 
> Please let me know if anyone has experienced similar
> problems and any known
> possible solutions or workarounds.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Greg Young
> Software Design Support
> Rockwell Collins
> 
>
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