Question

I am new to VB. I am testing some old VB code. The code is as follows –

  Public GlobalCommArea() As Byte
  ...
  ...
  'GlobalCommArea is set to some value

Now, I want to see the contents of this GlobalCommArea variable. (By the way, is it a variable?)

So I tried

  outputBox.Text = GlobalCommArea

But the outputBox (which is a textbox) didn’t show anything. What should I do to print the contents of GlobalCommArea into the textbox?

Answer 1

The Byte data type is an array of bytes actually. You need to convert it to a string.
Use this to convert it:

outputBox.Text = StrConv(GlobalCommArea, vbUnicode)

Depending on what’s stored in GlobalCommArea you may have to change the vbUnicode parameter.

Hope this helps