An open, cross-platform recreation of the Visual Basic 6 IDE. Alpha.

⚠️ HexIDE opens and runs real VB6 projects, and a save now gives back the file it read:
all 22 designer files VB6 itself ships survive a save byte for byte, and a form HexIDE
cannot give back opens read-only rather than being quietly rewritten. Keep a backup anyway:
that measure is Microsoft's own templates, not your project.
What a save changes

What's new: CHANGELOG.md

Which download?

• Windows x64: hexide-windows-amd64-setup.exe — installs for all users; includes .NET.
• hexide-<platform>-selfcontained.* — portable archive; includes .NET.
• hexide-<platform>.* — smaller, but needs the .NET 10 Runtime installed.

Download and run instructions, including Linux extraction and launch steps.

Nothing here is signed or notarised.
Windows shows a SmartScreen warning: More info → Run anyway.
macOS — extract in Terminal with tar -xzf <file>.tar.gz. Unpacking with Finder
instead applies a quarantine flag that an unsigned app cannot clear.
Linux self-contained still needs native libraries, including the distro's libX11, libICE, libSM, fontconfig and ICU.

An open, cross-platform recreation of the Visual Basic 6 IDE. Alpha.

⚠️ HexIDE opens and runs real VB6 projects, and a save now gives back the file it read:
all 22 designer files VB6 itself ships survive a save byte for byte, and a form HexIDE
cannot give back opens read-only rather than being quietly rewritten. Keep a backup anyway:
that measure is Microsoft's own templates, not your project.
What a save changes

What's new: CHANGELOG.md

Which download?

• Windows x64: hexide-windows-amd64-setup.exe — installs for all users; includes .NET.
• hexide-<platform>-selfcontained.* — portable archive; includes .NET.
• hexide-<platform>.* — smaller, but needs the .NET 10 Runtime installed.

Download and run instructions, including Linux extraction and launch steps.

Nothing here is signed or notarised.
Windows shows a SmartScreen warning: More info → Run anyway.
macOS — extract in Terminal with tar -xzf <file>.tar.gz. Unpacking with Finder
instead applies a quarantine flag that an unsigned app cannot clear.
Linux self-contained still needs native libraries, including the distro's libX11, libICE, libSM, fontconfig and ICU.

An open, cross-platform recreation of the Visual Basic 6 IDE. Alpha.

⚠️ HexIDE opens and runs real VB6 projects, and a save now gives back the file it read:
all 22 designer files VB6 itself ships survive a save byte for byte, and a form HexIDE
cannot give back opens read-only rather than being quietly rewritten. Keep a backup anyway:
that measure is Microsoft's own templates, not your project.
What a save changes

What's new: CHANGELOG.md

Which download?

• Windows x64: hexide-windows-amd64-setup.exe — installs for all users; includes .NET.
• hexide-<platform>-selfcontained.* — portable archive; includes .NET.
• hexide-<platform>.* — smaller, but needs the .NET 10 Runtime installed.

Download and run instructions, including Linux extraction and launch steps.

Nothing here is signed or notarised.
Windows shows a SmartScreen warning: More info → Run anyway.
macOS — extract in Terminal with tar -xzf <file>.tar.gz. Unpacking with Finder
instead applies a quarantine flag that an unsigned app cannot clear.
Linux self-contained still needs native libraries, including the distro's libX11, libICE, libSM, fontconfig and ICU.

An open, cross-platform recreation of the Visual Basic 6 IDE. Alpha.

⚠️ HexIDE opens and runs real VB6 projects, and a save now gives back the file it read:
21 of the 22 designer files VB6 itself ships survive a save byte for byte, and the one it
cannot — an ActiveX form — opens read-only rather than being quietly rewritten. Keep a backup
anyway: that measure is Microsoft's own templates, not your project.
What a save changes

What's new: CHANGELOG.md

Which download?

• hexide-<platform>-selfcontained.* — no prerequisites. Start here.
• hexide-<platform>.* — smaller, but needs the .NET 10 desktop runtime installed.

Nothing here is signed or notarised.
Windows shows a SmartScreen warning: More info → Run anyway.
macOS — extract in Terminal with tar -xzf <file>.tar.gz. Unpacking with Finder
instead applies a quarantine flag that an unsigned app cannot clear.
Linux self-contained still needs the distro's libX11, libICE, libSM and fontconfig.

An open, cross-platform recreation of the Visual Basic 6 IDE. Alpha.

⚠️ Saving is not yet round-trip faithful. A save can delete .frx binary companions and
rewrite class settings you never touched. Work on a copy — not on a project you care about.
Exactly what goes wrong

Which download?

• hexide-<platform>-selfcontained.* — no prerequisites. Start here.
• hexide-<platform>.* — smaller, but needs the .NET 10 desktop runtime installed.

Nothing here is signed or notarised.
Windows shows a SmartScreen warning: More info → Run anyway.
macOS — extract in Terminal with tar -xzf <file>.tar.gz. Unpacking with Finder
instead applies a quarantine flag that an unsigned app cannot clear.
Linux self-contained still needs the distro's libX11, libICE, libSM and fontconfig.