I guess you can try with FindControl("") like this

public sub Form_Load() handles .....bla bla

myresultlabel.text = DirectCast(FindControl("mycontrolname"), Label).Text

end sub

kcrr you can access controls by name and you get intellisence and compiler
error checking.

label1.text = "this is label1"
label2.text = "this is label 2"
label3.text = "this is label 3"

Hans was right.  You could do the find control like hans said but its tricky
and it could cause problems cause no error checking or compiler errors.  I
would put the findcontrol in a function if I went with this.

private function worklabel(byval label as string) as label
return ctype(me.findcontrol(label),label)
end function

then you can code after function added.
worklabel("label1").text = "this is label1"
worklabel("label2").text = "this is label2"

Good Luck
DWS