Your [Mike D's] last paragraph should have been left off.
My reading of the title this NG is that it is a VB NET
newsgroup.
The OP cross posted to two groups, one of which (the dotnet.languages.vb
one) is the correct group for the product he is using and the other of
which
is not. The OP needs to know that he should not have posted to the
Classic
VB group regardless of whether or not his post was also cross posted to
the
correct group.
To the OP: The comp.lang.basic.visual.misc group is the real Visual Basic
newsgroup and the last and final version of Visual Basic is VB6. The
product
you are using, which is misleadingly called Visual Basic 2008 Express, is
NOT real Visual Basic. It is a variant of what is commonly called VB.Net
and
your questions regarding it should NOT be either posted or cross posted
to
the real Visual Basic group.
Generally, apart from a few very simple exceptions, VB6 code does not
work
in VB.Net and VB.Net code does not work in VB6, and neither of them will
compile or run in the IDE of the other. They are as different as chalk
and
cheese.
Unfortunately, in order to deliberately confuse the punters and to
dishonestly maximize profits, Micro$oft sprinkled their new and otherwise
completely different product with some Basic sounding constructs and gave
it
a Basic sounding name and they pretended that it is the next version of
Visual Basic when in fact it is not. The name they have given to their
new
product, the one you are using, is a deliberate lie. Micro$oft are lying
about it in much the same way that a food manufacturer would be lying if
he
stuck "Cup a Soup" labels on packets of long grain rice, nothwithstanding
the fact that he might be the registered owner of the name "Cup a Soup".
A
food manufacturer of course would be prosecuted in the courts of law for
such a deliberately dishonest act, but consumer law in most countries is
still decades behind the times and has not yet got its act together in
respect of software, although the EU is rapidly working towards it (which
is
why Micro$oft hates us over here).
Your erroneous posting is not your fault of course because you have been
misled by Micro$oft and in the circumstances it is not surprising that
you
have been taken in by Micro$oft's subterfuge and have cross posted to the
wrong group. Micro$oft would never openly acknowledge their dishonesty of
course, but they have tacitly admitted to it by creating a new and
completely different newsgroup on their own public servers for their new
and
completely different product. To summarise, one of the groups you have
posted to, as mentioned above, is for the real Visual Basic and you
should
not post or cross post any of your VB.Net questions to that group. If you
have questions about the imposter then you should post them to the
imposter's own newsgroup at:
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
Mike
