Must declare the scalar variable "#User_Name" - asp.net

Referring to my last question: "The connection was not closed. The connection's current state is open". I am trying to do a registration form using vb.net with ASP.NET. After having solve an issue concerning 'close connection'. I am having problem to insert data to my database. When I try to validate the data it gives me an error message:
Must declare the scalar variable "#User_Name"
Can someone help me to debug this? Thanks
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Configuration
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Partial Class Register2
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
'declaring connection string and command
'here we are extracting connection string from web.config file
Private con As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("MauriAuctions").ToString())
Private cmd As New SqlCommand()
Protected Sub btnSubmit_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSubmit.Click
Try
cmd.Connection = con
'assigning connection to command
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text
'representing type of command
'cmd.CommandText = "INSERT INTO UserDetails (User_Name,Fname,Lname,Email,Password,Gender,Dob,Mobile,Address) values
' (#User_Name,#Fname,#Lname,#Email,#Password,#Gender,#Dob,#Mobile,#Address)";
cmd.CommandText = "INSERT INTO tbl_user (User_Name, Fname, Lname, Email, Pwd, Street, Town, City, Tel) values(#User_Name,#Fname,#Lname,#Email,#Pwd,#Street,#Town,#City,#Tel)"
'adding parameters with value
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#User_Name", txtUser_Name.Text.ToString())
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#Fname", txtFirstName.Text.ToString())
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#Lname", txtLastName.Text.ToString())
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#Email", txtEmail.Text.ToString())
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#Pwd", txtPassword.Text.ToString())
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#Street", txtStreet.Text.ToString())
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#Town", txtTown.Text.ToString())
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#City", txtCity.Text.ToString())
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#Tel", txtTel.Text.ToString())
cmd.Parameters.Clear()
con.Open()
'opening connection
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
'executing query
con.Close()
'closing connection
lblMsg.Text = "Registered Successfully.."
Catch ex As Exception
lblMsg.Text = ex.Message.ToString()
Finally
con.Close()
'closing connection
End Try
End Sub
Protected Sub btnClear_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnClear.Click
'refreshing/reloading page to clear all the controls
Page.Response.Redirect(Page.Request.Url.ToString(), True)
End Sub
End Class

You're clearing parameters after adding them. Try putting cmd.Parameters.Clear() before first .AddWithValue, not after the last one.

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This line seems to be totally wrong
Integer.TryParse(lblID.Text, InstructorID)
This lines takes the current value in the lblID.Text at the Page_Load event and tries to set the value of InstructorID. But your code seems to want this value from the QueryString passed that contains the real value.
If you are certain the the QueryString contains a valid integer then remove that line and add
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You should always consider how the ASP.NET model works.
In ASP.NET, when you click a button that executes a server side code (the event) you get always a call to the Page.Load event before the call to your event handler code.
In your Page.Load you execute again the code to load the TextBox from the database, but this code destroys the content of the textbox that has been typed by you. The textbox is set to the original value extracted by the database, so, when the code in the button event handler is executed it writes the same value to the database.
To resolve this situation you need to add this to the Page_Load event
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if Not IsPostBack Then
Dim connectionString As String = "......"
Dim queryString As String = "SELECT * from TEST "
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Dim command As New SqlCommand(queryString, connection)
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Said that, please take notice, your code in the button click event is very dangerous because you concatenate whatever is typed by the user to a string that is then passed as a sql command to the database. This is the pattern used by the Sql Injection attacks that could destroy your database or stole valuable information from you tables

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I figured it out; I should have been using configurationmanager.connectionstrings["the name goes here"]. to access my connection string.

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I can suggest some improvements to your search code. Hopefully you'll at least get a better error message out of this:
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Looks like you are missing a New
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Should be...
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