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.
How to: Declare an Array Variable. You declare an array variable the same way as any other variable, by using the Dim statement. You follow the variable name with one or more pairs of parentheses to indicate that it is to hold an array rather than a scalar (a variable that contains a single value).