Option Statement in VB.NET

The Option Statement

There is one  statement that is very important to know when making an application- Option statement

There are three option statements, these are as follows:

(a) Option Explicit:

    It has two modes:

     1.  On

     2.  Off

 Any VB.net program has 'On' mode of option explicit by default. If program has 'Option explicit On' statement than it requires all variables have proper deceleration otherwise it gives compile time error and another  mode is 'Off', if we use 'Option explicit Off' statement  than  vb.net  create variable declaration automatically and program does not give an error

We can take an example for better understanding:

 

Option Explicit On

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        TempString = "Hello"

        MessageBox.Show(TempString)

    End Sub

End Class

Above program gives an error 'Name TempString is not declared'

 

 

Option Explicit Off

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        TempString = "Hello"

        MessageBox.Show(TempString)

    End Sub

End Class

 

Above program run continue without error

 

Note: For better coding it is recommended to declare variables with Dim keyword and data type.


(b) Option Compare:

 

This statement also has two modes

1.       Binary

2.       Text

 

Option Compare is Binary by default; we can change string comparison method by set the text or Binary see example:

 

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        If "Hello" = "HELLO" Then

            MessageBox.Show("True")

        Else

            MessageBox.Show("False")

        End If

    End Sub

End Class

 

In above program if we use Option Compare Binary,messagebox show 'false' and if we use 'Text' mode than messagebox show 'True.  that means when we set Option Compare to Text we can able compare string with Case insensitive comparision.


(c)  Option Strict:

    It has also two modes:

     1.  On

     2.  Off

Option Strict Off is the default mode. When you assign a value of one type to a variable of another type ,Visual Basic will consider that an error if this option is on and there is any possibility of data loss.

Option Strict On

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        Dim tempInt As Integer = 2010

        MessageBox.Show(tempInt)

    End Sub

End Class

Above program we can not use messagebox.show mehtod like this, it is need to change 'tempInt'  integer  type value to string type just like that:

MessageBox.Show(CStr(tempInt))

I think this is enough description about option statement…thanks

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