Re: Please please please fix the IDE

From: Charles Law (blank_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:11:48 -0000

Lloyd

I may be wrong, but I think that the OPTION STRICT setting in the IDE
options dialog is not designed to cause the clause to be created in new
classes. Rather, it is a default to apply in the absence of an explicit
declaration at the top of the file.

That said, I know what you mean about the IDE. For the most part it works
fine, but I also frequently get erroneous errors reported, which disappear
on a repeat build or closing and restarting the IDE.

One thing I would say is that I have found some of the apparently erroneous
errors reported to be caused by complicated linkage in multi-project
solutions. If coupling is high, the IDE gets 'confused' about from where to
satisfy references. This is made worse if names are re-used in different
projects. Even if the declarations are the same they will have different
signatures, and therefore may lead to confusion. I have stared at an
unexplained error for hours, convinced that it is not an error, only to
realise later that I had used the same control name or namespace in two
projects, and that the compiler was getting its reference from one place
whilst I was expecting it to get it from another. Qualifying the reference
sorted the problem (although changing the name was ultimately the best
solution).

If you have a multi-project solution, you could look carefully at the
Reference Paths set up in each project, and ensure they are consistent with
the project inter-dependencies set up in he solution explorer.

I am not suggesting that this will completely cure your problems, but I
found that the incidence of erroneous errors falls off when coupling is low
and inter-dependencies are minimised.

HTH

Charles

"Lloyd Sheen" <sqlguyremoveallofthis@tostopspamhotmail.com> wrote in message
news:kc3%b.3127$Yf.2213@twister01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Yes but there are MS lurkers. Perhaps they will get the message to fix
the
> IDE before they release another one with so many problems.
>
> Even things like setting OPTION STRICT ON does not work. Create a new VB
> class and the OPTION clause is not generated.
>
> Lloyd Sheen
>
> "Michael S" <a@b.c> wrote in message
> news:%23Gqwcp6%23DHA.1796@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > "Lloyd Sheen" <sqlguyremoveallofthis@tostopspamhotmail.com> wrote in
> message
> > news:0tN_b.56162$RTW1.12020@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> > > So MS where is the error that is reported on last line
> >
> > Please, LLoyd. This is a developer-community, not Microsoft support.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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