On page 72 or therabouts, I state that you should put the Dim statement under the Inherits statement. This is a cut-and-paste error, left over from when I used a web project for that chapter. Windows Forms doesn't use the Inherits statement anymore in a default project.
Just put the statement right after the Public Class statement. Sorry about the confusion. The good news is that was the only mistake that has been found (so far)!
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