Understanding Bond Ratings. There are over 80,000 issuers of municipal bonds in the United States. If you are thinking about buying municipal bonds, you should become familiar with credit ratings. As we stated in the previous chapter, credit risk should be your paramount concern. One data point to consider when evaluating the credit risk of a potential municipal bond is the bondâs rating. There are 3 major rating agencies that evaluate thousands of issuers and their municipal bonds.
But you don't have to know what the values are. You can assign values straight from a Textbox into the position of your array. With that code, whatever you typed into the Textboxes on your Form would be stored into the positions of your array.
Based on this system of indexing, to locate a member of an array, use its index in the group. Imagine you declare and initialize an array as follows: To locate the value of the 3 rd member of the array, you would type distance[2]. In the same way, the 1st member of the array can be located with distance[0].