Compiler warning: null reference exception

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盖世英雄少女心 2021-01-18 14:39

I have the following code in Visual Studio 2005.

    Dim OutFile As System.IO.StreamWriter
    Try
        OutFile = New System.IO.StreamWriter(Filename)
            


        
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  • 2021-01-18 15:00

    The accepted answer is correct, of course, but it doesn't explain why or when explicit initialization may matter.

    VB.NET usually assigns a default value (0 or Nothing) when a variable is declared, but there are corner cases where it doesn't.

    Consider this simple console application:

    Sub Main()
        For i As Integer = 1 To 5
            Dim number As Integer
            If i = 3 Then number = 3
    
            Console.Write(number)
        Next
    End Sub
    

    What's the output look like? You might expect that number gets set to 0 for every iteration of the loop, and it only gets set to 3 on the third iteration of the loop. Then for the fourth and fifth iteration, it'd be 0 again. So the output is 00300, right? Not so. The output of this code is actually

    00333

    That's because in VB.NET, the lifetime of a variable declared in a loop is for the whole loop, not for one iteration of the loop (Not what you'd expect, huh?). But if you explicitly set the value of number to 0 at its declaration, like so

    Dim number As Integer = 0
    

    then the output looks like

    00300

    So it's usually safe to assume VB.NET will set the default value when you Dim a variable, but it's always safest to set it explicitly to 0 or Nothing to get the expected behavior.

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  • 2021-01-18 15:09

    Its a question of scope, the initialisation of the outfile object is happening in a block of code not visible to the fianlly block.

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  • 2021-01-18 15:12
    Dim OutFile As System.IO.StreamWriter
    OutFile = Nothing
    Try
        OutFile = New System.IO.StreamWriter(Filename)
       // Do stuff with OutFile
    Catch Ex As Exception
       // Handle Exception
    Finally
       If OutFile IsNot Nothing Then OutFile.Close()
    End Try
    

    Similar to C# error: Use of unassigned local variable

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