>>DOH! You know what? I dummied the code sample up after I pasted it and took the CASE statement out. So should I be initializing these classes to NOTHING when I declare them?
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>~~Bonnie

I see... so I could have a CASE ELSE that set the object to NOTHING? I will try. Now maybe I can shut the darn compiler up!

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>>>That doesn't make sense that you're getting a warning ... you *are* setting the myHistoricalRatesDS in the statement right before the return. I don't get why you have a warning. Now, if you had an if statement in there, it would make sense to me, but the way you're showed it here, it doesn't make sense that there should be a warning.
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>>>Of course, I don't use VB, so what do I know?!?!? <g>
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>>>~~Bonnie
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>>>>I keep getting a lot of "Use of variable prior to assignment" warnings in VB 2005. I know that I can turn them off at the project level and usually do this, but it makes me suspicious that maybe I am doing something that I shouldn't. Here is a snippet in a business class:
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>>>>    Public Function LoadHistoricalRates() As HistoricalRatesDS
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>>>>        'This is my data access class...
>>>>        Dim myHistoricalRatesData As New HistoricalRatesData
>>>>        'This is my dataset.  I don't instantiate it here because it is instantiated
>>>>        'in my data access class...
>>>>        Dim myHistoricalRatesDS As HistoricalRatesDS
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>>>>        'An instance of HistoricalRatesDS is instantiated in my data access
>>>>        'class so I don't instantiate it again...
>>>>        myHistoricalRatesDS = myHistoricalRatesData.LoadHistoricalRates
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>>>>        'Here is where I get the warning...
>>>>        Return myHistoricalRatesDS
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>>>>    End Function
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