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Re:Microsoft ends support for Windows XP and Office 2003 by nyrina on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:39AM (#7553295)
What did you use to decompile them into a project that was actually good enough to read through, change the needed things and compile it again?
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Re:Microsoft ends support for Windows XP and Office 2003 by CodeCube on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @10:36AM (#7553637)
I just used Reflector, which, at the time was free. There were a few issues that I had to tweak since reflector didn't do well with things like switch statements ... but for the most part it wasn't too bad. I was able to discern most of the munged variable names just by looking at the code and being familiar with the domain of the company.
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