Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

14.5. LinkLabel Control

The LinkLabel control displays links to other resources, such as files or Web pages (Fig. 14.12). A LinkLabel appears as underlined text (colored blue by default). When the mouse moves over the link, the pointer changes to a hand; this is similar to the behavior of a hyperlink in a Web page. The link can change color to indicate whether the link is new, previously visited or active. When clicked, the LinkLabel generates a LinkClicked event. Class LinkLabel is derived from class Label and therefore inherits all of class Label’s functionality. Figure 14.13 lists several LinkLabel properties and a common event.

Figure 14.12. LinkLabel control in running program.

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Figure 14.13. LinkLable prorperties ...