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Concatenation of String and Control in VB

I am having an issue integrating Skype html codes with my .vb tool to edit the mood profile. 

  Private Sub Button3_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click

    Skype.CurrentUserProfile.RichMoodText = "<spinner></spinner>" & TextBox2 & "<spinner></spinner>"

End Sub

Although this works with the other html codes, it refuses to work for the spinner tag, as well as the blink tag. I have tried replacing the & with + to no avail. Here is the error I get: 

Severity    Code    Description Project File    Line    Suppression State
Error   BC30452 Operator '&' is not defined for types 'String' and 'TextBox'.
Solution

  • & is used to join two strings together. TextBox2 is the name of a textbox control and the control cannot be joined to a string.

    Try using the text property of the control instead

    Skype.CurrentUserProfile.RichMoodText = "<spinner></spinner>" & TextBox2.Text & "<spinner></spinner>"