VBA: adding a reference to Microsoft VBA Extensibility

[itUMLAN]

I want to compare the actual source code of two .ivb files. Since they are binary, What should do the trick is exporting all files in my .ivb: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39293881/code-compare-for-vba-source-code

However, it says to "add a reference to Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility 5.3."

How do I do this exaclty?

the closest thing I've come to find is this for Excel: http://www.exceltoolset.com/setting-a-reference-to-the-vba-extensibility-library-by-code/

but it doesn't seem to be working for Inventor.

[udo.huebner · Accepted solution]

You want to know how to exactly add a reference to "Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility 5.3" ?

1. Start Inventor and then start VBA Environment using ALT+11

2. Add Reference

By the way, the linked code from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39293881/code-compare-for-vba-source-code is intended to use with AutoCAD

[udo.huebner · Accepted solution]

If you change 

Set vbe = ThisDrawing.Application.vbe

to

Set vbe = ThisApplication.vbe

in Inventor, the linked code above works as expected. 

[Jon.Dean]

Hi @itUMLAN ,

This forum thread was escalated to Autodesk Technical Support but I see Udo has answered your question in the forum.

Do you need further help or did Udo's answer to you, help you resolve this issue?

Cheers

Jon.

[itUMLAN]

@Jon.Dean I misclicked on the support button, and I could not undo it. Thank you for checking it.

@udo.huebnerthank you for the solution ! It works. Brillliant, we have been looking for this for a long time.