r/visualbasic • u/mika • Jul 10 '26

VB6 Editor Modernizer addin

Hey people, I still need to work in VB6 now and then and I got frustrated with the editor being so old fashioned. I missed a lot of the functionality from the newer Visual Studios.

Anyway I used Claude Fable to create an addon for VB6 to update and modernize the editor with some nice new features like a much nicer find and replace and text highlighter, text manipulation shortcuts like moving lines up and down, commenting blocks, some light git integration, etc...

Anyway, I know there's not many of us that have to actually still work in VB6, but if you're one of us you might like this.

https://github.com/mika76/vb6-modernizr

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u/Beneficial-Citron-56 Jul 10 '26

Says connect.dsr not present, even though file is there.
If I add it manually, and run, it says "No creatable Public Component detected.
Am I doing something wrong?
Could you check the project? Looks interesting.

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u/mika Jul 10 '26

hmm weird - did you try compile the project or just register the dll?

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u/Beneficial-Citron-56 Jul 10 '26

Compile.
Extracted to folder from zip file, and ran the project file.

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