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Where I can download VB6.0 english version？ Need one now but couldn't find on the web.

help~please~~~~

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Short answer: Microsoft no longer supports or publishes the Visual Basic 6 IDE as a current product, although the VB6 runtime files needed to run existing apps are maintained for supported Windows releases. (learn.microsoft.com)

As noted, that makes finding a clean, official English IDE download difficult. As warned, avoid unofficial/pirated packages — VB6 was never a free public download and using unlicensed copies carries legal and security risks. For legitimate access to archived Microsoft media, organizations normally use licensed archives or subscriber portals that provide older products to entitled customers. (learn.microsoft.com)

Practical path for maintaining VB6 apps without risking the host OS: keep the VB6 IDE and any legacy toolchain inside an isolated virtual machine (snapshot before changes), install the official Service Pack 6 and the Microsoft runtime rollup for the SP6 extended files, and only redistribute the supported runtime files listed by Microsoft. Apply the cumulative runtime update from Microsoft and register any missing ActiveX controls from an elevated prompt. (support.microsoft.com)

Registering legacy OCX controls on 64‑bit Windows often requires the 32‑bit regsvr32 from SysWOW64 (run an elevated prompt). Example commands:

# register a 32-bit OCX on 64-bit Windows
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\regsvr32.exe "C:\Path\To\MSCOMCTL.OCX"

# register a 64-bit OCX
C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe "C:\Path\To\YourControl.ocx"

Follow Microsoft guidance for regsvr32 error troubleshooting (elevated prompt, correct tool for bitness, check dependencies). (support.microsoft.com)

If new development or long‑term maintenance is intended, migrate to modern, supported tooling (Visual Studio Community or later .NET-based approaches) rather than relying on the unsupported IDE; Microsoft documents migration resources and modern Visual Studio editions for current development. (visualstudio.microsoft.com)

Summary: do not rely on random web copies; use licensed media or official subscriber channels if you legitimately own a license, run legacy tools in a VM, apply SP6/runtime rollups, and prefer migration to supported tooling where possible.

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q2, requests like this can get you banned from almost every forum site I know of as your request is illiciting illegal behavior. Meaning that it is still illegal to download "free" copies of VB6. Now I know as the rest of us do that you don't want to do anything illegal so you have a few choices. One is to go over to nextag.com and search for any of the following...

Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise
Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise

Visual Studio 6.0 Professional
Visual Basic 6.0 Professional

You can also try ebay and or your friends (yahoo, google, ask, answers, bing) but I would suggest you add the word buy or purchase to your queries...

And Finally, purchase the MSDN subscription from M$ and then from M$ you can download any of the versions I noted above.

Good Luck

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sorry~~~~~~~~~I'll never do it agian~~~

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VB6 is probably no longer available, but VB-Express 2008 can be downloaded from here

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Left open hoping piracy would not be suggested. It was.

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