Hi All,
I've been advised to use option strict. I've tried to read up on this, all i
can find is that it...
"disallows implicit narrowing conversions"
This kinda makes sense - Means I have to explicitly cast or convert data
when comparing/setting two different data types right?
Is there any more to it than this? What are the benefits of using option
strict?
Regards,
Simon.
Nov 18 '05
12  1538 
Great point. Let me give an example, from my real-life experience. I came to
work for this company a year and a half ago, and the guy that was directly
underneath me had taught himself VB.Net coming from a VB/ASP background. He
didn't use Option Strict. He had private fields that were integers exposed
via public properties that were strings. Imagine the difficulty tracing down
an issue with a non-integer string value being used to set the value of the
Integer field. Data types are important, moreso as the bigger and more
complex the app becomes. Making sure that your data types are correct not
only speeds up runtime performance, but can prevent some hard-to-identify
errors from happening as well.
--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
I get paid good money to
solve puzzles for a living
"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote in message
news:ur******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Option Strict also "disallows late binding".
Late binding is when the application doesn't know until run time what an
object's true type is. This causes more overhead to your application and
opens the door to errors.
Not allowing late binding (and therefore enforcing early binding) means
that all objects must know their type at design time, because of this, the
IntelliSense in VS.NET tells you what class members are allowed on the
object.
"Simon Harris" <to***********@ makes-you-fat.com> wrote in message
news:ux******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl... Hi All,
I've been advised to use option strict. I've tried to read up on this,
all i can find is that it...
"disallows implicit narrowing conversions"
This kinda makes sense - Means I have to explicitly cast or convert data
when comparing/setting two different data types right?
Is there any more to it than this? What are the benefits of using option
strict?
Regards,
Simon.
So all of us agree that Option Strict/Option Explicit are good things ..
then why the f*** doesn't everyone use it?
Atleast in Whidbey, they should make the default behavior to enforce those,
and overridable somehow. Overridable because there is still plenty of bad
code we need to live with.
- Sahil Malik
You can reach me thru my blog at http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik
"Kevin Spencer" <ks******@takem pis.com> wrote in message
news:Oj******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Great point. Let me give an example, from my real-life experience. I came
to work for this company a year and a half ago, and the guy that was directly
underneath me had taught himself VB.Net coming from a VB/ASP background.
He didn't use Option Strict. He had private fields that were integers exposed
via public properties that were strings. Imagine the difficulty tracing
down an issue with a non-integer string value being used to set the value of
the Integer field. Data types are important, moreso as the bigger and more
complex the app becomes. Making sure that your data types are correct not
only speeds up runtime performance, but can prevent some hard-to-identify
errors from happening as well.
--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
.Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
I get paid good money to
solve puzzles for a living
"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote in message
news:ur******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Option Strict also "disallows late binding".
Late binding is when the application doesn't know until run time what an
object's true type is. This causes more overhead to your application
and opens the door to errors.
Not allowing late binding (and therefore enforcing early binding) means
that all objects must know their type at design time, because of this, the
IntelliSense in VS.NET tells you what class members are allowed on the
object.
"Simon Harris" <to***********@ makes-you-fat.com> wrote in message
news:ux******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl... Hi All,
I've been advised to use option strict. I've tried to read up on this,
all i can find is that it...
"disallows implicit narrowing conversions"
This kinda makes sense - Means I have to explicitly cast or convert
data when comparing/setting two different data types right?
Is there any more to it than this? What are the benefits of using
option strict?
Regards,
Simon.
> Atleast in Whidbey, they should make the default behavior to enforce
those, and overridable somehow. Overridable because there is still plenty of bad
code we need to live with.
You're preaching to the choir here, Sahil. I've been telling MS to turn it
ON by default for several years now.
--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
I get paid good money to
solve puzzles for a living
"Sahil Malik" <co************ *****@nospam.co m> wrote in message
news:O1******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P10.phx.gbl... So all of us agree that Option Strict/Option Explicit are good things ..
then why the f*** doesn't everyone use it?
Atleast in Whidbey, they should make the default behavior to enforce
those, and overridable somehow. Overridable because there is still plenty of bad
code we need to live with.
- Sahil Malik
You can reach me thru my blog at
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik
"Kevin Spencer" <ks******@takem pis.com> wrote in message
news:Oj******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Great point. Let me give an example, from my real-life experience. I
came to work for this company a year and a half ago, and the guy that was
directly underneath me had taught himself VB.Net coming from a VB/ASP
background. He didn't use Option Strict. He had private fields that were integers
exposed via public properties that were strings. Imagine the difficulty tracing
down an issue with a non-integer string value being used to set the value of
the Integer field. Data types are important, moreso as the bigger and more
complex the app becomes. Making sure that your data types are correct
not only speeds up runtime performance, but can prevent some
hard-to-identify errors from happening as well.
--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
.Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
I get paid good money to
solve puzzles for a living
"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote in message
news:ur******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Option Strict also "disallows late binding".
Late binding is when the application doesn't know until run time what
an object's true type is. This causes more overhead to your application and opens the door to errors.
Not allowing late binding (and therefore enforcing early binding)
means that all objects must know their type at design time, because of this, the
IntelliSense in VS.NET tells you what class members are allowed on the
object.
"Simon Harris" <to***********@ makes-you-fat.com> wrote in message
news:ux******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi All,
>
> I've been advised to use option strict. I've tried to read up on
this, all > i can find is that it...
>
> "disallows implicit narrowing conversions"
>
> This kinda makes sense - Means I have to explicitly cast or convert
data > when comparing/setting two different data types right?
>
> Is there any more to it than this? What are the benefits of using option > strict?
>
> Regards,
> Simon.
>
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