If you create a COMClass, I've noticed that the values in the XML Summary tag do not show in the object browser of VB6/VBA when you reference the resulting tlb file. Is there a way to have these values show up?
No, 12 years of IntelliSense evolution prevents this from working. The XML documentation comments generates an .xml file that IntelliSense can pick up.
In VB6/A, documentation is present in the type library with the helpstring attribute. For example:
[
odl,
uuid(2334D2B1-713E-11CF-8AE5-00AA00C00905),
hidden,
dual,
nonextensible,
oleautomation
]
interface IVBDataObject : IDispatch {
[id(0x00000001), helpstring("Clears all data and formats in a DataObject object."), helpcontext(0x00033693)]
HRESULT Clear();
// etc...
};
Getting the same from your [ComVisible] class library requires the [Description] attribute. Note this answer for a quirk about the way it works for properties.