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Microsoft Visual Basic v1 through v6

• History of Visual Basic by George Mack
• Something Pretty Right: The history and legacy of Visual Basic by Ryan Lucas

Resources

• Using Visual Basic 6 (QUE): The entire book HTML-ized.

How-To’s

• StackOverflow - Your favorite VB6 tools and tips.
• StackOverflow - Detect file changes outside the VB6 IDE.

Communities

• Visual Basic Discord Server (Invite)

IDE

• Visual Basic Tools for Visual Studio
• CodeHelp Add-in 2.2
• AxTools CodeSMART 2013 for VB6
• Rubberduck add-in for VBE
• Rubberduck on GitHub
• MZ-Tools 8.0
• Zeus IDE
• ModernVB (GitHub): Updates the Visual Basic 6 IDE to look and feel more modern.
• Visual Studio Code VBA

Components

• Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0: Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 includes a new DataRepeater control and updated versions of the three previously released Visual Basic Power Packs, Line and Shape controls, the PrintForm Component and the Printer Compatibility Library.

Alternatives

Products with a goal of 100% compatibility...

• RAD Basic
• TwinBasic

Products that tend to be compared to VB6...

• DoyleSoft BASIC
• Jabaco

VB’s Little Sister (VBA)

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VB’s Little Brother (VBScript)

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Cool Projects

• ZoneStripper: Remove Zone.Identifier alternate data stream that identifies files as ‘from the internet’.
• VBCorLib - A framework that brings many of the powerful .NET classes to VB6.
• mp3decoder - Decoder implementation of MP3 audio in 100% VB.
• xFXJumpStart DHTML Menu Builder v4+ on GitHub
• [Krool (GitHub)]
  • VB Common Controls Replacement Library
  • VB FlexGrid Control
  • VB Multithread Library
• Vladimer Vissoultchev (GitHub)
  • VBLLVM (GitHub): LLVM bindings for VB6.
  • VbRtcc (GitHub): Runtime Tiny C Compiler for VB6.
  • ZipArchive (GitHub): A single-class pure VB6 library for zip with ASM speed.
  • VbAsyncSocket (GitHub): Simple and thin WinSock API wrappers for VB6.
  • ModernSubclassingThunk (GitHub): The Modern Subclassing Thunk (MST) for VB6.
• iCode (GitHub)
• VB6 Tracer (GitHub): Runtime tracer for the VB6 virtual machine.
• PdbExp (GitHub)
• Semi-VB-Decompiler
• TheProgrammingZone (Semi-VB-Decompiler)
• Semi-VB-Decompiler (GitHub)
• vb2glade
• VBCDeclFix: This Add-in allows to use Cdecl functions in VB6