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I've been spoiled by Visual studio 2008 and Eclipse and have to do a little maintainence work on a VB6 app.
Does anyone know of an alternative/ updated IDE for VB6?
A rewrite is not an option I'm just fixing a couple of bugs and it's a big codebase.
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VB6 is probably still widely used, but companies migrate to VB.NET. Moreover VB6 is so easy to learn that you can start using it really fast with no previous experience.
Should you be worried? It is a well-known fact that all versions of Visual Basic from 1.0 to 6.0 were to be retired by Microsoft, by 2008. This means that the Visual Basic development environment and associated runtime environments (except for Visual Basic 6) are no longer supported.
I have never heard of an alternative IDE for Vb6. However, these two (free) VB6 add-ins are indispensable and will make your life easier - especially if there is a lot of code. They are equally effective for VBA in Microsoft Office.
MZ-Tools: provides a superb collection of IDE tools - finding unused variables, unused methods, a great "search all", code snippets. Written by Carlos J. Quintero, to whom I now owe hours and hours of time.
http://www.mztools.com/v3/mztools3.aspx
And SmartIndenter, which takes care of all the auto-indenting. It does one thing and it does it well.
http://www.oaltd.co.uk/Indenter/Default.htm
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