Running an exe from resources in VB .NET?

[Keygen_Dr.]

Topic title says it all. Is it possible to write a code for it in VB .NET...

But i don't wanna extract it to some place. I wanna run it from resources only.

Edited April 9, 2009 by Keygen_Dr.

[Killboy]

90% of the time this won't work. The exe will have to be extracted to memory, and this memory address is different from its imagebase.

Most exes don't have a relocation table so Windows can't adjust the code/data to work at the new address.

You could try allocating memory at the address of the imagebase, but chances are high your app and the one youre trying to load have the same image base, ie. 400000 which about 95% of all apps use.

Let's not even talk about the VB.NET part lol

[Loveless]

Actually, with VB.net apps this is quite feasible due to the fact that VB.net apps come with relocations, and thus I'm sure you could rebase it to whatever memory you like, making way for the exe you are trying to load via resources

[metr0]

(Malware detector: positive) *cough*

If you want to run .NET files from memory, Loveless' post is sufficient, if you want to run non-.NET files without relocations from memory, create a new process, unmap and re-map it and you're done as well.