Learn To Program With Visual Basic.Net
Smiley Publishing
0072-131-772
Errata and Source Code
(Last Update: September 7, 2008)

Errata list

Chapter 1

None that we know of

Chapter 2

• Page 76. 21KB should be 31KB.

Chapter 3

• Page 91. Screen shot. Indicates "Report a Visual Studio.Net issue" appears in the Start Window. This is a screen shot from the Beta version--does not appear in the actual production Start Window.
• Page 92. 3rd Paragraph. Indicates there is a button called "Create Project". There is no such button. Select "New Project" instead.
• Pages 92 and 93. c:\VBFiles won't show up in the Location box until you make changes indicated on page 112.
• Page 93, last sentence indicates to select the "Create Project" button--select the "New Project" button instead.
• Page 94. Format menu will not appear until a control is added to the Form.
• Page 103, Build Menu screenshot. After renaming the project, this screen shot should indicate "Build ClasssDemo", "Rebuild ClassDemo".
• Page 104, Debug Menu.  By default, F11 is Step Into. F8 was Step Into in the VB6 world. If you want to retain VB6 keyboard settings, select Tools-Options-Environment-Keyboard, and select Visual Basic 6 as the Keyboard Matching Scheme.
• Page 110, Tools Menu. This is the Enterprise view--depending upon the version of VB.Net you are running (or Visual Studio) this screen shot may not match your view.

Chapter 4

• Page 136, Step 6. You'll find that if you change the Name property of the Form to frmChina, you won't need to make the change indicated in Step 7--the Class name will automatically change. 
• Page 137, Step 8. I indicate that after changing the name of the Class, frmMain(China) will appear in the left-hand drop-down ListBox. Actually, it will display frmMain.
• Page 145, Property list. The Name property of the form is indicted as a 'documentation purposes only' property--as I mentioned above, changing it also changes the name of the class.
• Page 150, Exercise 4-3. In order to prevent the form from being maximized, set the FormBorderStyle to FixedDialog NOT FixedSingle as the book indicates.

Chapter 5

• Page 182, under the Name property. "Every object in Visual Basic, with the exception of the form, has a Name property." This is incorrect. The Form does have a Name property.
• Pages 184-185, Exercise 5-12. Instructions 3 through 8 refer to making changes to the checkboxes that appear inside of GroupBox2. The references to GroupBox2 should be GroupBox1. 
• Page 201, Exercise 5-21. Change the Enabled Property of the Timer Control to True. 
• Page 206, Excercise 5-22. In order to change the TabIndex properties, you will need to fire 'unlock' the controls which you may have locked, based on the Caution listed on Page 184.

Chapter 6

• Page 241, Exercise 6-5. Title of the exercise should be "Displaying Numbers from 1 to 10---The Loop Structure"
• Page 246. Debug.Print is no longer supported (it was in the Beta version). Use ? intCounter in the Command Window instead

Chapter 7

• Page 275, list of Data Types. You'll notice that not all of the data types we discuss in the rest of the chapter are here--sorry!
• Page 279. At one time I say the Decimal Data type consumes 8 bytes of RAM--in another, 12 bytes. 12 bytes is correct.

Chapter 8

• Page 321, Exercise 8-4. There should be parentheses around the argument list to the Console.WriteLine methods (thanks Jonathan Spencer)

Chapter 9

• Page 366, Exercise 9-8, Step 2. The line of code beginning with strContinue = InputBox needs to be on a single line of code---either that, or place a line continuation character after the word 'InputBox', like this

        strContinue = InputBox _
            ("Should I continue?", "The Indefinite Loop", "Yes")

• Page 399, the message box displayed is incorrect based on the code entered on Page 398.
• Page 399, last sentence of paragraph 4. "intWheresTheSpace is equal to 1." should be "intWheresTheSpace is equal to 5."

Chapter 10

• Page 403, code. Notice that the Focus method is executed, and it's missing parentheses--when you type these will be inserted for you.

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

• Page 445, screenshots. List 'Assembly' as a value for the Modifier property. You most likely won't see Assembly as a choice.

Chapter 13

• Page 509, discussion of the loop. "Let's look at the body of the loop first. Amazingly, it consists of just this single line of code." Amazingly, there are two lines of code there---delete the second.

Chapter 14

• Page 551. Screenshot isn't exactly what you will see.
• Page 561. Screenshot isn't exactly what you will see.

Chapter 15

• Page 571, Exercise 15-2, step 2. The existing code for the mnuColorsCustom_Click event procedure uses the variable intRetValue not retValue as depicted here. It doesn't matter what you call it--just be consistent.

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