Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook
by Matthew MacDonald

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated March 4, 2008.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


(5)  4th paragraph;
When an error is encountered in the sample code the Error Dialog box appears and in
order to get the 'Edit and Continue' feature of VB 2005 to work you are supposed to
click the "Enable Editing" link.

This link is not there on a fresh install of Visual Studio 2005 Pro. The 'Edit and
Continue' feature works anyway if you exit from the error dialog box and add the
correct line to code and drag the yellow pointer to it. There is no need to click an
"Enable Editing" link, that appears to be non-existant anyway.


(17)  How Do I Do That? Paragraph;
The menu item View->Property Editing View doesn't exist in VS 2005. Was it dropped
from the IDE?


[58] Evaluate Conditions Separately with Short-Circuit Logic paragraph;
On page 58 the book explains that the AndAlso and OrElse logical operators are newly added in Visual Basic 2005. This is incorrect. Where I work we currently use Visual Basic 2003 / .NET 1.1 verison. In the 2003 / .NET 1.1 version the AndAlso and OrElse logical operators are present and fully functional.

I admit that I did find some MSDN links that make it appear that AndAlso and OrElse were newly added in VB 2005. But here is an MSDN link that confirms presence of AndAlso and OrElse in VB 2003:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wz3k228a(vs.71).aspx


{83}  7th line, 2nd paragraph;
stop resizing ... IsSplitterFixed property to False
should be
stop resizing ... IsSplitterFixed property to True


(185)  Example source code at the bottom of the page;
The "Connection = ..." statement at Public Sub Main() says:

Connection = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("Connection")
it should say
Connection = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("Connection")


[192] Section: "Edit an XML Document with XPathNavigator;
The methods described (AppendChild and SetValue) exist in the 2.0 framework, but if called produce a "Specified method is not supported" exception. Microsoft apparently has not implemented the XPath update capabilities.