Latebound Exception?

[VB_Noob]

The following code generates a latebound exception.
Anyone have any idea why & how to fix it?

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Public Class Form1
Structure sTest
Dim ItemA As String
Dim ItemB As String
End Structure

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim aTest As New ArrayList
aTest.Add(New sTest)
aTest(0).ItemA = "test" '<-- LateBound Exception
End Sub
End Class

 

[Armin Zingler]

The following code generates a latebound exception.
Anyone have any idea why & how to fix it?

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Public Class Form1
Structure sTest
Dim ItemA As String
Dim ItemB As String
End Structure

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim aTest As New ArrayList
aTest.Add(New sTest)
aTest(0).ItemA = "test" '<-- LateBound Exception
End Sub
End Class

Is there a reason why you use late binding? If not, enable Option Strict. In
the project's properties and in the IDE options (-> "VB defaults"). Then
you'd come across the problem earlier.

The reason for the exception is that

aTest(0)

returns the item in the ArrayList. As the item is a structure, it is a value
type, and therefore the returned item is a copy of the item in the
Arraylist. If
you'd change the property of the copy, it wouldn't make sense because it
doesn'
change the object in the Arraylist. You'd have to write:

dim tmp as sTest

tmp = directcast(aTest(0), sTest)
tmp.ItemA="test"
aTest(0) = tmp


You can solve it by declaring sTest as a Class. Starting with VB 2005, I
recommend making use of a List(Of sTest) instead of an Arraylist.


Armin

 

[VB_Noob]

Is there a reason why you use late binding? If not, enable Option Strict.
In the project's properties and in the IDE options (-> "VB defaults").
Then you'd come across the problem earlier.

The reason for the exception is that

aTest(0)

returns the item in the ArrayList. As the item is a structure, it is a
value
type, and therefore the returned item is a copy of the item in the
Arraylist. If
you'd change the property of the copy, it wouldn't make sense because it
doesn'
change the object in the Arraylist. You'd have to write:

dim tmp as sTest

tmp = directcast(aTest(0), sTest)
tmp.ItemA="test"
aTest(0) = tmp


You can solve it by declaring sTest as a Class. Starting with VB 2005, I
recommend making use of a List(Of sTest) instead of an Arraylist.


Armin

Thanks Armin!

After reading your reply, I took out the ArrayList, replacing it with
List(of <Class>) and it worked perfectly. I ofcourse needed to setup
properties & added some routines/functions to do extra stuff but the results
where good )

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Hi,

I found an answer to your question. It is like that, I know the writer of
this message doesn't do it anymore in the way like he advices here, but it
describes your main problem a little bit as you look at the first 11 words
in the message.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb/msg/35f1ba4ce84d5bbb

(Please don't take this message to serious)



Cor