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Label Control
Mostly used for read only static display of text using its text property

Autosize property lets the text resize itself automatically
Textalign-align text in label

Use a label control to define an access code for another control
Example:

• Drag a label to your form
• Set the text property and precede the access key with an (&) ampersand
• Set the UseMnemonic property to true
• Set the tab index to one less than the tab index of the control you want to get access

LinkLabel Control
Allows you to make a hyperlink in your form to open a web page or do some other action
Properties

Handle linkClicked event
Set linkVisited to true in this event

Example to set linkvisited to true and open browser
e.LinkVisited=true
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(“Http://www.learn-asp.net”)

• activeLinkColor
• Color of active links
• LinkColor
• Color of the link
• LinkVisited
• If link has been visited
• VisitedLinkColor
• Color of visited links
• LinkBehavior
• 4 possible values
• systemDefault
• AlwaysUnderline
• HoverUnderline
• NeverUnderline

Example:

• Create a project with 2 forms
• Name the second form newForm
• Add linklabel
• Set text property
• Double click linklabel to get to the default event
• Add this code:

newForm.show()
system.diagnostics.Process.Start(“www.starkstate.edu”)
linklabel1.linkvisited=true

RichTextBox
Allows Bold, Italic and the ability to add pictures
Provides loadfile() and savefile() to save contents as RTF document
Selection properties

• Selectedtext
• SelectionLength
• SelectionStart
• SelectionColor
• SelectionBackColor
• SelectionFont
• SelectionAlignment

example
richtextbox1.SelectionColor=Colors.Red

enableAutodragDrop- allows you to drag selections to different parts of documents

selectionChanged event

To place an image inside a richtextbox use the copy and paste features of clipboard

• Copy to clipboard
• Move to desires position in textbox and paste it

Dim img as image=image.fromfile(Path.combine(Application.startupPath,”Picture.jpg”))
Clipboard.setimage(img)
Richtextbox1.selectionstart=0
Richtextbox1.paste()
Clipboard.clear()

PictureBox
Pic.image=system.drawing.image.fromfile(“mypicture.jpg”)
Pic.sizemode=pictureboxsizemode.stretchimage