BUG: Option Explicit Statement is Not Added by a DHTML Page

• Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

The DHTML Page Designer does not add an Option Explicit statement to code by default. With this statement, Visual Basic requires you to declare variables before you use them.

RESOLUTION

To add Option Explicit to your DHTML Page Designer pages:

1. Right-click on DHTML page in the Visual Basic Project window.



2. Select View Code from the pop-up menu.



3. Insert the text "Option Explicit" as the very first line.



4. Repeat this process for all DHTML pages in the project and every time you create a new DHTML page.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES

Please see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article for more information on the DHTML Page Designer:

Q190249 INFO: VB 6.0 Readme Part 9: DHTML Page Designer Issues

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbInternet kbPageDesigner kbVBp600bug
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug