subbaraja

• Jul 12th, 2005

 

which will restrict the implicit type casting (defalut is off in vb.net) 

kumaraswamy

• Oct 18th, 2005

 

Option Strict

 

Visual Basic language in general does not require explicit syntax to be used when performing operations that might not be optimally efficient (e.g. late binding) or that might fail at run time (e.g. narrowing conversions). This permissive semantics often prevents detection of coding errors and also affects the performance of the application.

 

VB.NET enables a programmer to enforce strict semantics by setting this option to "On". When used, this option should appear before any other code. This option can be set to "On" or "Off". If this statement is not specified, by default, it is set to "Off".

Syntax:  Option Strict [On / Off]

When it is set to "On", it disallows any narrowing conversions to occur without an explicit cast operator, late binding and does not let the programmer omit "As" clause in the declaration statement. Since setting it to "On" requires explicit conversion, it also requires that the compiler be able to determine the type of each variable. Thus it is implied that Option Strict also means Option Explicit. 

 

Visual Basic .NET allows implicit conversions of any data type to any other data type. However, data loss can occur if the value of one data type is converted to a data type with less precision or a smaller capacity. Setting this option to "On" ensures compile-time notification of these types of conversions so they may be avoided.

 

Henry

• Jan 5th, 2006

 

It is a keyword used to restrict implicit type casting if its set to on
because Visual basic provides implicit type conversion between any data types
whereas In C#.net is strong type safe language

sabir

• Jan 13th, 2006

 

this is the concept in vb where in vb we are option strict is indiacted that the when ever we use the verible that it has to be declared else it will thuorgh error but in vb by defalut the option strict =off but in case if net option strict will be on

Anuj

• Nov 14th, 2007

 

When we want that type conversion of data types must done explicitly then we enable the 'Option Strict'.

Neelam

• Nov 16th, 2007

 

If  Off- Implicit conversion is allowed

If On – Implicit conversion is not allowed. U need to use system.convert

 

e.g of Implicit conversion and Explicit conversion

Dim I as short = 32638

Dim l as long

L = I  ‘Implicit conversion

 

L = convert.tolong(i) ‘ Explicit conversion

mubin4all

 Profile Answers by mubin4all 

• Apr 7th, 2009

 

Variable must have appropriate data type.

Sejal Shah

 Profile Answers by Sejal Shah 

• Mar 8th, 2011

 

Its for data type