How to: Set the Text Displayed by a Windows Forms Control

Set the Text property to a string.

To create an underlined access key, includes an ampersand (&) before the letter that will be the access key.

Set the Font property to an object of type Font.

Button1.Text = "Click here to save changes"
Button1.Font = New Font("Arial", 10, FontStyle.Bold, GraphicsUnit.Point)

button1.Text = "Click here to save changes";
button1.Font = new Font("Arial", 10, FontStyle.Bold,
   GraphicsUnit.Point);

button1.set_Text("Click here to save changes");
button1.set_Font(new Font("Arial", 10, FontStyle.Bold,
   GraphicsUnit.Point));

button1->Text = "Click here to save changes";
button1->Font = new System::Drawing::Font("Arial",
   10, FontStyle::Bold, GraphicsUnit::Point);

Note
You can use an escape character to display a special character in user-interface elements that would normally interpret them differently, such as menu items. For example, the following line of code sets the menu item's text to read "& Now For Something Completely Different":

MPMenuItem.Text = "&& Now For Something Completely Different"

mpMenuItem.Text = "&& Now For Something Completely Different";

mpMenuItem.set_Text("&& Now For Something Completely Different");

mpMenuItem->Text = "&& Now For Something Completely Different";

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