The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted by |
Date submitted |
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12.2.2
Example 12-1. Publish and subscribe with delegates |
Method Name "SecondChanged" conflicts with prior delegate instance of the same name:
protected virtual void SecondChanged(TimeInfoEventArgs e)
{
if (SecondChanged != null)
{
SecondChanged(this, e);
}
}
Does not compile under Visual Studio 2008. Changing the method name and it's call repairs the problem (I used "SecondChange").
BTW, when reading books Online, I cannot determine a "page number" so I used the Section Number
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Anonymous |
Oct 28, 2008 |
| Printed |
Page 21
Numeric types table |
The "Integral-unsigned" and "Integral-unsigned" headers in the table have been swapped.
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Anonymous |
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Page 22
Table 3-1 |
All the terms in the Type column should *not* be capitalized: Byte should be byte, Char should be char, etc. decimal is the only type which is correctly (not) capitalized.
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Richard Albury |
May 23, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 36
halfway down the page |
The second if/else block contains the line:
valueTwo = valueOne + 1;
this was changed from:
valueTwo = valueOne++;
in the 3rd edition of the book (which I also own).
The 3rd edition's output matches the output presented in both books. The 5th edition's does not.
3rd: ValueOne: 31 ValueTwo: 30
5th: ValueOne: 30 ValueTwo: 31
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Anonymous |
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Page 37
First program output |
Setting valueTwo to valueOne value,
and incrementing valueOne
ValueOne: 31 ValueTwo: 30
should be
ValueOne: 30 ValueTwo: 31 - because valueTwo is assigned to valueOne + 1 in the second conditional
test in book.
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Anonymous |
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Page 41
First paragraph, last sentence |
The sentence "If you uncomment WriteLine() under LiberalRepublican, this program won't compile." Should be changed to "If you uncomment WriteLine() under ConservativeRepublican, this program won't compile."
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Vinnie Cardona |
Apr 29, 2009 |
| PDF |
Page 63
3rd code snippet |
The following code:
ListBox myListBox; // instantiate a ListBox object
did not instantiate the ListBox object because C# compiler will set myListBox null if 'new' operator is ommitted.
So it should be like this:
ListBox myListBox = new ListBox(); // instantiate a ListBox object
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Anonymous |
Dec 03, 2008 |
| PDF |
Page 79
1st paragraph |
This book says:
Thus, if you want to initialize a static member, you must provide an explicit initializer.
but static member is initializable in the static constructor.
So it should be like this:
(snip) you must provide an explicit initializer, or initialize it inside its static constructor.
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Anonymous |
Dec 03, 2008 |
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Page 82
Example 4-6. |
using System.Drawing;
Compiler throws error when using Visual Studio 2008 C# Expression Edition. The authors have given
no clue if System.Drawing is not a default accessible namespace and needs to be imported or
referenced.
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Anonymous |
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Page 90
public class Tester, first Time object instance |
Erroneous code is
Time t1 = new Time(currentTime);
t.DisplayCurrentTime(); // error that "t" should be "t1"
Need to make the code
Time t1 = new Time(currentTime);
t1.DisplayCurrentTime();
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Anonymous |
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Page 93
public int Hour definition |
No comment is made in text about capitalizing the property Hour vs lowercase for private member
variable hour - don't know if this is standard practice to maintain same name but differ only in
case but it would be worth commenting on in text - particularly for people like me who just copied
code from earlier example, then got stack overflows in DisplayCurrentTime, etc. when "Hour" used
instead of "hour" - good OJT in the importance of case, though.
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Anonymous |
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Page 104
Control constructor |
typos in case, should be
this.Top = top;
this.Left = left;
Does not compile otherwise
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Anonymous |
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Page 104
DrawWindow() function for Control class |
the function definition should have the properties Top and Left capitalized as in
Console.Writeline( "Control: drawing Control at {0}, {1}",
Top, Left );
will not compile otherwise.
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Anonymous |
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Page 105
DrawWindow() function for Button class |
the function definition should have the properties Top and Left capitalized as in
Console.Writeline( "Drawing at button at {0}, {1}
",
Top, Left );
will not compile otherwise.
