'Finally' cannot appear outside a 'Try' statement

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Finally is used to complete a Try...Catch...Finally block; hence it can only appear once at the end of the block. Either you have an unnecessary Finally, or your Finally statement appears outside the bounds of its corresponding Try block.

Error ID: BC30382

To correct this error

  1. Locate and remove the unnecessary Finallystatement.

  2. Move the Finally statement to the appropriate location in your code.

See Also

Concepts

Structured Exception Handling Overview for Visual Basic

Reference

Try...Catch...Finally Statement (Visual Basic)