A Visual Basic (VB) application which uses early binding with prior versions of the Reflection 14.X or Extra! X-treme 9.x Type Libraries, may display one of the following errors when attempting to build or run the project with Reflection Desktop 16.x or higher:
 

The VB References dialog may also display one of the following messages (where n.n is a version number):
 

NOTE: These symptoms do not occur with scripts and applications that access the Reflection or EXTRA! COM object using version-independent late binding CreateObject() calls and do not reference the type library information (such as constant enum names).

Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013579