> This isn't a bug, it's behaving exactly as intended, because accessing the components of a locked project from the VBIDE Extensibility API would throw an exception.
However with recent-ish internal `ITypeLib` API capabilities, Rubberduck is gaining access to locked projects' modules (and their public members) loaded in the IDE, and the plan is to get the *Code Explorer* to populate without even needing to parse anything.
Side note, the new "Ignore Project" feature addresses the exact opp