Learning Visual Basic .NET
by Jesse Liberty

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

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

This page was updated July 31, 2008.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 

(25) Figure 4-1;
Figure 4-1 should show the Start Page of Visual Studio, but shows the New Project window instead (which is repeated in figure 4-2.)


{88-89} Example 8-2;
To be honest, I'm not sure. When I attempted to code as described beginning on page 88, the compiler complains " 'Sub Main' was not found in Module1.Module1" Here is my actual code; I commented out any non-essential items before last compile attempt. My project name is Module1 and is a VB .Net Console application:

Option Strict On
Imports System
Public Module Module1
Public Class Dog
End Class
Public Class Tester
Public Shared Sub Main()
End Sub
Public Sub Run()
End Sub
End Class
End Module


{97, 99 and 100}  Example 8-5, Example 8-6 and Example 8-7;
All three of these examples declare 'date' for example:
  Private Date As Integer
The compiler gives an error message:
  Error 30183: Keyword is is not valid as an identifier

Also in example 9-1 and 9-2


(182) where it is stated that you can redim an array with the statement :

ReDim Preserve myArray(myArray(Ubound) + 50)
it should be:
ReDim Preserve myArray(Ubound(myArray) + 50)


[203]  Example 14-10;
code example generates the following error when compiled:

"(15) : error BC30451: Name 'initialStrings' is not declared

unless you declare the constructor for the initialStrings() array constructor as
follows:

Dim initialStrings() As String = New String() {}

**I inserted this statement after the following line of code:

Private ctr As Integer = 0

The source compiles without error and generates the correct output afterwords.