Microsoft KB Archive/129636

= PRB: "Ambiguous name detected" Compile-Time Error in VB 4.0 =

Article ID: 129636

Article Last Modified on 12/9/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q129636



SYMPTOMS
Better type checking in Microsoft Visual Basic version 4.0 causes it to return a compile-time error message when you declare two functions (or subroutines) with the same name in the same module or form. This is a change in behavior from Microsoft Visual Basic version 3.0.

The error message returned is:

Ambiguous name detected:



STATUS
This behavior is by design.



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
 Start a new project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.  Add the following code to the general declarations section of Form1: Private Declare Function GetSystemDirectory Lib "Kernel" _ (ByVal strBuffer As String, ByVal intSize As Integer) As Integer Private Declare Function GetSystemDirectory% Lib "Kernel" _ (ByVal lpBuffer$, ByVal nSize%)  Attempt to run the application by pressing the F5 key. Visual Basic will not run the application. Instead you will get this error message:

Ambiguous name detected: GetSystemDirectory



Additional query words: 4.00 vb4win vb4all

Keywords: kbprb KB129636

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