Article ID: 190251 - Last Review: April 18, 2003 - Revision: 1.2

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

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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.
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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.
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STATUS

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

Please see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article for more information on the DHTML Page Designer:
190249  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190249/EN-US/ ) INFO: VB 6.0 Readme Part 9: DHTML Page Designer Issues
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
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Keywords: 
kbbug kbpagedesigner KB190251
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