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Anonymous |
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Page 106
Example in Calling Base Class Constructors |
last line of example in this section does NOT match program
base(theTop, theLeft) // call base constructor
in program text given on page 104 the line reads
base(top, left) // call base constructor
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Anonymous |
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Page 114
DisplayValue method in class Program |
Console.Writeline statement is missing closing parenthesis
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Anonymous |
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Page 130
first line of code |
there are 14 reviews of this book at Amazon - almost all of them say this book is many errors. Why is the eratta for this book only one page? Someone is not doing their job.
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Anonymous |
Jun 19, 2011 |
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Page 153
Second to last and third to last paragraphs |
The book incorrectly states that Main() invokes the Cat.HowManyCats() static method. The static method is invoked from Run(), not Main().
This book is excellent, and is especially good when teamed up with Visual C++ 2008 from Microsoft. As an ex-C++ programmer, I find the book a good refresher and also a good point of departure for learning the differences between C++ and C#. I'm 58, but I like C# more than C++ (especially the type-safe and garbage collection features). Who says you can't teach an old Dog() new tricks?
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Eric Bank |
Mar 16, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 186-187
Table 9-2 spanning pp 186-87 |
The Interface item "IColletion<T>" is listed twice in Table 9-2 with two different Purpose
explanations. I believe the Purpose given for the first instance of "ICollection<T>" in the table
is correct, but the Purpose given for the second instance implies, to me, that the intended
Interface item should not be "ICollection<T>", but some other Interface entity. I'm just not sure
what was intended.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 195
Table 9-3, last line |
Table 9-3 lists methods of List<T>. Last method is TrimToSize(), but List class does not have that method.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 196
Bottom of page |
This is in the 5th Edition:
The book states:
The default capacity is eight. When you add the 17th element, the capacity is automatically doubled to 16.
Shouldn't this read, when you add the 9th element, the capacity is automatically doubled to 16?
Then the book continues:
If you change the for loop to:
for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++)
...
The output given displays 17 elements. Based on the code, I would expect the output to contain only 9 elements.
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Carol |
Aug 25, 2009 |
| PDF |
Page 249
Example 11-4 code block |
Example 11-4 has three errors.
First Console.WriteLine argument lacks the second double-quote.
It should be:
Console.WriteLine(
"ArithmeticException caught!");
Next, the second keyword "Catch" should be "catch".
At last, the second Console.WriteLine method name is wrong (Write"l"ine).
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Yukitoshi Suzuki |
Dec 06, 2008 |
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258
2nd class 4th and 5th objects |
In your code and in the explanation of the code you create a function and an object using the same name SecondChanged (public SecondChangeHandler SecondChanged; and protected virtual void SecondChanged(TimeInfoEventArgs e) ).
The problem is is that this code in uncompilable and creates confusion as to what the programmer was trying to make a reference to when calling either one of these objects later on in the code or your description/explanation of the code.
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Anonymous |
Feb 27, 2009 |
|
258/259
at botton of 258 and 2/3 the way down on 259 |
TimeInfoEventArgs.cs(43,30): error CS0102: The type 'EventsWithDelegates.Clock' already contains a definition for 'SecondChanged'
TimeInfoEventArgs.cs(41,34): (Location of symbol related to previous error)
In both the Book and on Safari had the same code but I downloaded the examples and discovered the work On had been added to SecondChanged.
in Clock:
protected virtual void OnSecondChanged(TimeInfoEventArgs e)
in Run: OnSecondChanged(timeInformation);
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Herb Morriss |
Feb 15, 2010 |
| Printed |
Page 262
2nd paragraph |
Original text reads "...this delegate... takes two arguments: the first of type void..."
However, in the example, the first argument is of type object.
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Bob Lidral |
Mar 22, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 266-271
Multiple |
The text continually refers to the VIRTUAL FUNCTION OnSecondChange as the DELEGATE INSTANCE from
the preceding example. I believe the delegate instance SecondChanged is actually intended. This
mistake is made multiple times (consistently) over the 5 pages identified above and was very
confusing until I realized that this was a typo. Hopefully I am not mistaken, as I have continued
my learning with the assumption that this is a typo.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 266
Example code segments starting with "The Danger with Delegates" |
In the original example, the event is named "OnSecondChanged". In the text and sample code starting on page 266, the final "d" has been dropped from the name so it becomes "OnSecondChange".
