Microsoft KB Archive/179496

= FIX: Class Builder Reports Property Procedures as Variants =

Article ID: 179496

Article Last Modified on 11/18/2003

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q179496



SYMPTOMS
A class module containing property procedures that return data types other than variants are shown in the Class Builder Utility as returning Variant data types.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs in the following situations:


 * The class module contains a method that returns a Variant data type. -or-


 * A property procedure of a data type other than Variant is declared after a method that returns a Variant data type.



RESOLUTION
Move all property procedures and functions that return a Variant data type to the end of the class module.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Basic 6.0.

Additional query words: kbVBp500bug kbVBp600fix kbVBp kbdss kbDSupport kbAddIn

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB179496

-

[mailto:TECHNET@MICROSOFT.COM Send feedback to Microsoft]

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.