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The document discusses different ways to display both text and a variable in a message box in Visual Basic .NET. It recommends using string interpolation or the string format method. String concatenation in VB.NET uses the ampersand "&" operator to combine a string and a variable into a single string to display in a message box.

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How To Get Text and A Variable in A Messagebox - Stack Overflow

The document discusses different ways to display both text and a variable in a message box in Visual Basic .NET. It recommends using string interpolation or the string format method. String concatenation in VB.NET uses the ampersand "&" operator to combine a string and a variable into a single string to display in a message box.

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How to get text and a variable in a messagebox


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I just need to know how to have plain text and a variable in a messagebox.

13 For example:

I can do this: MsgBox(variable)

And I can do this: MsgBox("Variable = ")


4
But I can't do this: MsgBox("Variable = " + variable)

vb.net messagebox

Share Follow asked Dec 25 '11 at 15:06


Mark Kramer
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string concatenation in vb.net uses the ampersand "&"


– Ric
Dec 25 '11 at 15:23

Give an example and put it in an answer and I will accept it


–  Mark Kramer
Dec 25 '11 at 15:32

5 Answers Active Oldest Votes

As has been suggested, using the string.format method is nice and simple and very readable.

21 In vb.net the " + " is used for addition and the " & " is used for string concatenation.

In your example:

MsgBox("Variable = " + variable)

becomes:

MsgBox("Variable = " & variable)

I may have been a bit quick answering this as it appears these operators can both be used for
concatenation, but recommended use is the "&", source http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/te2585xw(v=VS.100).aspx

maybe call

variable.ToString()

update:

Use string interpolation (vs2015 onwards I believe):

MsgBox($"Variable = {variable}")

Share Follow edited Nov 1 '17 at 16:35 answered Dec 25 '11 at 15:35
Ric
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2 Yep, (String1 + String2) and (String1 & String2) are both fine, but if want to concatenate a
String and an Integer, you need & . Just ran into this issue today.
– TylerH
Apr 25 '17 at 18:28

That'd be much more verbose than simply using & , wouldn't it?
– TylerH
Apr 25 '17 at 18:33

Only slightly. Very readable and you could also use string interpolation depending on which .net version
you use.
– Ric
Apr 25 '17 at 19:10

Why not use:

5 Dim msg as String = String.Format("Variable = {0}", variable)

More info on String.Format

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IAbstract
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I kind of run into the same issue. I wanted my message box to display the message and the
vendorcontractexpiration. This is what I did:
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Dim ab As String

Dim cd As String

ab = "THE CONTRACT FOR THIS VENDOR WILL EXPIRE ON "

cd = VendorContractExpiration

If InvoiceDate >= VendorContractExpiration - 120 And InvoiceDate <


VendorContractExpiration Then

MsgBox [ab] & [cd], vbCritical, "WARNING"

End If

Share Follow edited Jul 5 '16 at 22:29 answered Jul 5 '16 at 22:09
Alex K Julieta
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MsgBox("Variable {0} " , variable)

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Share Follow answered Dec 19 '17 at 13:12
Muhammad Saeed
79 2 9

I wanto to display the count of rows in the excel sheet after the filter option has been applied.

0 So I declared the count of last rows as a variable that can be added to the Msgbox

Sub lastrowcall()

Dim hm As Worksheet

Dim dm As Worksheet

Set dm = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("datecopy")

Set hm = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Home")

Dim lngStart As String, lngEnd As String

lngStart = hm.Range("E23").Value

lngEnd = hm.Range("E25").Value

Dim last_row As String

last_row = dm.Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row

MsgBox ("Number of test results between the selected dates " + lngStart + "

and " + lngEnd + " are " + last_row + ". Please Select Yes to continue

Analysis")

End Sub

Share Follow edited Nov 11 '20 at 18:00 answered Nov 10 '20 at 17:54
Cristiano Casciotti Gowtham
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