text box into a string

[Daniboi]

Hi, i am attempting to convert a text box on a winForm into string so i can display the results on a message box. i have treid to convert to string using the code seen bellow however to no avail. anyone got any tips?

       surname = Convert.ToString(textBoxText.Text);

 

[Ecchi]

the .text property is a string.

[Master Disaster]

You should probably declare some blank variables, use the text box to set the variable then just call the variable as the message box content

[Daniboi]

22 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

You should probably declare some blank variables, use the text box to set the variable then just call the variable as the message box content

how do you call the variabe from a messgae box?

 

[Franck]

You should honestly start with console applications. You seems to have lots of very very basic issues which are all covered in basic console programming. You are currently trying to run before learning to walk.

[Eigenvektor]

48 minutes ago, Daniboi said:

how do you call the variabe from a messgae box?

 

That was probably a typo. You can't "call" variables. You pass them into methods as arguments when you call those.

 

Meaning you create a message box, then use the text from from your text box to set the message box text before you open it.

 

string caption = "Hello";
string message = textBoxText.Text;
MessageBoxButtons buttons = MessageBoxButtons.YesNo;

MessageBox.Show(message, caption, buttons);

 

[Daniboi]

3 hours ago, Franck said:

You should honestly start with console applications. You seems to have lots of very very basic issues which are all covered in basic console programming. You are currently trying to run before learning to walk.

i have done console stuff but my class moved on

 

[Daniboi]

3 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

That was probably a typo. You can't "call" variables. You pass them into methods as arguments when you call those.

 

Meaning you create a message box, then use the text from from your text box to set the message box text before you open it.

 

string caption = "Hello";
string message = textBoxText.Text;
MessageBoxButtons buttons = MessageBoxButtons.YesNo;

MessageBox.Show(message, caption, buttons);

 

so how can i get this to work?

 

 string surname = textBoxText.text

 

MessageBox.Show("The total cost is " + cost.ToString("c") + " and the amount you're ordering is " + quanty + " the colour is " + colour +
                "and the fabic is "+fabType+" You should collect it on the " + date + ".When collecting please refer to the surname which is" + surname);

for me it comes up blank

[Eigenvektor]

9 hours ago, Daniboi said:

so how can i get this to work?

 

 string surname = textBoxText.text

 

MessageBox.Show("The total cost is " + cost.ToString("c") + " and the amount you're ordering is " + quanty + " the colour is " + colour +
                "and the fabic is "+fabType+" You should collect it on the " + date + ".When collecting please refer to the surname which is" + surname);

for me it comes up blank

What do you mean by "blank"? Are you trying to say the message box is empty? Cause that seems unlikely.

 

Or are you trying to say the surname is an empty string? In that case I would suspect the text box you're trying to get the text from and the message box on your UI you've entered text into are not the same. Maybe share a bit more of your actual code, because it's really hard to guess at what you're doing with such a small snippet.