Microsoft KB Archive/215401

= BUG: Cannot Use a Constant to Define the Size of Array in VBCE =

Article ID: 215401

Article Last Modified on 10/20/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0
 * Microsoft eMbedded Visual Basic 3.0

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This article was previously published under Q215401



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to use a defined constant as the size of an array, the following compile error results:

Compile Error: Expected integer constant



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
 Create a new Windows CE project in either Visual Basic or eMbedded Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.  Paste the following code into Form1: Const cbFormatsNum = 14 Dim cbFormats(cbFormatsNum)  Run the project.

The error message mentioned in the "Symptoms" section occurs.

Additional query words: vbce vbce6 wce evb

Keywords: kbbug kbtoolkit kbpending KB215401

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