Decompile MS Access 97 MDE

[Douglas J. Steele]

There's no way to decompile an MDE.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele

<leslie...@algx.com> wrote in message
news:1614c01c294d3$a2b6e260$8df82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA02...
> I need to decompile an Access 97 MDE file. I tried
> several things according to MS articles but to no avail.
>
> I tried the following:
> 1) The documentation says I should be able to save the
> file as a new name and change the project name and this
> should decompile it. My project name is grey-ed out.
>
> 2) The documentation says I should be able to import a
> module from an MDE file but when I try to import into a
> new DB, the module name is grey.
>
> Any help?

[Philip Matthews]

So, if someone has ever lost a source file (mdb) for
Access, they are simply SOL? I have the exact same
problem existing right now where my PC crashed and I lost
a few files that I had just recently created and never got
to back them up. I did deliver an MDE file that has most
of the code, but the code is compiled and can't be viewed
or edited.

I invested a desent amount of time for a days work into
this project. If there is any kind of way to be able to
get the code out of binary format to readable VBA code,
that would be great. Are you absolutely sure that there
is no way at all to do this, even with all the special
tools that Microsoft has out there to help users who end
up falling into this situation? Please say that somebody
can help!

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