Trouble accessing updated label contents

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I have a label that gets populated with a value from a database. If the user enters this value into a textbox below, I want to change the background. The label displays the value fine on screen, but when I try to match the values in the textbox's textchanged event, it shows as null.

    public void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {          
        txtAnswer.Clear();
        txtAnswer.Background = Brushes.White;
        int number = r.Next(3) + 1;

        string queryEnglish = "SELECT englishVerb FROM verbTable WHERE (verbID = " + number + ")";
        string queryFrench = "SELECT frenchVerb FROM verbTable WHERE (verbID = " + number + ")";


        using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data Source=.\\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\\verbs.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"))
        {
            con.Open();

            using (SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(queryEnglish, con))
            {
                this.lblEnglishVerb.Content = (string)command.ExecuteScalar();
            }

            using (SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(queryFrench, con))
            {
                this.lblFrenchVerb.Content = (string)command.ExecuteScalar();
            }
        }            
    }


    public void txtAnswer_TextChanged(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (txtAnswer.Text == lblFrenchVerb.Content.ToString())
            txtAnswer.Background = Brushes.LightGreen;

开发者_JS百科        if (txtAnswer.Text == "test")          
            txtAnswer.Background = Brushes.AliceBlue;
    }

Textchanged will probably get triggered the moment 'nothing' is placed into the Content. So on the first txtAnswer_TextChanged you might get nothing.