Question

I am trying to establish connection to a database through:

Dim sqCon As SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Database=MegaDatabase;Integrated_Security=SSPI")

The problem is only on this line where it tells me that:

Array bounds cannot appear in type specifiers

The same problem does NOT appear in any of my other projects though I use this same format.

I need someone to tell me what exactly is wrong with this and how may I solve this.

Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

That (original version, now changed) doesn’t look anything like valid syntax. There’s no opening " character and there’s too many ) characters at the end.

However, even with the fixes, I think what you probably wanted to do was to dim it as a new variable, something like:

Dim sqCon As New SqlConnection ("DataSource=...")