Opening a DLL in Visual Basic

[jodie]

Hi,
I would like to know if there is a way to open up a DLL in Visual Basic. I don't really know if I have the Source code anymore, but I have the DLL file and I want to open it up in Visual Basic so I can see the code. Is this possible?I right clicked on the DLL and did Open with ...chose Visual Basic but it gives me an error ".dll could not be loaded". Also when I did this after that .dll file's icon changed, now it looks like a text file with some graph's picture on the left hand side..but it is still a DLL file.

please help.
thanks
Jodie

 

[strongm]

You cannot opn a compiled file (DLL, EXE, OCX or whatever) in the IDE. You need the original source code.

As for the icon change, you almost certainly have changed the file association for the file type doing the 'Open With..." trick.