Form Banner Text problem

[Onamission71]

When in design view I can change the text displayed in the banner of the form(next to the icon) but when I build the code and test the form doesn't have the text displayed??
It's probably an easy fix but I just can't work it out can someone help please? I'm using VB express 2008

 

[jmcilhinney]

That area is officially called the "title bar". Are you sure that the build is successful? If you make other changes, do they appear when you run the project?

 

[Onamission71]

Yes the build is successful and if I make changes they do work when the project is run.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Does the form display any text at all? Are you ABSOLUTELY sure that you don't have any code anywhere that would be changing the text of the form?

 

[Onamission71]

Problem solved! I was using "Dim Text As String" for displaying text in a textbox and VB.Net obviously doesn't like using TEXT as a varible.

 

[jmcilhinney]

It's not that it doesn't like Text as a variable name but if you use the same name for a variable as you have for an existing property then the results can be unpredictable. You need to think about what names are already in use when naming your own types, etc.