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What do Option Strict and Option Explicit do?

I saw this post: Typos… Just use option strict and explicit please.. during one software development project, which I was on as a consultant, they were getting ridiculous amounts of errors everywhere… turned out the developer couldn’t spell and…
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Option Strict On disallows late binding with system.array

I have the following code which return wmi information (unknown array) For Each objMgmt In oquery.Get() For Each theproperty In objMgmt.Properties If (TypeOf objMgmt(theproperty.Name) Is System.Array) Then myrow(theproperty.Name) =…
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VBScript Option Explicit line order (in relation to libraries)

I have a fairly large VB Script project in which the primary script "includes" a number of "libraries" using the standard trick of reading file contents and running ExecuteGlobal on them. Some of the libraries are pretty vast and written by various…
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Why doesn't compiler error on build?

I am using VB.NET, at the top is Option Explicit However why does the compiler not raise an error when I do :- obj.ThisFunction(Convert.ToInt32(strMessage)) and the function is :- Function ThisFunction(id as long) Surely, Int32 is int and int64…
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I'm not sure what Option explicit means?

Possible Duplicate: what’s an option strict and explicit? Is it about case sensitivity? Complete noob here.
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Dim declaration with assignment and Option Strict

I have run into an issue with my code, as follows: Option Explicit Off Option Strict On 'Results in Compiler Error. Expected base or compare or explicit or private Sub DoSomething() Dim intOne As Integer 'This line works intOne = 1…
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Invalid Cast Exception On One Machine Given Same Assembly & Data

I have encountered an unusual situation where the same code is behaving differently on a particular machine. The program is written in VB.NET and WF4. The workflow XAML is read from a database at runtime and compiled on the fly. I mention this only…
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DLL variables conflicting with local variables when Option Explicit Off

I am maintaining a VB6 program that does not use Option Explicit. I know this is not a good idea but I did not write the code. An example of my problem is that one variable called state has been used in a procedure without Dim. A DLL has since been…
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