Setting Label Text and Style

As in Windows forms, you can set the text in a label with the Text property of Label objects. Here's how that looks in the Labels example when you click the button in that example:

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
        ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Label1.Text = "Hello!"
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    End Sub

You can see the results of this code in Figure 15.9.

You also can set the border style of labels with the BorderStyle property, and the border width with the BorderWidth property. For example, I'm setting the BorderStyle property of the label in the Labels example on the CD-ROM to a dashed border:

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
        ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Label1.Text = "Hello!"
        Label1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Dashed
    End Sub