{"id":17335,"date":"2024-03-15T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T14:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-type-on-a-form-in-vb\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T10:39:41","slug":"how-to-type-on-a-form-in-vb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-type-on-a-form-in-vb\/","title":{"rendered":"How to type on a form in VB?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To type on a VB form, you can use the TextBox control. The TextBox control is a type of control used to receive and display text, allowing users to type on it either by keyboard input or directly setting the text.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a simple example demonstrating how to type on a VB form.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add a TextBox control to a VB form, which can be added to the form through drag-and-drop.<\/li>\n<li>In the windows form code, you can use the TextBox&#8217;s Text property to set or retrieve the text content.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here is an example code that will print &#8220;Hello World!&#8221; on a TextBox control when a button is clicked.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">Private<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">Sub<\/span> Button1_Click(sender <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">As<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-type\">Object<\/span>, e <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">As<\/span> EventArgs) <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">Handles<\/span> Button1.Click\r\n    TextBox1.<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">Text<\/span> = <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Hello World!\"<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">End<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">Sub<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the above example, the Button1_Click event handler types &#8220;Hello World!&#8221; onto the TextBox control by setting the Text property of TextBox1.<\/p>\n<p>Note: If you want to input text through the keyboard, users can directly type text on the TextBox control. 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