Hi,

On Page 83 the book gives a sample of how to use the <asp:listbox> control. I found the compiler could not recognize that I had declared "msg as string" in the line "If Page.IsPostBack Then Dim msg as string"

I finally took "Dim msg as string" and put it in a separate line above. So here's how my code now reads, and my compiler finally accepted it:

 Dim msg as String
         If Page.IsPostBack then

         If list1.Items(0).Selected Then msg = msg & list1.Items(0).Text & "<br />"
         If list1.Items(1).Selected Then msg = msg & list1.Items(1).Text & "<br />"
         If list1.Items(2).Selected Then msg = msg & list1.Items(2).Text & "<br />"
             If msg <> "" then


Has anyone else found the same problem?

Kara

Was the code that gave the error all on one line?? If so, you could have moved the Dim statement to the next line as well: Should work equally well if msg is only used inside the If statement.

Cheers,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
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