A tiny bit of beginners help

[TheLea]

Hello there!

I'm new to programming in C# (And pretty much every other language) and have been fiddling around with a lot of basic stuff such as "Click this button and do this" and textbased games with leaderboards for a time.

Since I'm new I don't know every rule there is for where certain characters and commands go, and that causes some problems.

Recently I've been trying to make a small game with keyboard input.
Hence my plea for help:

I can't get the darn playingobject to move. It's the first step I've been trying to master, but all I get is torn pieces of hair.
I don't know how to make something on the screen to move by pressing a key.
f.e.x I can make a label increase it's width or height by clicking a button, but not move up or down with either button or keypressing.

I don't have any lines of code to show, I end up starting over and not saving the last project when I try again, it's not like it's a lot of code down the drain.

I do this in VS10 with the Windows form application preset.

Is there a kind soul out there who could point me (and the playingobject) in any direction?

PS: Treat me like a complete newbie, since that's what I am.

//Simon

[Vswe]

            // Left
            <name of object>.Left += <Move Length>;

            // Right
            <name of object>.Left -= <Move Length>;

            // Up
            <name of object>.Top -= <Move Length>;

            // Down
            <name of object>.Top += <Move Length>;

Replace <name of object> with the name of your object and <Move Length> with how far you want it to move

[TheLea]

Thankyou! That was invaluable to me!

There's only one problem left, I am completly lost when it comes to keyinput.

I've been searching for tutorials and looking at others problems, but so far I can't get the code to work at all, even though it's compilable.

f.e.x:

 private void keycontrol (Object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            switch (e.KeyCode)
            {
                case Keys.Left:
                    ovalShape1.Left += 100;
                    break;

                case Keys.Right:
                    ovalShape1.Left -= 100;
                    break;

                case Keys.Up:
                    ovalShape1.Top -= 100;
                    break;

                case Keys.Down:
                    ovalShape1.Top += 100;
                    break;
            }
        }

does nothing.

(That's code I took off a post somewhere else)

[cdg10620]

Check this out from MSDN. Maybe this will help you. How to: Modify Keyboard Input to a Standard Control