Visual Studio 6 tips and tricks [closed]

Question

Some of us would invariably have to support 'legacy' code using Microsoft's Visual Studio 6.0 IDEs which - although opinions would differ - are generally regarded to be less user friendly compared to the later incarnations of the Visual Studio series of IDEs.

So I'd like to hear about some of your best hidden/poorly documented IDE features (could be for either C++ or VB). As is the usual practice one feature per post, please.

Answer 1

Last time I had to use VB6, I wanted to jump out of my skin in anger because the scroll wheel on my mouse, which literally works with every other program in Windows, didn't work. This has something to do with the age of VB6 and how Microsoft has changed scroll wheel functionality over the years.

This guy wrote a program to make it work.

(and it looks like in the years since Microsoft made a fix as well)

Answer 2

For VB6, MZ-Tools is a fantastic free add-in. My favorite features are its find feature and its ability to find all callers of a given routine with a click of the button. It has several other features as well, several of which I've found helpful on occasion.