<story><title>Decompiling Hyper-V Manager to rebuild it from source</title><url>https://awakecoding.com/posts/decompiling-hyper-v-manager-to-rebuild-it-from-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magnat</author><text>&amp;gt; Even if we&amp;#x27;ve managed to rebuild and patch Hyper-V Manager from source, this is not enough for a real community project to take place. As much as I would like to just upload the decompiled source code to GitHub to start making significant changes to it, there&amp;#x27;s no legal standing for this project&lt;p&gt;I did almost exactly the same thing with Microsoft Reporting Services &amp;#x2F; ReportViewer several years ago, but decided to go a step further and published whole thing on a GitHub and uploaded packages for .NET Core&amp;#x2F;5&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;8 to NuGet - both platform controlled by Microsoft.&lt;p&gt;Both repo and packages are still up. Only legal inquires came from other companies asking if they can really use it. For reasons I cannot fathom, Microsoft MVPs and community managers direct anyone asking for .NET Core version of ReportViewer to my recompiled package and sources, with links all over Microsoft&amp;#x27;s forums, reddit and Q&amp;amp;A sites. GitHub analytics shows some visitors come via direct links from docs.microsoft.com.&lt;p&gt;I guess Microsoft just doesn&amp;#x27;t care. Hell, they allow scripts for one-click product activation bypass to be hosted on GitHub.</text></comment>
<story><title>Decompiling Hyper-V Manager to rebuild it from source</title><url>https://awakecoding.com/posts/decompiling-hyper-v-manager-to-rebuild-it-from-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nuzzerino</author><text>&amp;gt; Even if we&amp;#x27;ve managed to rebuild and patch Hyper-V Manager from source, this is not enough for a real community project to take place. As much as I would like to just upload the decompiled source code to GitHub to start making significant changes to it, there&amp;#x27;s no legal standing for this project. I can only go as far as streamlining the process of decompilation such that others can experiment making changes locally.&lt;p&gt;I don’t know what I’m missing here but something about this whole idea rubs me the wrong way. Who in their right mind is going to do this in a production environment where there is no apparent possibility to have a shared repository for the updates? And no possibility of any support or warranty (for what it’s worth). It’s worth about the price of whatever clicks the blog post generated.&lt;p&gt;It’s not like the software is that old. I don’t blame him for disliking the powershell interface but this isn’t the answer.</text></comment>