Pig Latin GUI

Prime b

Pig Latin is a nonsense language. To create a word in pig
Latin, you remove the fi rst letter and then add the fi rst letter
and "ay" at the end of the word. For example, "dog" becomes
"ogday" and "cat" becomes "atcay". Write a program that
allows the user to enter a word. Output the pig Latin version

That is what I have done so far

            string inputWord;
            string ay;
            inputWord = Convert.ToString(inPutTextBox.Text);
            inputWord.Substring(0, inputWord.Length - 1);
            label2 = " the word is in Pig laten is " + inputWord + ay;

But i get this error   Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'System.Windows.Forms.Label'

Could someone give me a hint or explanation please?
This is not an assignment I am just going over stuff that I learned last semester but apparently I forgot most of it.

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Lee Friend12y ago
Did you happen to try making the ay string character instead of a property?
string inputWord;
string ay;
inputWord = Convert.ToString(inPutTextBox.Text);
inputWord.Substring(0, inputWord.Length - 1);
label2 = " the word is in Pig laten is " + inputWord + "ay";

Try this.
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Prime b14y ago
Your method rocks! I like it more,so simple but so efficient
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Prime b14y ago
oh wow thank you!~~~~~ very helpful
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Vulpes14y ago
This is closer to your original code:

string inputWord;
string ay = "ay";
inputWord = inPutTextBox.Text; // already a string, no need to convert
inputWord = inputWord.Substring(1, inputWord.Length - 1) + inputWord.Substring(0, 1);
label2.Text = " the word in Pig Latin is " + inputWord + ay; // need to use Text property to display string
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Prime b14y ago
oh ok, but what if we did my way, how would that work?
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Vulpes14y ago
Wow, Pig Latin takes me back some years :)

This is how I'd probably do it:

string inputWord = inPutTextBox.Text.Trim();
char firstLetter = inputWord[0];
string pigLatin = inputWord.Substring(1) + firstLetter + "ay";
label2.Text = String.Format("The word '{0}' in Pig Latin is '{1}'", inputWord, pigLatin);
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