I worked in networking for seven years or so but always had a mental block with programming. I had no formal IT training and I felt there was some conceptual "first step" I was missing that made programming so baffling and intimidating. So I faked it by using other people's scripts, batch files etc.

Anyway, I just started screwing around with VB.NET for a hobby project. I have some books and links and whatever. I am having the damndest time just getting started. I would appreciate it if I could tell you what I would like to do, a seemingly very basic procedure not directly addressed in my book, and you could tell me how to do.

Declare an Integer (or Short) variable.
Have the user type a number into a textbox.
That number is the variable.
Display that variable in a label.

Seems like a no-brainer. Totally first-day of programming 101 type of thing but I can't get it to work.

Ultimately I would like to add changes to that number based on a variety of other information that the user has included but if I can't even get it too...

Know what I am saying.?

Thanks

Hello there...I'm a beginner to vb.net myself, but I think if you try the following it might be just what you're look'n for:
[color=#FF6666]Open a new project, place a textbox, a label (do'nt forget to clear it's text property) & a button on to the form.
Double click the button control to go to the projects code view, and enter the following code:



Once you enter the number into the textbox & click the button, your number will appear as the label text property, the textbox will clear & regain the focus.
Hope this proves helpful...maybe some of the more experienced guys could give better advice, who knows?