GetDeclaredTypeProgId

Returns the COM ProgID associated with a declared type, resolved at compile time.

Syntax: GetDeclaredTypeProgId(Of T )() As String

T
required The type to query for. Typically a coclass declared with the CoClassId attribute or imported from a type library.

The ProgID is the human-readable name (Application.Object, Scripting.Dictionary, …) that matches T’s CLSID in the registry. The lookup happens at compile time and the result is baked into the generated code as a string literal — there is no run-time call.

Returns an empty string if the type has no associated ProgID.

Example 

Dim Id As String = GetDeclaredTypeProgId(Of MyApp.Document)()
Debug.Print Id                       ' "MyApp.Document"

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