End of Statement expected in concatenating a message string

Question

Im new to programming and I cannot figure out why it says End of Statement Expected under EventInteger.ToString() I tried to copy the example in my VB book but it's not working.

MessageString = "Total Daily Sales:" &
        DailyTotalDecimal.ToString("C") &
        Environment.NewLine & Environment.Newline &
        "Total Number of Orders:" EventInteger.ToString()

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '13 at 23:11

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The line-continuation character in VB is _. Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141513

To continue a statement from one line to the next, type a space followed by the line-continuation character [the underscore character on your keyboard (_)].

Example:

MessageString = "Total Daily Sales:" & _
        DailyTotalDecimal.ToString("C") & _
        Environment.NewLine & Environment.Newline & _
        "Total Number of Orders:" & EventInteger.ToString() 'you were missing a &

answered Mar 22 '13 at 23:11

mechanical_meat

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Oops! Just deleted my comment ;-) Sorry! – neutrino Mar 22 '13 at 23:14
No need to apologise. Thanks for commenting – mechanical_meat Mar 22 '13 at 23:14
I finally figured out what you were pointing out. I needed the & before EventsInteger.ToSting(). What is sad is you put the correction on that line and I still missed it. BUT, I got it and everything works now Thanks! – Steven Bruffy Mar 22 '13 at 23:25

End of Statement expected in concatenating a message string

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