A few months ago, I wrote an .HTA application to make life a little easier on the job. As I look at expanding the capabilities of this application, I am considering a move to VB.
The following code raises a design time error:
Error 1 'Public Property Left() As Integer' has no parameters and its return type cannot be indexed. \Visual Studio 2005\Projects\frmRMCxpress.vb 9 12 RMCxpress
If Left(txtHostName.Text, 1) = "\" Then
MsgBox("Remove leading and trailing \", MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly, "Help")
End If
Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this error is being raised. I don't see a thing wrong with the syntax. I also tried setting the focus to the control txtHostName prior to the code above.
Thanks.
Behaviour of Left() function
Marc EMILE
Sorry, my mistake... there is no Left function in the String class. You can use Substring from the String class or write Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left instead of simply Left.
Mark Shehan
Try
If txtHostName.Text.Left(1) = "\" Then
Left happens to be a property of the Form.
rebcharles
Thanks for the help, neither suggestion worked. I ended up doing away with the If/Then function entirely and used the Trim function instead. I just strip the bad stuff without any prompt at all which is where I was planning to end up anyway.
txtHostName.Text = txtHostName.Text.Trim(
"\") 'remove leading or trailing \txtHostName.Text = txtHostName.Text.Trim()
'remove leading and trailing spacestxtDomainName.Text = txtHostName.Text
falcon31
Try using the 'Left$' function instead of 'Left':
If Left$(txtHostName.Text, 1) = "\" Then
MsgBox("Remove leading and trailing \", MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly, "Help")
End If