Oh. Then why didn't it just tell me that? Was the compiler making a certain assumption I've not learned yet? From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher Coale Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 5:42 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: another interesting C# error I don't see You have an extra closing curly brace. Erase the second to the last one, and you should be good. On 7/3/2011 2:40 PM, Katherine Moss wrote: Hi all, I've got two C# errors going on here that don't seem to make sense. In the first, I get the following output from the error list windows of VS 2010: "type or namespace definition, or end of file expected", and the second is "The name console does not exist in the current context". What did I do this time? Thanks. Katherine