Adding code question

zoidberg · September 24th, 2006, 11:58 AM

Hi all,

I'm working through the book and am up to P190 (mid-way through the text editor app). Going well but one question.

The text says that a shortcut to opening the code editor is to right click on the form and select "View Code". This is fine, but I get a blank page code editor (without any of the class declaration stuff at the top). If I the section beginning

Code:

Public Property StatusText() as String....

to this page, I get an error when I run the project about not being in a namespace.

However, I can also get the code editor up by double clicking on one of the form controls. This brings up the editor but it has a few dozen lines of stuff in it that I'm not sure should be there or not. It starts off:

Code:

<Global.Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DesignerGenerated()> _
Partial Class TextEditor
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

    'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
    <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCode()> _

Anyone know what both scenarios mean (blank code editor from right click view code, and full code editor with partial class from double clicking a form control)?

Thanks v much in advance.
Simon

Thearon · October 5th, 2006, 02:25 PM

Simon,

Are you using Visual Basic 2005? Have you customized the view in Solution Explorer to show all files? When you right click on the form and choose View Source for a blank form, all you should see is the class declaration. If none of this helps, reinstall VS.

Thearon