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Closed 10 years ago.
Can anyone recommend a free VBScript compiler?
You can do it for free with Vbsedit
VBScript is an interpreted language, not a compiled one. If you want to make a binary executable out of your VBScript code, you will need to port it to Visual Basic or Visual Basic .NET first. As for free compilers, Visual Basic .NET Express edition is available for free.
If you're trying to compile VBScript in order to hide something like a password, you're probably doing it wrong.
This compiler is $49: http://www.xuebrothers.net/sh/sh.htm and has a free demo.
Any compiler for this language promptly turns it back into the plaintext script before running it, so you lose the benefit of obscurity against any determined attacker. If you absolutely won't pay for any of the compilers, your best bet might be to re-write it using one of the free visual studio basic variants, and compile that.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/
Yes... you can definitely use VbsEdit.. download evaluation copy from http://www.vbsedit.com/
OR
save the file as .vbs file and try to execute the same with double clicking the file... debugging is little tough job...
Could use Mono. It's free. Also available for Linux, Mac, as well as PC.
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Closed 11 years ago.
As a learning exercise I'm building a basic scientific computation environment based on .NET. I'd like the GUI of the app to be much like matlab, in that I have an interactive window, an objects window and the facility to spawn visualisation windows. Intellisense in my command window would be very nice. It seems visual studio itself could almost be used in this manner, is this a viable option? Creating the visualisations within the VS environment seems like the only hurdle. What could I do here?
Eclipse is also an option I suppose but I'd prefer to stay totally with .NET if possible.
Any other suggestions?
You could take a look at MonoDevelop here to provide some help. It is open-source and one of the nicer IDEs.
You could also build something based on GEdit, as it is very pluggable.
Those are the two tools, plus the CLI that I use for .NET development, but I am entirely on Linux/Unix using the Mono tools.
Hope that helps!
I've just discovered VSlab. Its specific to F#, however its a good demonstration of what I would like to be able to do with my own DSL in terms of visualisation and an interactive editor.
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Closed 9 years ago.
Any cheap or free IDE's out there for VB6 programming? or is MS the only way to go?
Thanks.
VB6 is a Microsoft language and product, so they have the VB6 thing sewed up.
If you need the VB6 compiler, there's no alternative to the real Microsoft product. You can run it in command-line mode so I guess you could use any IDE.
If you have an MSDN subscription, you can download Visual Basic 6 free.
Otherwise try somewhere like eBay, although it's often surprisingly expensive. Although Microsoft said in September 09 there were still several million people using VB6, so maybe it's not that surprising.
Not that I know of for VB6.
VB .NET has Visual Basic Express Edition, though...
I don't know of a complete IDE, but MZ-Tools makes a great IDE addin for VBA/VB6 (and it's free).
Have you tried ebay? You may be able to pick up a genuine copy of VB6 for not a lot of money.
Not for VB6 (another answer mentions a .NET solution).
There used to be a Visual Basic 5 Control Creation Edition (CCE) that was freely redistributable, but my feeble attempts at searching have failed to find it; a non-Microsoft site purporting to have it has removed it and replaced it with a text file complaining of link abuse, and Microsoft themselves don't distribute it anymore, sadly.
The CCE can't be used to make executables, as hinted at by its name.
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Closed 10 years ago.
I'm into hacking challenges (like rankk.com) and some of the challenges require disassembly and little modifications of PE files.
I'm looking for a disassembler/debugger that is able to dump the strings, walk the assembler code and allow modifications.
My knowledge in this field is very limited so I'm looking for something relatively easy to use and preferably free.
IDA, nothing else comes even close.
IDA Pro
I like OllyDbg. (with a good companion :)
IDA Pro has a nice graph for better understanding of the code flow and the disassembler is amazing. Although i use OllyDbg as JIT debugger and general debugger for MASM.
IDA also has a free version now of their previous version. For light or introductory reversing or getting started it's a great tool.
IDA Pro for common cases, SoftIce for special cases (for example when you need to reverse highly protected application, you can use special SoftIce plugins and so on). I was an experienced cracker in student years :)
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I'd like to build a pretty simple plug-in for Visual Studio, but I don't really know how this has to be done. Is this doable in (non-managed) C++?
I'd like to know what resources you'd recommend me.
DevExpress has a free plug-in called DXCore which provides some nice abstractions upon which to then build other plug-ins...you might look into that.
Do you really want to do it in unmanaged code? DevExpress has a nice free library to develop visual studio plugins but it's managed. This is what they use to develop Refactor and coderush
http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/DXCore/
It seems the underlying API is kind of messy. As far as I know this is the easiest way.
I've never tried, so I don't know about doing it in C++, but this website has loads of information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx/default.aspx
A good place to start would be this tutorial:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mgold/AddIns11292005015631AM/AddIns.aspx
The DXCore from DevExpress is a wonderful library for basing all sorts of plugins. Feel free to drop by the IDE Tools Forums and more specifically the DXCore plugin forum and ask for any help you might need. :)
I'm not so sure about unmanaged C++ but I know for certain that the DXCore supports Plugin creation in any managed language.
Found this MSDN tutorial: Creating Add-ins Using Visual C++. Thanks Matt.
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Closed 9 years ago.
Does anyone have any recommendations of tools that can be of assistance with moving literal values into resource files for localization?
I've used a resharper plugin called RGreatX but was wondering if there is anything else out there.
It's one heck of a long manual process for moving the strings across and think there must be a better way! RGreatX is OK but could be a bit slicker I feel.
Here's one:
http://www.codeplex.com/ResourceRefactoring
It'a actually a Microsoft "open source" Visual Studio(2005 and up) tool that integrates with the IDE. You can easily replace every occurence of a string with a ressource reference with a few clicks.
You may find Zeta Resource Editor useful too.
ReSharper itself (5.0+) now has support for localization which includes moving strings to resource files and highlighting localizabile strings.
Try Visual Localizer - you can batch-process whole code, select which strings may be localized and the tool will add them to a resource file and create a reference instead. Many other features easing localization are included.