Visual Basic: Can not access TextBox attribiutes - vb6

Sorry. i am officially new in Visual Basic.
I have created a TextBox in my form. In "View Code" i want to access the Text attribute
(I mean TextBox.Text)
,but the object only gives me these 4: Count,Item,LBound,UBound

Maybe you're changing the Index property instead of the TabIndex property so that it would become a control array thus UBound, LBound, Count and Item properties are present.
And i suspect you are using Visual Basic 6 instead of VB.Net.
See link here the VB6 has Index property that is for Control Array.

My guess, without seeing your code is that your syntax is somehow interacting with an array, try this code:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Me.TextBox1.Text = "Hello World"
End Sub
End Class
Note: The above code represents the default names for a Form, a new TextBox dragged and dropped onto the designer inside of the form's Load event handler.

Are you possibly copying and pasting a textbox rather than double clicking the object in the toolbox. If you look in the name of the object in the properties window you would see txtName(0)

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So I mostly use Microsoft Excel for a lot of my work and the most "Programming" I do is writing basic logical functions in excel.
I am setting up a windows form in Visual Studio 2013 and I want to the end user to be able to be able to confirm that the data they input into TEXTBOX1 matches what is in TEXTBOX2.
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Thanks for your help Mark - that makes a lot of sense.
I added this IF Statement to the PartCheck text box but it doesn't seem to display Yes or No regardless of what I put in.
It now throws two errors (look to be the same error on each line.)
Value of type 'String' cannot be converted to 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox'
Any further help you can provide would be fantastic
Screenshot of errors
I then changed PartCheck = "Yes" to PartCheck.Text = "Yes" and it runs but then nothing displays in the PartCheck Text Box
In WinForms, TextBox and other GUI components (e.g. Label, Button) are objects, with properties and methods to interact with them. If you want to compare the text that has been entered into two TextBox objects, you will need to compare their Text properties. e.g.
Update
Updated code below based on your updated question. You are correct that you need PartCheck.Text = "Yes" to set it correctly. Your current issue is when you are performing the check. You are handling the TextChanged event for your PartCheck TextBox, but your logic should really be triggered when either the CartonBarcode or LabelBarcode text is changed. You can either have TextChanged handlers for both of those TextBox controls, and call a common subroutine to perform the check, or have a common TextChanged handler, as shown below:
Private Sub Barcode_TextChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) _
Handles CartonBarcode.TextChanged, LabelBarcode.TextChanged
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Else
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