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From reading this group, it seems several people agree that the TLE which comes with Borland Builder (I have BCB6) is full of bugs, and pretty much junk. Are there any alternatives, besides from manually editing IDL files and using MIDL? It seems like someone would have made a replacement/better TLE by now, since they have been around for years, and Borland's has been bad for years (from what I've read). So far I haven't found any on-line, freeware, shareware, commericial, or otherwise.

I don't even see that Microsoft has such a thing, either a TLB editor or IDL editor. I have MS VC++ (6.0) but it looks like they only auto-generate IDL files while/as you create a COM project in the IDE. I guess I might have to create a stub project in MS VC++ just to get the TLB file. I don't use it very often though, so trying to do that with the MS IDE could be a pain.

Isn't there a stand-alone TLB (or even better, IDL) file editor?

If I decide to manually edit/create IDL files, is the MIDL compiler going to be a pain? What command-line options are standard, if any? I tried using "MIDL <IDL file>" but just got an error about missing "cl.exe" and haven't looked into that any further.