Rubberduck: Experimental COM/reflection API is no longer exposed

[retailcoder]

The experimental COM/reflection API has been unavailable since the COM cleanup, apparently:

Now is probably a good time to review the design then.

[bclothier]

Actually the COM API has been moved to their library:

aka Rubberduck.API.dll/.tlb.

[retailcoder]

I had to manually browse to the tlb location in the install folder... is something off with the registration?

[bclothier]

The issue is with VBE, not with how we register our libraries. VBE has had exhibited strange behavior in how it choose to display libraries in a list and this has been observed even with Microsoft's own libraries such as shell32.dll.

For that reason, I'm inclined to close this as status-bydesign with the suggestion that the workaround is to use the upcoming reference explorer.

[retailcoder]

Agreed! I get this feeling many will even forget what the VBE's Project References dialog even looks like in a few weeks... I'd suggest we default the RD libraries to the pinned tab.