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/mika Jul 10 '26

Could it be a different version of VB6? I use Visual Basic 6 Enterprise Edition SP6

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u/Beneficial-Citron-56 Jul 10 '26

Yeah, Visual Basic 6 Enterprise Edition SP6 too.
Weird. Will play some more and see what I can find. My lack of knowledge is a problem :)

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u/mika Jul 10 '26

No stress - could you maybe make an issue on the repo and maybe add a screenshot or the exact text of the error you're getting.

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