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Bob Lidral |
Mar 22, 2009 |
| PDF |
Page 266
code snippet at beginning of 'The Danger with Delegates' |
The code and discussion from this point thru the section called 'The event Keyword' on pages 267-268 refer to a method called 'OnSecondChange' that does not exist in the code sample on pages 259 thru 262. I think it should instead refer to 'SecondChanged'.
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Anonymous |
Sep 24, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 267
Last couple of code snippets |
Not consistent with the program listing on previous pages and the following page (p. 268).
Change:
public event SecondChangeHandler OnSecondChange;
to:
public event SecondChangeHandler SecondChanged;
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 267
Lines 5, 7, and 8 from the bottom |
Replace all three instances of OnSecondChange with SecondChanged.
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Hong Quach |
Mar 26, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 271
Examples in "Anonymous Methods" section |
Why are some items in boldface in the example?
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Bob Lidral |
Mar 22, 2009 |
| PDF |
Page 296
3rd paragraph |
This book says:
You can't use fully qualified extension method names as you do with a normal method.
but we can invoke the extension method with fully qualified name as a normal method like below (you have written in p298):
System.Linq.Enumerable.Where(names, n => n.StartsWith("D"));
so it should be "can use" rather than "can't use".
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Anonymous |
Dec 05, 2008 |
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Page 304
2nd section, 1st paragraph |
The text says: "HTML was derived from the Structured Query Markup Language (SQML)".
SQML does not exist. HTML is derived from SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language.
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thoover83 |
Jan 16, 2009 |
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Page 314
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I downloaded the examples from the O'Reilly web site.
The code for Example 14-3 in the 5th edition is significantly different from the code in the download.
CreateCustomerList() uses completely different names.
"static void main" from the downloaded code omits various WriteLine statements, in addition to using the different names.
Made it much more difficult to execute the code in the book and compare the outputs.
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Bob Gerstmyer |
Feb 11, 2010 |
| PDF |
Page 316
Output result for example14-2 |
Output result for example 14-2 has two mistakes.
First, output after "Search using node values..." duplicates the following:
SelectSingleNode("descendant::EmailAddress[text() = 'dAdams@foo.com']")...
<EmailAddress>dAdams@foo.com</EmailAddress>
but the second one should be:
SelectSingleNode("descendant::Customer[EmailAddress = 'dAdams@foo.com']")...
<Customer FirstName="Douglas" LastName="Adams"><EmailAddress>dAdams@foo.com</EmailAddress></Customer>
Next, the second last output also duplicated.
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Yukitoshi Suzuki |
Dec 06, 2008 |
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Page 349
Example 15-2 Line 18 |
The code listing reads:
Customer donna = dc.Customers.Single(c => c.FirstName == "Donna");");
It appears that the last three characters of the line -- "); -- were repeated as they do not make any sense in the syntax of the code.
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Anonymous |
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| PDF |
Page 351
3rd paragraph |
This book said:
If there is more than one customer with that specific first name, only the first customer record is returned:
In fact, InvalidOperationException will be thrown if there is not exactly one element in the sequence.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.linq.queryable.single.aspx
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Yukitoshi Suzuki |
Jan 30, 2009 |
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Page 375
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Example 16-1 does not contain any references to the listbox as described in paragraph above
nor on the bottom of page 377.
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Anonymous |
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Page 417
List of images |
Here are the correct URI values for the photos. Without these, the application does nothing and gives no error messages.
