Passing in variables

I'm trying to get some values from my textboxes on my GUI. Here is what I have so far, during the debug it shows x and y as 0. The values are not getting there for some reason. Any ideas?

Code:

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x.Equals(txtValue1.Text);
y.Equals(txtValue2.Text);
                       
total = x + y;
                       
Console.WriteLine(x);
Console.WriteLine(y);
                       
total.ToString(lblDisplay.Text);
       
lblDisplay.Refresh();

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