While I am not sure how to solve it, let me comment on why the error appears. The FOR EACH is executed once for each file, but there is no guarantee that there is any. The TRY part might have other instructions, outside the FOR EACH loop, that may trigger the CATCH part. In your code, there happen to be no more commands, but the compiler probably doesn't notice that.

One possibility would be to put the TRY/CATCH within the FOR EACH loop, instead of the other way round, but you must decide for yourself whether that fits into your logic.

(BTW, I believe that C# is much stricter with the "definite assignment rule", and the equivalent of your code would not compile at all.)

HTH,

Hilmar.

>Since I have upgraded to VS 2005, I have a warning with the following code:
>
>

>        Dim loDirectory As New DirectoryInfo(Input.Text)
>        Dim loFileList As FileInfo() = loDirectory.GetFiles("*.xml")
>        Dim loFile As FileInfo
>
>        Try
>
>            ' Get all the files in this one
>            For Each loFile In loFileList
>                lcFile = Input.Text + "\" + loFile.Name
>            Next
>
>        Catch loError As Exception
>            lnEnd = Date.Now.Ticks
>            lcHTMLLocal = ""
>            lcHTMLLocal = lcHTMLLocal + "<TR VALIGN=TOP>"
>            lcHTMLLocal = lcHTMLLocal + "<TD>Sending " + Input.Text + "\" + loFile.Name
>        End Try
>

>
>The message is "Variable 'loFile' is used before it has been assigned a value. A null reference exception could result at runtime".
>
>This is in regards to the last line in the Catch. However, in this case, loFile is not initialized in the Catch because it is only initialized during the For Next which is in the Try. So, how can I adjust this code to avoid the warning?