<local:Images x:Key="Presidents">
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/1gw_header_sm.jpg"
Name="George Washington" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/2ja_header_sm.jpg"
Name="John Adams" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/3tj_header_sm.jpg"
Name="Thomas Jefferson" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/4jm_header_sm.jpg"
Name="James Madison" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/5jm_header.jpg"
Name="James Monroe" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/6ja_header_sm.jpg"
Name="John Quincy Adams" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/7aj_header_sm.jpg"
Name="Andrew Jackson" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/8mv_header_sm.jpg"
Name="Martin Van Buren" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/9wh_header_sm.jpg"
Name="William H. Harrison" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/10jt_header_sm.jpg"
Name="John Tyler" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/11jp_header.jpg"
Name="James K. Polk" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/12zt_header_sm.jpg"
Name="Zachary Taylor" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/13mf_header_sm.jpg"
Name="Millard Fillmore" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/14fp_header_sm.jpg"
Name="Franklin Pierce" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/15jp_header_sm.jpg"
Name="James Buchanan" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/16al_header_sm.jpg"
Name="Abraham Lincoln" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/17aj_header_sm.jpg"
Name="Andrew Johnson" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/18ug_header_sm.jpg"
Name="Ulysses S. Grant" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/19rb_header_sm.jpg"
Name="Rutherford B. Hayes" />
<local:ImageURL
ImageURI="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/presidents/20jg_header_sm.jpg"
Name="James Garfield" />
</local:Images>
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Harold Bamford |
Sep 15, 2009 |
| PDF |
Page 437
Example 19-1 code |
There are two typos.
First, FileCopier's namespace should be "Windows_Forms_File_Copier" with this chapter's description (P420).
Second, calling FillDirectoryTree parameter should be "tvwDestination".
There is no control named "tvwTarget" (Table 19-1).
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Yukitoshi Suzuki |
Dec 14, 2008 |
| PDF |
Page 456
not applicable |
Missing section on 'Creating type at runtime' (reflection emit) which is suggested to be after the section on Late Binding. The chapter ends all of a sudden moving on to the Chapter about Threading and Synchronization.
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Anonymous |
Jul 04, 2008 |
| Printed |
Page 471
multiple |
Example 21-2 makes at least a few mentions of there being 3 threads, but the actual example code has 4 threads. The last mention of 3 threads is on the last line of the "Killing Threads" section on page 474.
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Anonymous |
Aug 29, 2011 |
| Printed |
Page 525
the example code |
In example 22-12 should implement the server, but the printed example contains the client code. The text states that, "... with the client following later in Example 22-13". Example 22-13, though, is about web streams. The complete server code, in fact, is not to be found anywhere in the chapter.
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Anonymous |
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Page 525
example 22-12 |
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:29:57 +0200
From: Jan Wibom <08.364207@telia.com>
To: booktech@oreilly.com
Subject: Concerning "Programming C# 3.0" by Jesse Liberty
Hi,
I am currently translating the above mentioned book to swedish for the
swedish edition of it, published by Pagina Forlags AB. While translating
chapter 22 I have found that some errors. At page 525, the example code
in example 22-12 should implement the server, but the printed example
contains the client code. The text states that, "... with the client
following later in Example 22-13". Example 22-13, though, is about web
streams. The complete server code, in fact, is not to be found anywhere
in the chapter.
I just wanted to turn your attention to this problem, if you�d want
correct the error for future editions.
Yours sincerely,
Jan Wibom
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Anonymous |
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Page 525
example 22-12 |
I just want to add yet another voice to say that Example 22-12 is a client source instantiation, and that the server source is completely missing.
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LionKimbro1 |
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Page 548
Adding Control to the Form |
When attempting to add ActiveX control AxCalcControl.dll I get an error dialog:
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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There are no components in 'D:\Downloads\AxCalcControl.dll' that can be placed on the toolbox.
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OK
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I've used AxImp, with Administrator rights, to recreate the DLLs but with the same result. I can use the control successfully with VB6.
Viz Studio 2008 SP1
Windows 7 Pro x64
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PodHunter |
Dec 14, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 567
Bottom of page |
Missing entry for the 'var' (anonymous type) keyword in the C# Keywords section, as well as in the index.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 567
Bottom of page |
Missing entry for the 'var' (anonymous type) keyword in the C# Keywords section, as well as in the index.
Cheers,
David
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Anonymous |
Jun 06, 2008 |
| Printed |
Page 649
Example 15-2 Line 18 |
The code listing reads:
Customer donna = dc.Customers.Single(c => c.FirstName == "Donna");");
It appears that the last three characters of the line -- "); -- were repeated as they do not make any sense in the syntax of the code.
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Anonymous |
Jun 26, 2008 |