creating a text object

creating a text object

• CI2

  maybe I should have said:Can you make text act like a control
  

  
  

• budgens

  hi,
  
  what do you mean with creating a textobject.
  
  Do you mean:
  
  - a string
  - a label
  - a textbox
  - a richtextbox
  
  

• Computer_Man_With_Questions

  By putting [ and ] you can escape the name between them. In this case, since string is a built in keyword in Visual Basic .NET, the compiler would have treated it as the keyword string instead of the type name String.

  In this particular case (assuming that you are Importing the System namespace) they just happen to mean the same thing (a string in Visual Basic maps to the System.String class in the .NET framework.

  For a more informative example, see:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbls7/html/vblrfvbspec2_2.asp

  Best regards,
  Johan Stenberg

  
  
  

• Dave Poole

  There are many ways to create a string, for example:
  
  Dim s As String = ""
  
  What may have tripped you up is that Strings don't have a argument-less constructor, which means that you can't do something like:
  
  Dim newString As String = New String() ' <-- Error! Can't do this!
  
  Since strings are immutable (you can't change a string after it has been created) it doesn't make sense to have an empty constructor.
  
  Best regards,
  Johan Stenberg
  
  
  

• sirluke34

  For read only text, use a label control and set its text property.
  For read/write text, use a textbox control and set its text property.
  
  Best regards,
  Johan Stenberg
  
  

  
  
  

• JeffGrizzle

  Mr. Stenberg;

  I have come across the syntax,

  Dim NewString As [String] = [String].Empty

  How does this syntax change the 'standard' way of decalring a string variable Is this related to a 'string object'

  Dim NewString as String = String.Empty

  
  

• Bontje

  a string
  
• creating a text object