I am new to VB and VB.NET so be gentle.
I am trying to declare 2 global variables in the general declaration section of my code as follows:

Option Explicit On

Public Const gcstrServer As String = "Server" & vbLf _
Dim txtLogon As String = "MS Exchange Server"
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This is giving me an error for both variable declarations:

"Statement is not a valid namespace"

What am I doing wrong? Any advice is much appreciated

Many Thanks

Mike Jones