Easy question - for veterans :-)

[Jim]

I thought this would be a fairly basic...

How do you include an ampersand "&" in a form title, menu, or just a label
text?

Because "&" and "&&" are part of the language, I've tried "\&", "\u0026",
and just about everything else I can think of.

Ended up just using "and" but it was a thron, so I spent hours looking in
the .NET documentation and google searches trying to figure it out. I've
concluded it is either not possible or so simple everybody else already
knows how to do it.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Jim <PR***************@PRIVATEacoffice.comPRIVATE> wrote:

I thought this would be a fairly basic...

How do you include an ampersand "&" in a form title, menu, or just a label
text?

Because "&" and "&&" are part of the language, I've tried "\&", "\u0026",
and just about everything else I can think of.
They're part of the language when used outside a string, but "&" is
just a string literal.
Ended up just using "and" but it was a thron, so I spent hours looking in
the .NET documentation and google searches trying to figure it out. I've
concluded it is either not possible or so simple everybody else already
knows how to do it.

You can use normal C# keywords within string literals with no problem.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/s....html#literals for what
you *do* need to escape.

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[Bruno Jouhier]

button.Text = "Save && Exit";

You have to double the ampersand because ampersand is used (by Windows, not
by the language) to specify keyboard accelerators:

button.Text = "&Save"; // will underline the S and bind ALT-S to the button.

Bruno.

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I thought this would be a fairly basic...

How do you include an ampersand "&" in a form title, menu, or just a label
text?

Because "&" and "&&" are part of the language, I've tried "\&", "\u0026",
and just about everything else I can think of.

Ended up just using "and" but it was a thron, so I spent hours looking in
the .NET documentation and google searches trying to figure it out. I've
concluded it is either not possible or so simple everybody else already
knows how to do it.

[Richard Blewett [DevelopMentor]]

The problem is that in a label & denotes that the following letter which is the keyboard shortcut for the next control in the tab order (it puts an underscore against it). Use && e.g

Label l = new Label();
l.Text = "Hello && Goodbye";

Regards

Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor
http://www.dotnetconsult.co.uk/weblog
http://www.dotnetconsult.co.uk

Jim <PR***************@PRIVATEacoffice.comPRIVATE> wrote:

I thought this would be a fairly basic...

How do you include an ampersand "&" in a form title, menu, or just a label
text?

Because "&" and "&&" are part of the language, I've tried "\&", "\u0026",
and just about everything else I can think of.
They're part of the language when used outside a string, but "&" is
just a string literal.
Ended up just using "and" but it was a thron, so I spent hours looking in
the .NET documentation and google searches trying to figure it out. I've
concluded it is either not possible or so simple everybody else already
knows how to do it.

You can use normal C# keywords within string literals with no problem.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/s....html#literals for what
you *do* need to escape.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
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[Siva M]

Just escape it with another & character. For eg, 'Save && Exit' will show as
'Save & Exit'. However, this is not required for window captions.

"Jim" <PR***************@PRIVATEacoffice.comPRIVATE> wrote in message
news:eL**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
I thought this would be a fairly basic...

How do you include an ampersand "&" in a form title, menu, or just a label
text?

Because "&" and "&&" are part of the language, I've tried "\&", "\u0026",
and just about everything else I can think of.

Ended up just using "and" but it was a thron, so I spent hours looking in
the .NET documentation and google searches trying to figure it out. I've
concluded it is either not possible or so simple everybody else already
knows how to do it.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Richard Blewett [DevelopMentor] <ri******@NOSPAMdevelop.com> wrote:

The problem is that in a label & denotes that the following letter
which is the keyboard shortcut for the next control in the tab order
(it puts an underscore against it). Use && e.g

Label l = new Label();
l.Text = "Hello && Goodbye";

Right - I realised there might be something to do with that just after
sending the reply, but I had to go and preach somewhere, so never added
the extra bit :)

However, again it doesn't matter that && is an operator in C# itself -
as part of a string, it's fine.

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