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[[MPGH]Mayion]

Hi,
I'm trying to read dll files by opening them in a Textbox/RTB but it don't work, It only shows "MZ" text.
Tried to change the encoding to: "Default, UTF7/8 & Unicode" still the same.
I just want to read the inside text of the dll like Notepad/++ do.

Thanks.

[abuckau907]

.dll files are compiled code (machine language instructions)..NOT plain-text source code

what do you hope to accomplish by viewing compiled code?

[[MPGH]Mayion]

.dll files are compiled code (machine language instructions)..NOT plain-text source code

what do you hope to accomplish by viewing compiled code?

I don't want to decompile it.
I'm creating a simple program to view dll text for myself, To check for advertisement & stuff.

[abuckau907]

so post code and ask a question...

1. read all bytes of file
2. output each byte to textbox

where is your confusion?

[[MPGH]Mayion]

so post code and ask a question...

1. read all bytes of file
2. output each byte to textbox

where is your confusion?

I use My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText to read the file.
Changed ReadAllText to ReadAllBytes
But I can't import the bytes/text to textbox.

Dim ReadDll = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllBytes(
            "C:\*****")

[abuckau907]

It's do to with there being bytes that are == 0 inside the file..normally a 0 byte signifies the end of string. To my surprise, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString() actually goes through the whole byte array, despite any 0's, and returns a string the same length as the byte array. If you debug with the IDE, you can check the value of the string returned and it's the full string.
So...the problem is with the text box --> as soon as it encounters a 0 byte it assumes it's the end of the string.

To fix, after reading the bytes from file into an array, I loop over the array and change any 0 bytes to the ascii value of '?'.

code:


seems right