Statement is Not a Valid Namespace

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

you cant put that outside a class definition. This is not VB6 where there was no visible definitions for class. When you add a new class to your app, the class definition is added for you..

Public Class Class1
' Code in here


End Class

Cheers Cander.
I am getting to grips with this slowly. I am originally a Java programmer trying to make the leap accross. Does that mean that if any variables that are declared in a public class are globally accessible making the general decs bit redundant.

Mike

They are only accessible to the class. But if you make the variables public, then you can access them outside the class using standard object oriented programming.

classname.variablename

VB.NET, except for syntax, follows much the same rules and skills as java does, so just keep that in mind.

To extend your knowledge , you can do this :

VB Code:

Namespace mYnSpace
 
Public Enum a
        i = 0
        x = 2
    End Enum
 
Public Delegate Sub Dlg()
 
Public Class Class1
 
'CODE HERE 
 
End Class
 
End Namespace