Hello,

Firstly I am new to C# and ASP.NET and I would like to say that so far I am really finding this book well written the examples easy to follow. I am only on chapter 5 but so far so good.

I was also really surprised that the forum actually has responses from the author and they are current!

My question is I was going through one of the examples in the book where it asks to set the dropdownlist ID to 1stOperator. I am using Visual Studio 2008 and I keep getting a message that this is invalid?

I looked in the errata and I don't see a correction to this. Is this due to rules in Visual Studio that do not allow you to set the first character in a variable to be a Number? If so, I am assuming that VWD allows this,why?

Mike

Hi there,

Glad you like the book so much. And yes, I do my best to answer each and every question I receive here.

Regarding your problem: it's not 1st as in first, but lst as in list (with an l). So, rename 1stOperator to lstOperator and it should work.

And the problem has been added to the errata (for page 120):

http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...Cd-ERRATA.html

Cheers,

Imar

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That make sense. Thank you for the clarification.