Declaration expected in VB dll

First of all thanking everyone....

I am currently working on VB. I am using Visual Studio 2008.

The piece of code below is a console application which builds without any error.

    Imports System.Net


Module Module1

    Public Sub Main()

        Dim address As IPAddress
        Dim remoteIP As System.Net.IPEndPoint
        Dim socketAddress As System.Net.SocketAddress

        Try
            address = IPAddress.Parse("192.168.0.187")
            remoteIP = New System.Net.IPEndPoint(address, 0)

            socketAddress = remoteIP.Serialize()

            Console.WriteLine("Address Family :" & remoteIP.AddressFamily.ToString())
            Console.WriteLine("IP :" & remoteIP.Address.ToString() & "Port :" & remoteIP.Port.ToString())
            Console.WriteLine("Socket address :" & socketAddress.ToString())


        Catch ex As Exception
            Console.WriteLine(ex.StackTrace.ToString())


        End Try

    End Sub


End Module

In the next program which is a dll the same gives error saying "Declaration Expected for addr, remoteIP and socketAddr"

Imports System.Net

Public Class Class1


End Class
Public Class ethernet

    Dim addr As IPAddress
    Dim remoteIP As System.Net.IPEndPoint开发者_Go百科
    Dim socketAddr As System.Net.SocketAddress

    addr = IPAddress.Parse("192.168.0.187")
    remoteIP = New System.Net.IPEndPoint(addr,0)

    socketAddr = remoteIP.Serialize()



End Class

Can anybody tell me why is this happening...

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Your code in the second class ethernet is not contained within a Method, therefore you are only declaring the addr, remoteIP and socketAddr variables.

To make that work just put the code in a method, like:

Public Class ethernet
    Public Function SerializeSocket(address As String) As System.Net.SocketAddress
        Dim addr As IPAddress = IPAddress.Parse("192.168.0.187")
        Dim remoteIP As System.Net.IPEndPoint = New System.Net.IPEndPoint(addr,0)
        Return remoteIP.Serialize()
    End Sub
End Class