bskiff

You were right. I went back where I got it, a tech book store. They opened another package and it had the MSDN disks but not the VB software. The guy would give me the disks until he called the publisher and found out what was supposed to be in the package. That kind of pissed me off but hopefully I will get them tomorrow. Thanks for the help, Bill

Should I have gotten an MSDN CD? It seems that is what it wants me to install from.

I purchased VB.NET standard version (learning edition). Apparently the help files are on the MSDN disk? Is there any other way to get these files? Seems silly to get the software without help files. Thanks, Bill

Thanks Bucky! That was it!

I'm new here. My name is Bill and I might be bugging you guy regularly now! I have been developing applications for about 12 years now. I am now learning VB.net. It is very similar to the Powerbuilder that I've been using for the past 7 years. I am working my way though the tutorials in the book 'Visual Basic.Net Step by Step'. I'm still in the beginning of the book. I am add script to a menu clicked event. I copied the following code right out of the book: OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "Bitmaps (*.bmp)|*.bmp" If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then PictureBox1.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile _ (OpenFileDialog1.FileName) mnuCloseItem.Enabled = True End If I get an undeclared variable error on 'OpenFileDialog1'. When I look at they solution in the book, it has the same code and no error. Can someone point me in the right direction to track this down? I don't want to just copy the books solution without understanding. Thanks, Bill