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I am back again

Yes I finally decided to continue on with my programming efforts. I would like to be able to refer to myself as a master programmer, but I may not have that much time, after all I am almost 80 years old. Right now I'm delving into C++ and finding it a little bit interesting, but it is early I've only been at it for a day and 1/2 now and already I am having questions. I am taking a course at UDemi but they never move along fast enough so I am always exploring ahead of the instructor as I am doing now. And I have a question? I need to be able to test an integer variable to be sure that the user enters integer data. So if there are any C++ programmers here, and I am sure there are, I would appreciate it if you could set me off in the right direction.

Oh, by the way, I lost all the feeling in my fingertips due to carpal tunnel syndrome and it made it quite impossible for me to type. But now I'm back and as you can see I am typing very well, but that is because I am not typing. I have the software that I paid a lot of money for called Dragon naturally speaking. And I just sit here and talk and the Dragon translates my speech into printed text.

Tata for now, will wait for your response and talk to y'all later.

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do you want to see my calc code

Hello.

In a previous post I said I was working on a calculator program, and when I finished it I would share it with you all.
Well, I finished the first draft. If anybody would like to see it, I will share it here. It is fully functional.
You will need visual studio to look at it.

No flames, but constructive critisism is always welcome. Keepin mind, I am a noob at .net

Kasmar45

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introduction of kasmar45, me

Hello,

My name is George, but many call me kasmar45. I am 78 years old and long retired. I have worked in the IT business for 50 years. I started out wiring and operating tab equipment. IE (403, 407, 604, sorter, etc, etc. Then I got a job operating a 305 Ramac. That was fun. My next job I operated a 1401 computer. It had 4k of usable memory. How could you write a program with only 4k of memory you might ask. Well back in those days code was written in line, started at the top and finished at the bottom. Our devs programmed in assembler. When a program was started it read the first 4k into memory from the ram file, and when it came to the end of that it it read in the next 4k, etc, etc. Thats a simplfied explanation. I ended up my career doing app support at pick systems. I code today as a hobby.

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how to define a var = ???.text in vb.net

I want to make several of my textbox.text properties equal to variables. I tried:

 Dim outcome As New txtResult.Text
    outcome = "xxxxx"

this produced an error. :(

first, is this possible and if it is, what am I doing wrong???