Clearing data held in a text box

[crazymarvin]

Whats better to use;

TextBox.Clear

or

Textbox.Text = ""

I'd allways been taught to use second method, however the text book i was looking at, used the Clear prorpety.

 

[JohnH]

They both work the same for clearing the text.

But consider that you have a method that does something and sets the text, sometimes that text is empty. Now you would probably code this method like this:

Sub something1(ByVal input As String)
    input = input & input
    TextBox1.Text = input
End Sub

The alternative would be ridiculous:

Sub something2(ByVal input As String)
    input = input & input
    If input = "" Then
        TextBox1.Clear()
    Else
        TextBox1.Text = input
    End If
End Sub

Here are two more ways of resetting the string value of Text property:

TextBox1.Text = String.Empty
TextBox1.Text = Nothing