How do I display this structured info in a rich textbox in VB.NET

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Error BC30311 : says that, value of type string can't be converted to 'RichTextBox'
Here is the link to the image of my code since you cant post pictures here

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I have tried introducing parameters but that keeps worsening the situation

Posted 27-Mar-24 1:04am

joseph mahihu

Updated 27-Mar-24 1:57am

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Richard MacCutchan 27-Mar-24 7:12am

No one can guess what your code is doing. Please provide proper details of the code and the data you are trying to process. And trying simple to 'convert' a string into a RichTextBox makes no sense. You need to populate the text box with data.

joseph mahihu 27-Mar-24 7:26am

I wish there was a way I can show you a picture of this

Richard MacCutchan 27-Mar-24 7:28am

All you need to do is just edit your question and show us the code that is not working.

Dave Kreskowiak 27-Mar-24 12:29pm

Copy and paste the relevant code into your question, NOT AN IMAGE OF IT.

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Pete O'Hanlon · Answer 1 · 2024-03-27T01:25:00

If you are trying to add structured text into RichTextBox, you are going to be using the Rtf property which accepts a string that has text formatting in it. As you haven't actually shown any code, we can't offer much more support other than saying that you are going to have to deal with the RTF yourself. So, if I wanted to have the following string:

This is extremely bold text with some italics in it and a strikethrough

this is going to end up looking like this as the RTF string.

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\nouicompat\deflang2057{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Calibri;}}
{\*\generator Riched20 10.0.22621}\viewkind4\uc1 
\pard\sa200\sl276\slmult1\f0\fs22\lang9 This is extremely \b bold\b0  text with some \i italics\i0  in it and a \strike strikethrough\strike0 .\par
}