When you explicitly refer to variables in a module, such as Module1.Variable1, the following error occurs:

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When you compile Windows CE projects in Visual Basic all module information is concatenated together and module names are not retained. Thus, making the module variables public and referring to them elsewhere in the project without the module name avoids the error. Ensure that the names of those variables do not conflict with any public variables declared in any form or code module.

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This behavior is by design.

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      Option Explicit
      Public VariableInModule
					

      Option Explicit

      Private Sub Form_Click()
         'This does not work:
         Module1.VariableInModule = "Test"
      End Sub

      Private Sub Form_Load()
         'This works:
         VariableInModule = "Test"
         MsgBox "VariableInModule = " & VariableInModule
      End Sub