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A little late but mostly in the same boat with you, curious as to what you're using for a VM (W7 here). Sounds like a relatively massive project to be that pain

by dole 7y ago

A little late but mostly in the same boat with you, curious as to what you're using for a VM (W7 here). Sounds like a relatively massive project to be that painful to navigate but for most smaller purposes, the IDE still is at least serviceable. I've had Chrome (or the last versions available to be installed on W7 anyway) drop a bunch of startup resident crap that kills VM performance/network until cleaned up, and the scrolling issue (Ulli's VBMouseWheel?) doesn't sound typical, but you did say "subjective." Installing a full-text search app helped speed up searching through our codebase via VB6 IDE or VS2008's TFS Source Control Explorer, but you've probably been through most of this song and dance already.

kerng 7y ago
This is so interesting, I had no idea there are still such big VB6 projects out there. Is this related to a particular industry? Too bad Microsoft didn't open source it.
WorldMaker 7y ago
The VM originated as the physical machine of a previous developer and for a number of reasons is stuck at XP, hence a lot of the reasons it needs to be network isolated at this point. Also, because it is from an ancient image I don't want to break it because I doubt we could rebuild the ecosystem from scratch, it feels like it is stuck in VirtualBox, which is I think a large part of the slowdown because VirtualBox doesn't just directly support Hyper-V-based acceleration like just about everyone else finally does. I really need to convert it directly to a Hyper-V VM, but I don't have the free hard-drive space at the moment to have multiple VM copies around, haven't had the budget time, and I'm not sure I trust some of the available tools. I'm using the last build of Git for Windows I was able to get to install on XP, and I pray that there isn't a compatibility break as right now a shared worktree-less folder as "remote" to the VM internal repo is the only way I'm getting code in/out of the VM. I'm generally happy with VS Code outside of the VM for full text search, but VS Code can't build "Find All References" and "Go To/Peek Definition" maps, and that's the biggest itch that I miss, and VB6 IDE never had a good "Find All References" because it predates that tool in VS by like half a decade at least, and more than a decade before "Peek" sub-editors came about.

by dole 7y ago

kerng 7y ago

This is so interesting, I had no idea there are still such big VB6 projects out there. Is this related to a particular industry? Too bad Microsoft didn't open source it.

WorldMaker 7y ago

The VM originated as the physical machine of a previous developer and for a number of reasons is stuck at XP, hence a lot of the reasons it needs to be network isolated at this point. Also, because it is from an ancient image I don't want to break it because I doubt we could rebuild the ecosystem from scratch, it feels like it is stuck in VirtualBox, which is I think a large part of the slowdown because VirtualBox doesn't just directly support Hyper-V-based acceleration like just about everyone else finally does. I really need to convert it directly to a Hyper-V VM, but I don't have the free hard-drive space at the moment to have multiple VM copies around, haven't had the budget time, and I'm not sure I trust some of the available tools. I'm using the last build of Git for Windows I was able to get to install on XP, and I pray that there isn't a compatibility break as right now a shared worktree-less folder as "remote" to the VM internal repo is the only way I'm getting code in/out of the VM. I'm generally happy with VS Code outside of the VM for full text search, but VS Code can't build "Find All References" and "Go To/Peek Definition" maps, and that's the biggest itch that I miss, and VB6 IDE never had a good "Find All References" because it predates that tool in VS by like half a decade at least, and more than a decade before "Peek" sub-editors came about.