Labels in Visual Basic

Question

In visual basic , when you create a label in form view (via click and drag) is it possible to make the label have both a string and a variable included in it?

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turns=1
label1.text = ("Turn:"(turns))

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for example , so that label 1 will display

*Turn 1*

Answer 1

label1.text = "Turn: " & turns.ToString()

Answer 2

Are you talking VB.Net, or something else?

In .Net:

turns = 1
Label1.Text = String.Format("Turn {0}", turns)

Answer 3

Every control has the Tag property which can store any object reference. However, you can't easily give a label a sort of "format string" and then make it update whenever you change a variable, if that's what you were thinking of.

If you were just talking about formatting the label to use a variable's value in the text, then you can't do that within the designer - you'll have to do it somewhere in the code (e.g. in the constructor, after the designer code has been called).