I am going through the code in chapter 3. I cannot get the code in the book on page 68 regarding the structs to work. As soon as I start to key in anything following the initial struct, VS2015 shows an error saying that a } was expected. Not sure how to get around this.

Found that the answer had to do with the code being in the wrong place in the class. Moved it outside the main mtehod and everything worked.

Glad you found the solution. Yes, you can declare structs (and classes) at the top level (directly inside the namespace) or inside a struct/class, but not inside a method.

Rod

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I personally like to put classes in a separate file anyway, makes for cleaner code. I presume you can do that with structs too?

Yes you can. Authors sometimes put classes or structs in the same file just to make it easier to explain and to keep all of the code together, but many people use separate files for each piece of the program.

One easy way to make a struct in a separate file is to use Project > Add Class and then change the class keyword to struct.

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