Visual Studio 2022 VB.Net not recognizing colon for multiple statements on one line.

Question

I am upgrading VB.NET projects from VS2015 to VS2022. Many lines use the colon for multiple statements on a single line, like

Try : If MyDb IsNot Nothing Then MyDb.Dispose() Catch : End Try  

This was, and should still be, acceptable per

Statements in Visual Basic | Microsoft Learn where it states, "You can have multiple statements on a single line separated by the colon (:) character."

Instead, I am getting errors like, "'Try' must end with a matching 'End Try'." I couldn't find any setting for this in Tools | Options. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Hi
This works OK

    Dim MyDb As String = "Freddy"  
    Try : If MyDb IsNot Nothing Then : MyDb = "Brian" : End If : Catch ex As Exception : End Try