BUG: Class Builder Reports Property Procedures as Variants

Last reviewed: January 19, 1998
Article ID: Q179496

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

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.
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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. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Keywords          : vb5all VBKBObj VBKBVB
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

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Last reviewed: January 19, 1998
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