Yet more trouble...

[Kasracer]

It's precisely that kind of thinking that gets people into trouble when they do this:

Dim a as Integer = 5
Dim b as Integer =6
text1.text = A + B

And then wonder why they got 11 instead of 56.

With Option Strict that would fail since they're not strings... I would like to think that if someone has Option Strict on and run into that, that they will figure out the problem and receive a better understanding of how assignment works but that's not to say that'll happen or that & is not a better alternative.

If you're using the string concatenation operator then what other type would your result be but a string? If you don't want a string result then why would you be concatenating in the first place?

I'm not saying I would expect a different result but I would prefer the code explicitly state a conversion is taking place.

I just always try to avoid implicit conversions as they can cause code confusion to those not as familiar and it may not always work the way you expect it to work with custom classes (can you overload the & operator?).