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Using Assignment Operators

The assignment operator assigns a value to a variable. In Visual Basic .NET, as in most programming languages, the assignment operator is the equal sign. Here’s a very simple example that uses the assignment operator. It assigns the value 42 to the variable x.

x = 42

The left operand receives the value of the right operand, and must be a single variable name or property. The first statement shown here is valid because it assigns a value to a property. The second is unacceptable because the value on the left isn’t a single variable name or property.

lblTotal.Text = dblTotal
intEcks + 5 = intWye - 3

The right operand can be any literal, variable, expression, or function that returns a value, as in this example:

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