Learning Visual Basic .NET
by Jesse Liberty

This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing.

If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to
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This page was updated February 02, 2006.

Here's a key to the markup:
	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
	{page-number}: minor technical mistake
	<page-number>: important language/formatting problem
	(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
	?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


Confirmed errors:


(38) IN PRINT: Example 5-1, fourth and sixth lines;
"Console.WriteLine..."

SHOULD BE:
"System.Console.WriteLine..."


(48) first line
Chapter 7 describes branching in detail
should be
Chapter 6 describes branching in detail


[92] Ex. 8-3;
Change the member variable Date to myDate throughout the program -- Date is a keyword.


(96)  Dim Command in Constructor paragraph;
"Dim timeObject as New Time();" ends with a semicolon. The semicolon should be
removed.


{109} Line 16
Date = dt.Date
Should be: 
Date = dt.Day


[158]
The syntax shown for defining an interface refers to access-modifiers. No access 
modifiers are allowed except shadows. Shadows refers to the ability to have an 
element in a derived class with the same name as an element in the base class, 
which hides the element in the base class.


(184)  Code snippet just above "Accessing Array Elements" heading;

For i = 0 to empArray.Length -1
  empArray(i) = New Employee(i + 5)
  i = i + 1
Next

should be:

For i = 0 to empArray.Length -1
  empArray(i) = New Employee(i + 5)
Next

(remove the line "i = i + 1")


{257}  Class Tester, Run method;
Dim id as Integer = 1 produces the following output:
2: One
3: Two
4: Three
5: Liberty
6: Associates
7: Inc.

should be 

Dim id as Integer = 0 to produces output:
1: One
2: Two
3: Three
4: Liberty
5: Associates
6: Inc.