Function without an 'As' clause; return type of Object assumed

[Rick]

We have a very large web project, during migration from VS 2003 to VS 2005,
I'm getting hundreds of warnings:
"Function without an 'As' clause; return type of Object assumed." I know
this is not the proper way of coding, but when you inherit code from earlier
developers there's not much you can do about it.
I know you can suppress this warning, but will this cause any problems, one
of our developers came across this and the function actually returned a
value of "system.string" or something like that. Is there some configuration
or setting that can force it to not assume object?

Thanks in Advance!
Rick

[sloan]

You can go to the project properties and turn off

Option Explicit
and/or
Option Strict

which would be a HORRIBLE MISTAKE in my opinion.

........

Go through now and fix them is my advice.
and return the correct objects.

Your "hundreds of warnings" will take less time to address now, then the
mainteance issues you'll have of lack of strong typing in your code later.


"Rick" <rf*****@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
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We have a very large web project, during migration from VS 2003 to VS
2005, I'm getting hundreds of warnings:
"Function without an 'As' clause; return type of Object assumed." I know
this is not the proper way of coding, but when you inherit code from
earlier developers there's not much you can do about it.
I know you can suppress this warning, but will this cause any problems,
one of our developers came across this and the function actually returned
a value of "system.string" or something like that. Is there some
configuration or setting that can force it to not assume object?

Thanks in Advance!
Rick

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Rick,

I agree with sload, turning off those options is not recommended,
especially for a big project. My suggestion is to fix those warnings
instead of disabling them.
Regards,
Walter Wang (wa****@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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