Objects not accessible because they are "Friends"

Question

With Arc10 and VS2008 / VB.net, I'm getting the following error:

"(object) is not accessible in this context because it is 'Friend'"

for esriUnits and tagRECT.

Any ideas why they are inaccessible, especially constants like esriUnits?

JasonTipton · Answer

The reason that you have to call the full name is that the namespace isn't imported. Go to Properties>References and check the appropriate namespace

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KentRothrock · Answer

Thanks for the post Marc.  That helped me out.

RandyHauser · Answer

With Arc10 and VS2008 / VB.net, I'm getting the following error:

"(object) is not accessible in this context because it is 'Friend'"

for esriUnits and tagRECT.

Any ideas why they are inaccessible, especially constants like esriUnits?

Evidently they need to be called as a full reference:

ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.esriUnits
ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.esriUnits.esriInches

..etc