I can think of a couple of items right off the bat..
- no mouse wheel support
- code navigation shortcut keys non-existant
- ide crashed all the time
- I can't think of anything else really because it's been so long I was forced to want to kill myself (translation: It's been a while since I had to use the VB6 toolset)
I would argue you never spent any serious time in the VB6 ide, because it was (is) complete garbage. The fact that people still use it proves to me that those people simply don't know any better.
And if you throw the argument that VB6 is great for just banging out windows apps that work, Delphi is a far better choice.
I've spent a significant amount of time in VB6 back in the day and built many large and complicated apps several of which are still in use today (including a mission critical 911 center app). The IDE was pretty awesome with features that are unmatched to this day (COM library indirection for instance). Debugging was super quick, Edit and Continue worked great.
I still have to use it regularly (with service pack 6), and it isn't that bad. Of course any modern IDE is far superior, but it hasn't crashed on me, there's a mouse scroll add-in, and it doesn't get in the way.
The upside of the VB6 IDE, used on a recent computer is that it's amazingly fast and snappy (it was meant to run on 1998's PC's).
That's what I kept telling myself when I had to work on a legacy 600k LoC VB codebase last year. If you ever find yourself in the same situation, use the first paragraph as a mantra to keep your sanity.
I can think of a couple of items right off the bat..
- no mouse wheel support - code navigation shortcut keys non-existant - ide crashed all the time - I can't think of anything else really because it's been so long I was forced to want to kill myself (translation: It's been a while since I had to use the VB6 toolset)
I would argue you never spent any serious time in the VB6 ide, because it was (is) complete garbage. The fact that people still use it proves to me that those people simply don't know any better.
And if you throw the argument that VB6 is great for just banging out windows apps that work, Delphi is a far better choice.