Forgot to save Small Basic program - How do I recover it?

Question

So recently I made quite a long small basic program, but like an idiot, I forgot to save it. Instead of the improved program, I've got an older version of it which I had saved earlier. However, I ran the program before closing it so now I have a .exe file with the newer version.

Is there any way I could turn this .exe back into a sb file? Or is there some temp folder where I could find the program? I want to work on this program more, as I hadn't finished it and I was wondering if there was any way to recover it.

Answer 1

Not really I don't think so.

You can get something from the exe using ILSpy (google for it if you want to try this) but not the original code (it will be in C# or VB equivalent), it might look like this from which you could with a bit of work try to get some back, perhaps enough to remind you waht you did.

// _SmallBasicProgram
static void _Main()
{
	SmallBasicApplication.BeginProgram();
	_SmallBasicProgram.i = 1.0;
	while (Primitive.ConvertToBoolean(_SmallBasicProgram.i <= 10.0))
	{
		_SmallBasicProgram.list1 = Primitive.SetArrayValue(Microsoft.SmallBasic.Library.Math.GetRandomNumber(10.0), _SmallBasicProgram.list1, _SmallBasicProgram.i);
		_SmallBasicProgram.i += 1.0;
	}
	while (true)
	{
		_SmallBasicProgram.testmatch();
		TextWindow.ForegroundColor = "Red";
		TextWindow.WriteLine("There are " + _SmallBasicProgram.count + " matches.");
		TextWindow.ForegroundColor = "White";
		_SmallBasicProgram.i = 1.0;
		while (Primitive.ConvertToBoolean(_SmallBasicProgram.i <= 10.0))
		{
			TextWindow.WriteLine("List1= " + Primitive.GetArrayValue(_SmallBasicProgram.list1, _SmallBasicProgram.i) + " : List2= " + Primitive.GetArrayValue(_SmallBasicProgram.list2, _SmallBasicProgram.i));
			_SmallBasicProgram.i += 1.0;
		}
		Program.Delay(100.0);
	}
}
// _SmallBasicProgram

static void testmatch()
{
    _SmallBasicProgram.count = 0.0;
    _SmallBasicProgram.i = 1.0;
    while (Primitive.ConvertToBoolean(_SmallBasicProgram.i <= 10.0))
    {
        _SmallBasicProgram.list2 = Primitive.SetArrayValue(Microsoft.SmallBasic.Library.Math.GetRandomNumber(10.0), _SmallBasicProgram.list2, _SmallBasicProgram.i);
        if (Primitive.ConvertToBoolean(Primitive.GetArrayValue(_SmallBasicProgram.list1, _SmallBasicProgram.i) == Primitive.GetArrayValue(_SmallBasicProgram.list2, _SmallBasicProgram.i)))
        {
            _SmallBasicProgram.count += 1.0;
        }
        _SmallBasicProgram.i += 1.0;
    }
}

Answer 2

Take this as a lesson to save frequently. I got a good lesson like that in 1994. About 4 days after a strong earthquake I finally got back to programming and a strong aftershock hit that knocked my computer around (literally) and I lost about 5 hours of work. I even had a battery backup but that was no help. So from now on you will remember to save frequently.

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Sam Hobbs
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Answer 3

Thanks! I managed to get it back in VB and I'll work with that.