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Development doesn't live in the IDE alone. Here, you can download tools and utilities to test your code, to analyze assemblies, and to make your life as a developer easier.
Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0This toolkit helps you bring the power of .NET to your existing Visual Basic 6 applications, by allowing them to display .NET WinForms from within the same application. Instead of upgrading the entire code base, these applications can now be extended one form at a time. The goal is a phased upgrade, with production releases at the end of each iteration containing both Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET forms running in the same Visual Basic 6 .exe process.
Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 is a free plug-in that enables Visual Basic developers to simplify and re-structure source code, making it easier to read and less costly to maintain. Refactor! supports more than 15 individual refactoring features, including operations like Reorder Parameters, Extract Method, Encapsulate Field, and Create Overload.
Visual Basic Snippet EditorAre you eager to produce your own Visual Basic Code Snippets but prefer not to think in terms of angle brackets? The Visual Basic Snippet Editor is a Windows Forms application with UI for creating, editing, and testing Visual Basic code snippets. You can specify snippet code and metadata (for example, title, author, description, keyboard shortcut), replacement variables, and referenced assemblies. You can preview your snippet as it will appear when inserted into the code window, and you can even test whether it will compile.