[RESOLVED] Assignment Problem

[johnmtb]

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:

Me.btnEnter.Location.Y = 474

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”

Me.btnEnter.Location.Y

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

X = Me.btnEnter.Location.Y

And when run I received the correct answer of 535.

What is happening? What am I missing?

Regards,

John

[garyjohn_2000]

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.:

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

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:

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

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

[johnmtb]

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

[garyjohn_2000]

I am using VB.Net 2008 Express.

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:

[johnmtb]

garyjohn_2000,

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

thank you.

regards,

john