ASCII Conversion Tool Help VB.NET - vb.net

Question

I'm trying to make something along the lines of the Branah Unicode Converter to decode lines like this for instance: [99,97,108,108,32,99]. http://www.branah.com/unicode-converter. I found this. I'm guessing the form has a textbox and 2 buttons. One is using Asc to get the textbox's ASCII code and the other using Chr to convert the ASCII code in the textbox into a character.
So, last time I posted this, it got closed because it wasn't "a real question". Let me be blunt. I haven NO idea how to get this working. Labeling of things is very confusing. What do I declare Text1, Text2, Text3 and Label 6 as because it's giving me the error that they're not declared? I'm also getting an error that TextBox1 cannot be converted to an integer from this line: Text2 = Text2 + Chr(TextBox1). How do I fix that? Am I not importing something that I should be?
Private Sub EncodeButton_Click()
'Code the character
TextBox1 = Asc(Text1)
'clears text box
Text1 = ""
' adds the coded character to the textbox (Textbox1)
LABEL6 = LABEL6 + "," + TextBox1
' set focus to textbox
Text1.SetFocus
'decodes the coded character
Text2 = Text2 + Chr(TextBox1)
End Sub
Private Sub DecodeButton_Click()
'this part decodes the coded number
TextBox1 = Text3
Text3 = ""
LABEL6 = LABEL6 + "," + TextBox1
Text2 = Text2 + Chr(TextBox1)
Text3.SetFocus
End Sub

Answer 1

Here's how to make this code work in VB.NET:
Create a new Windows Forms project.
In the project there is a form, open it and create the following items:
Three TextBoxes, named Text1, Text2, Text3
Two Buttons, named EncodeButton and DecodeButton
A Label named Label6
Right click the form in solution explorer and select "View Code".
Paste the following code into the code window:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub EncodeButton_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles EncodeButton.Click
Dim sTextBox1 As String
sTextBox1 = Asc(Text1.Text)
Text1.Text = ""
Label6.Text = Label6.Text & "," & sTextBox1
Text1.Focus()
Text2.Text = Text2.Text + Chr(sTextBox1)
End Sub
Private Sub DecodeButton_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles DecodeButton.Click
Dim sTextBox1 As Integer
sTextBox1 = Val(Text3.Text)
Text3.Text = ""
Label6.Text = Label6.Text & "," & sTextBox1
Text2.Text = Text2.Text & Chr(sTextBox1)
Text3.Focus()
End Sub
End Class
Run the project.
Type a single letter into Text1 and click EncodeButton
Type a number into Text3 (try one of the numbers that appeared in Label6 first) and click DecodeButton
This should accomplish everything the sample you pasted was designed to accomplish. If you have difficulty with any of these steps, I suggest looking up a good Windows Forms tutorial online.

Answer 2

Part of your problem is probably that you need to understand that controls like TextBoxes have properties and methods.
So, to GET the value from a TextBox called Text1 and SET it to a TextBox called TextBox1 you'd do this:
TextBox1.Text = Asc(Text1.Text)
If you type in the name of a control and hit the fullstop (".") character afterwards, the intellisense will give you a very helpful list of propertyies and methods you can use.
If you've copied this code from somewhere else, you may also need to create a Form, and drag/drop some TextBox controls onto it and give then names to match your code.