Hari,
Include Option Strict On at the top of each of your source files. It will
disable these automatic class conversions, which IMHO can cause brittle code
(code that breaks easily at run time, usually with obscure errors or no
errors).
In other words Option Strict On will cause compile time errors instead of
runtime errors for most conversions...
The default is Option Strict Off, which allows this automatic conversions.
Hope this helps
Jay
"Hari" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:79ednRNaA8E1uIDcRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks karlww and Imran,
> I was just trying it out again and I realized the following piece of code
> worked:
> Dim str As String = "8.93"
> Console.WriteLine(str + 0.07)
> which means that there is an automatic class cast in the background. I
> didn't even realize this so, sorry for the hassel.
> "karlww" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:780377BF-3720-4F1E-83E2-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> > "Hari" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > From: "Hari" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> > > Subject: 2 extreme newbie ?s
> > > Date: Friday, August 13, 2004 2:43 PM
> > >
> > > I just started programming in Visual Basic.NET about a month ago, so I
> am
> > > completely oblivious as to which libraries to look in. However, I have
> good
> > > experience with Java and C. Below are ten extremely simple questions
> which I
> > > couldn't seem to find the answers to after looking in some text and
> > > searching through the libraries:
> > >
> > > I looked many places for the library that parses Strings into
different
> > > number formats, but couldn't find one.
> > > Ex:
> > > Dim str As String = "8.93"
> > > Dim num As Double
> > > num = ???
> >
> > num = CDbl(str)
> >
> > > If I want num to be set to 8.93, which method of the String class
should
> I
> > > use?
> > >
> > >
> > > When I implement the Try... Catch... Finally set, I can't quite get
the
> > > clause to function the way I want it to. Take the following piece of
> code:
> > > ____ 'Start
> > > Dim slots(3) As Integer
> > > Try
> > > slots(4) = 3
> > > Catch Except As IndexOutOfBounds 'or something
> > > 'catch code here
> > > Catch Except As Exception
> > > 'other catch code here
> > > ___ 'End
> >
> > Are you sure? I tried the following code which works as expected
> >
> >
> > Dim sl(3) As Integer
> >
> > Try
> > sl(4) = 1
> > Catch ex As System.IndexOutOfRangeException
> > MsgBox("System.IndexOutOfRangeException " & ex.Message)
> > Catch ex As System.Exception
> > MsgBox("System.Exception " & ex.Message)
> > End Try
> >
> > > if I want to have a certain exception handled one way and any other
> > > exception all handled in one general way, what do I need to do. If I
> type in
> > > the above code, I always get the the general code executed, even if
the
> > > IndexOutOfBounds exception was thrown.
> > >
>
>
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