Can Use Property Get Statement with User-Defined Type

Last reviewed: July 29, 1997
Article ID: Q114694

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Programming System, Applications Edition, version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Visual Basic Programming System, Applications Edition, the data type of the value returned by a Property Get procedure may be a user-defined type; however, the Help topic for the Property Get statement does not include this as a valid return value.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft product listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The online help topic for Property Get does not list a user-defined type as a valid return value; however, you can return a value in a Property Get procedure as a user-defined type.

In the following procedure, the Property Get statement is used to define a property procedure that gets the value of a property which identifies the zip code as the user-defined Address type.

   Type Address
      Zip As Long
   End Type

   Sub Test()
      ' Convert value returned by Property procedure to String
      ' and display in message box
      MsgBox CStr(My_Address.Zip)
   End Sub

   ' Returns the zip code as Address type
   Property Get My_Address() As Address
      My_Address.Zip = 98052
   End Property

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REFERENCES

For more information about Property Get Statement, choose the Search button in the Visual Basic Reference and type:

    Property

Keywords          : kbcode kbprg
Version           : 1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbdocerr
Solution Type     : Info_Provided

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Last reviewed: July 29, 1997
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