This, I'm sure, has a very basic answer... but I'm lost as to what it is:

I have a Web Forms page that is intended to allow a user to edit data from a textbox. I'm trying to keep as much code as possible in VB Codebehind (simply because it's there & I want to learn to use it).

When the page is initially loaded, that textbox if filled with text retrieved from a database. The user makes any changes needed to that information and clicks Submit to update it.

What happens at this point, when I call for "txtContents.text" to update my DB, is that the server is using the data that was originally loaded into the textbox during the Page_Load event, and is completely oblivious to the changes made by the client, and no update actually occurs.

What is it that I need to do to retirive the edited info out of that textbox?