Re: Wish I was using .net

Oh,
Then I have to agree with MikeD, that's just the way the language is. In
..NET, or any language for that matter you'll find a number of runtime errors
that for whatever reason the compiler won't catch. It has nothing to do
with the language, or the compiler. There are a number of instances in VB
where you wouldn't want the compiler to raise an error at compile time if
there were a potential type mismatch. If you don't catch something in
testing, then you don't catch it, that's how every language works.

Lance


"Michael C" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Lance Wynn" <LanceWynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can you post some code samples, I too cannot get this to compile. Having
a
function return a connection, and trying to set that to a command object
gives me a type mismatch at runtime. I am interested in learning under
what
circumstances this can occur so I can avoid it if I come across it.

That is what it is meant to do. The point is you get it at runtime, not at
compile time like it should.

Michael



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