Initializing shared struct members

[snarfblam]

I have a struct named "Screen." By best guess is that my problems are somehow related to a name conflict with the System.Windows.Forms.Screen class. Here is my problem:

 

I have shared (static in c#, i believe) members with initializers in the declaration (Shared i As Integer = 7 / int i = 7; ). I am recieving errors that "initializers on structure members are valid only for constants." When I change the name of the struct, all my errors dissapear...

[HJB417]

for structs, intialzing values can only be done in constructors unless the value is declared as a const.

[snarfblam]

I thought that shared members were a different case. I changed the name of the struct and the error for the illegal initializers dissapeared. Other errors appeared though because of the reference to a nonexistant type (due to the name change) and must have caused to compiler for some reason to ignore the illegal initializers, hence my confusion.

[HJB417]

ya, you're right, though you shouldn't need to change your object name.