Re: Bug using Option Strict ON in ASP.net 2.0 app

d88b — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:13:12 GMT

This is the answer I got from Microsoft...

Sorry about the inconvenience. There unfortunately isn’t a GUI way to enable option strict, but you can enable it by copying and pasting this statement into your application’s web.config file (it should go immediately underneath the root <configuration> element:

<system.codedom>
    <compilers>
      <compiler compilerOptions ="/optionexplicit+ /optionstrict+" language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb" type="Microsoft.VisualBasic.VBCodeProvider, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
    </compilers>
</system.codedom>

This will then enable option strict for both code-behind and your app_code directory.

Hope this helps,

Scott

Bug using Option Strict ON in ASP.net 2.0 app

d88b — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:10:14 GMT

I set OPTION STRICT ON as a default in VS2005 and also added it to the WEB.config file.

I noticed today in an ASP.net app I'm working on that the code wasn't throwing an error during implicit type conversions. Hmmm, that's strange...so after investigating every possiblility and multiple testing, I discovered that there's a bug in Visual Studio 2005.

Work around: This sucks but..you need to set option explicit at the top of every code page.

I notified the Microsoft regional director and after testing he concurred with my conclusion.

Note: This only affects ASP.net apps not Windows apps.

(Unless of course I'm completely retarted and missed something obvious )