Any cheap or free IDE's out there for VB6 programming? [closed]

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Any cheap or free IDE's out there for VB6 programming? or is MS the only way to go?

Thanks.

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VB6 is a Microsoft language and product, so they have the VB6 thing sewed up.

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If you need the VB6 compiler, there's no alternative to the real Microsoft product. You can run it in command-line mode so I guess you could use any IDE.

• If you have an MSDN subscription, you can download Visual Basic 6 free.
• Otherwise try somewhere like eBay, although it's often surprisingly expensive. Although Microsoft said in September 09 there were still several million people using VB6, so maybe it's not that surprising.

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Not that I know of for VB6.

VB .NET has Visual Basic Express Edition, though...

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I don't know of a complete IDE, but MZ-Tools makes a great IDE addin for VBA/VB6 (and it's free).

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Have you tried ebay? You may be able to pick up a genuine copy of VB6 for not a lot of money.

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Not for VB6 (another answer mentions a .NET solution).

There used to be a Visual Basic 5 Control Creation Edition (CCE) that was freely redistributable, but my feeble attempts at searching have failed to find it; a non-Microsoft site purporting to have it has removed it and replaced it with a text file complaining of link abuse, and Microsoft themselves don't distribute it anymore, sadly.

The CCE can't be used to make executables, as hinted at by its name.