-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 6k
Improve BC42328 documentation with comprehensive explanation of relaxed delegate conversions #48120
New issue
Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.
By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.
Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account
Merged
+91
−5
Conversation
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
…xed delegate conversions Co-authored-by: BillWagner <493969+BillWagner@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot finished work on behalf of
BillWagner
August 26, 2025 16:06
BillWagner
approved these changes
Aug 27, 2025
There was a problem hiding this comment.
Choose a reason for hiding this comment
The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.
This is ready for final review once suggestions are applied.
gewarren
approved these changes
Aug 27, 2025
Co-authored-by: Genevieve Warren <24882762+gewarren@users.noreply.github.com>
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Labels
dotnet-visualbasic/svc
errors-warnings/subsvc
okr-quality
Content-quality KR: Concerns article defects (bugs), freshness, or build warnings.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
The BC42328 Visual Basic compiler warning documentation was minimal and didn't help developers understand when and why this warning occurs. Users reported confusion about:
Changes Made
Enhanced the BC42328.md documentation with:
Comprehensive explanation: Added detailed description of Visual Basic's relaxed delegate conversion feature, explaining the four types of conversions (widening parameters/return types, omitting parameters, dropping return values).
Clear examples: Provided concrete code examples showing when BC42328 occurs versus when it doesn't:
Clarification of "no effect" message: Explained why the compiler says AddressOf "has no effect" (because it must create a wrapper delegate regardless) while still being syntactically required.
Multiple correction strategies: Provided four different approaches for addressing the warning:
Practical guidance: Added section on when the warning can safely be ignored for common scenarios.
Enhanced cross-references: Added links to related Visual Basic documentation including relaxed delegate conversion, AddHandler/RemoveHandler statements.
The enhanced documentation transforms a confusing, minimal error page into a comprehensive resource that helps Visual Basic developers understand and properly handle BC42328 warnings.
Fixes #10157.
✨ Let Copilot coding agent set things up for you — coding agent works faster and does higher quality work when set up for your repo.
Internal previews