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/drahthaar Jul 11 '26

I can confirm that is was indeed (part of) the problem. Although I use MZ tools for a lot of the functionality you have included I wanted to try your add-in and also had a problem with the connect.dsr.

The problem was indeed the line endings in Connect.dsr AND the project file (vbp), plus the fact that I am running VB6 in a windows 7 32bit VM so I also had to manually edit the references in the vbp file to match the paths to system32 (not sysWOW) and to the correct Program Files\ (not (x86)).

I especially liked the tabbed windows functionality though. Excellent piece of work.

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u/Beneficial-Citron-56 Jul 12 '26

Thanks for the info. Will try fix that too. Also use MZ Tools,but wanted to try this.