[RESOLVED] Assignment Problem

Dear All,

I cannot understand the reason for what is happening. I am using VB.Net 2008 Express.

I am trying to move a button on a form, the button status is unlocked. The code that I want to use is:

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Me.btnEnter.Location.Y = 474

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However, I get the error message, “Expression is a value and therefore cannot be the target of an assignment”

If I now code as follows, I get the error message, “Property access must assign to the property or use its value”

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Me.btnEnter.Location.Y

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The errors appear contradictory. Just to check, I wrote the following code:

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X = Me.btnEnter.Location.Y

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And when run I received the correct answer of 535.

What is happening? What am I missing?

Regards,

John

If you've looked closely at the Intellisense combobox, the Location property accepts/returns a System.Drawing.Point structure. To assign a new location to an existing control, you'll have to declare a new Point of the location in x,y co-ordinates and assign it to the Location property of that control.

For e.g.:

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Me.btnEnter.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(40,474)

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If you want to keep the X co-ordinate of the current location of the control but change the Y co-ordinate, you'd do it as:

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Me.btnEnter.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(Me.btnEnter.Location.X, 474)

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Point worth noting here is Intellisense is provided in the Studio for a specific reason: to achieve what you want by writing correct code. :)

Hope it helps :)

garyjohn_2000,

thank you, that works.

but i have another question, which may sound dumb, but i don't know how to get to "intellisense".

what do i do to see it?

regards,

john

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Originally Posted by johnmtb

I am using VB.Net 2008 Express.

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All Express editions come with the same Studio as Visual Studio editions. May have less features, but they never compromise on the Intellisense feature.

Intellisense is what looks like this:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...telliSense.jpg

garyjohn_2000,

it appears that i have been using intellisense, but did not understand how to read it correctly.

thank you.

regards,

john