[QUESTION] Making a generator

[insignia96]

Okay,

What I want to do is make a sort of program generator. An executable that will have you fill in some shit then click a button and it will spit out an executable configured with the settings you entered.

Like the GMPH Generator only different and written in VB or VB.NET.

Thanks, Insignia

[Tenni-T]

You forgot the question? :P

[insignia96]

The Question is: How can i do this?

[Cephalopod]

Never looked into it myself but google "patching"

[Apoc]

No. You want to google dynamic compilation in VB.NET.

I have a compiler lib laying somewhere around here. (Makes it easy, just instantiate the compiler class, and feed it some source code to compile, set some options, and out goes the exe) I'll see if I can find it.

[suicidity]

What you're looking for is CodeDom.

Basically off the top of my head it's something like the following..

            Dim vbCompile As VBCodeProvider = New VBCodeProvider
            Dim options As CompilerParameters = New CompilerParameters
            options.GenerateExecutable = True : options.GenerateInMemory = True
            options.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.dll") : options.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.Drawing.dll") : options.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.Windows.Forms.dll") : options.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll")

            Dim cr As CompilerResults = vbCompile.CompileAssemblyFromFile(options, ##FILENAMEPATH##)

            If cr.Errors.Count > 0 Then
                Dim ce As CompilerError
                For Each ce In cr.Errors
                    If Not ce.IsWarning Then ' Throw an error ; Cheap way of doing it and I check if it's a warning or not but you don't have to.
                Next ce
                Return False
            Else
                ' Success
                Return True
            End If

That should work, just put in what ever you need; Then feed it the file. Or optionally you can use a CompileAssemblyFrom#### for different methods.

[insignia96]

Thanks guys! If u can find that Apoc that would be Great and suicidity i'll try that code.