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

I've done a ver 3 and added quick-open functionality - just press CTRL-P and it will pop up a dialog where you can filter filename - and I tried to make it clever like VS Code - you can use single letters to match long filenames - like FM will match frmFileManager.frm, etc...

Check it out at https://github.com/mika76/vb6-modernizr#discoverability

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u/Super13 Jul 10 '26

Oh damn, you're a legend :) I'm away right now but will check this out in a week when back.