Unused variables that really are?!?

[zacks]

Suddenly, in a VB2005 project I am working on, several variables show
up in the list of warnings are being unused local variables. But they
all are. Several of them are the ex variable used in a Try/Catch, and
the Catch for each one references the ex exception variable. Yet it is
still flagged as unused? What gives?

[Marina]

Are you referencing the exception variable in the catch block? I am guessing
not, which is why it is flagged that awy.

<za***@construc tion-imaging.com> wrote in message
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Suddenly, in a VB2005 project I am working on, several variables show
up in the list of warnings are being unused local variables. But they
all are. Several of them are the ex variable used in a Try/Catch, and
the Catch for each one references the ex exception variable. Yet it is
still flagged as unused? What gives?

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

<za***@construc tion-imaging.com> schrieb:

Suddenly, in a VB2005 project I am working on, several variables show
up in the list of warnings are being unused local variables. But they
all are. Several of them are the ex variable used in a Try/Catch, and
the Catch for each one references the ex exception variable. Yet it is
still flagged as unused? What gives?

I'm not able to repro the problem you describe with the final version of VS
2005. Which veryion are you using? Does the problem even occur in a newly
created project? Could you post the code you are using? Maybe deleting the
project's "bin" and "obj" folders and recompiling solves the problem.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
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[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Zacks,

Suddenly, in a VB2005 project I am working on, several variables show
up in the list of warnings are being unused local variables. But they
all are. Several of them are the ex variable used in a Try/Catch, and
the Catch for each one references the ex exception variable. Yet it is
still flagged as unused? What gives?

It is a new feature what some of us by instance (Herfried and I) are not
completly fond of.

(As far as I have seen does it work correct by the way, however it does not
know that you as human know that some situations cannot exist).

Do not try to create constructions as this.

dim mystring as string = "".

This gives only overhead.

Cor

[zacks]

I would not even have a Catch block if I did not reference the
exception variable.

[Marina]

Sure you can. It will catch all exceptions.

The following compiles just fine:

Try
Catch
End Try

It is functionally the same as

Try
Catch ex As Exception
End Try

<za***@construc tion-imaging.com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ g49g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .

I would not even have a Catch block if I did not reference the
exception variable.

[zacks]

VS 2005 Version 8.0.50727.42

I have not n oticed this situation in a new project. In fact, it just
cropped up today in a project I have been working on for the past
month.

Deleting the bin and obj folders and rebuilding did not help.

Sorry, I can't post any of the code, my company owns it. I can post the
warning the compiler tells me about these variables:

Warning 5 Unused local variable: 'KeyField'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 140 13 Universal Data Mover
Warning 6 Unused local variable: 'OrderBy'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 141 13 Universal Data Mover
Warning 7 Unused local variable: 'DerivedValue'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 143 13 Universal Data Mover
Warning 8 Unused local variable: 'StillAdding'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 148 13 Universal Data Mover
Warning 9 Unused local variable: 'DoUpdate'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 149 13 Universal Data Mover
Warning 10 Unused local variable: 'KeyChanged'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 150 13 Universal Data Mover
Warning 11 Unused local variable: 'VerificationEr rors'. C:\Documents
and Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 151 13 Universal Data Mover
Warning 12 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 253 15 Universal Data Mover
Warning 13 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 279 19 Universal Data Mover
Warning 14 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 317 19 Universal Data Mover
Warning 15 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 350 19 Universal Data Mover
Warning 16 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 431 23 Universal Data Mover
Warning 17 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 459 23 Universal Data Mover
Warning 18 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 498 23 Universal Data Mover
Warning 19 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 545 23 Universal Data Mover
Warning 20 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 765 35 Universal Data Mover
Warning 21 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 774 35 Universal Data Mover
Warning 22 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 815 51 Universal Data Mover
Warning 23 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 827 51 Universal Data Mover
Warning 24 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 935 51 Universal Data Mover
Warning 25 Unused local variable: 'ex'. C:\Documents and
Settings\zacks\ My Documents\CIS\S ourceSafe Working\Univers al Data
Mover\Universal Data Mover\Data_Engi ne.vb 946 51 Universal Data Mover

In EACH case, the variable flagged as not sure is most definitely used.

[zacks]

How do I get rid of the warnings?

How can one do:

dim mystring as string = ""

without the overhead you mention?

[zacks]

I know you can. It's just that every time I use a Try/Catch is because
I want to know what the error is.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

<za***@construc tion-imaging.com> schrieb:

How do I get rid of the warnings?

How can one do:

dim mystring as string = ""

without the overhead you mention?

\\\
Dim s As String = Nothing
///

However, I tend to disable the warning as it doesn't make much sense to me.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>