Can't initialize variables

auguri · March 26th, 2007, 04:46 PM

Hi Folks,

I'm using VB 2005 for web page development. I can't get an darn thing to compile in here. It's like upsidedown world. This compiles:

Code:

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic

Public Class Class1
    Dim mystr As String = "bla"
End Class

whereas, this won't:

Code:

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic

Public Class Class1
    Dim mystr As String = ""
    mystr = "bla"
End Class

Nor will:

Code:

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic

Public Class Class1
    Dim mystr As String = "bla"
    mystr = "somethingelse"
End Class

They both give the same declaration expected error:
error BC30188: Declaration expected.

Please help me out of this dark land.

auguri · March 26th, 2007, 05:05 PM

Oops, looks like you can't do this outside a method.