Help with VB Express Edition

are your command buttons in an control array? if they are, just create a loop to grab the index and use it in a Select to tell it what letter you want to add to the text box.

if the buttons are not part of an array, you'll need to do something like this for each one of them:

Private Sub Command1_Click(Index As Integer)
Text1.Text = Text1.Text & "A"
End Sub

That will add "A" to whatever is already in the textbox everytime the button with the name "Command1" is clicked.

doofusboy: Your answer is correct for VB6 and prior versions. Unfortunately, Mona posted his/her message to the wrong forum; as the subject states, s/he is using VB Express Edition, which is based on .NET and does not support control arrays.

Mona, assuming that your textbox is named txtBox and your buttons are named btnA, btnB, etc. and their text properties are set to "A", "B", "C", etc. you can do this:

Private Sub Button_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnA.Click, btnB.Click, btnC.Click ' , etc.

' Convert sender parameter (the control that
' triggered the event) to Button
Dim btn As Button = DirectCast(sender, Button)
' Add button text to end of textbox
txtBox.AppendText(btn.Text)

End Sub

have done very little so far in .Net

could you elaborate on:
based on .NET and does not support control arrays.

how are control arrays addressed in .Net?