Alternative IDE for VB6 and VBA [closed]

Question

I've been spoiled by Visual studio 2008 and Eclipse and have to do a little maintainence work on a VB6 app.

Does anyone know of an alternative/ updated IDE for VB6?

A rewrite is not an option I'm just fixing a couple of bugs and it's a big codebase.

Answer 1

I have never heard of an alternative IDE for Vb6. However, these two (free) VB6 add-ins are indispensable and will make your life easier - especially if there is a lot of code. They are equally effective for VBA in Microsoft Office.

MZ-Tools: provides a superb collection of IDE tools - finding unused variables, unused methods, a great "search all", code snippets. Written by Carlos J. Quintero, to whom I now owe hours and hours of time.

http://www.mztools.com/v3/mztools3.aspx

And SmartIndenter, which takes care of all the auto-indenting. It does one thing and it does it well.

http://www.oaltd.co.uk/Indenter/Default.htm

Answer 2

CodeHelp Add-In 2.2 Amazing VB6 plugin to help organize and coding.

http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=62468&lngWId=1