Visual Basic .NET Language Option Strict
Syntax
- Option Strict { On | Off }
Remarks
Option Strict On is a recommended good practice with Visual Basic .Net. It helps you as the developer to produce cleaner, more stable, more bug-free, more maintainable code. In some cases it may also help you write programs with better performance, avoiding things such as Implicit Conversion.
On is not the default setting for a new installation of Visual Studio. It should be one of the first things changed before beginning programming if you are going to use VB.NET. The reason it is not the default setting comes from the first editions of Visual Studio when programmers were expected to be migrating projects from VB6.
