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The document discusses the MessageBox control in C# and Windows Forms. The MessageBox control displays a message with optional caption, icon, and buttons. It has an overloaded Show method to display messages. The document provides examples of creating message boxes with titles, buttons, icons, default buttons, message options, and help buttons. It explains the different enumerations used to customize message boxes.

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Dot Net (C#)

The document discusses the MessageBox control in C# and Windows Forms. The MessageBox control displays a message with optional caption, icon, and buttons. It has an overloaded Show method to display messages. The document provides examples of creating message boxes with titles, buttons, icons, default buttons, message options, and help buttons. It explains the different enumerations used to customize message boxes.

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MessageBox control displays a message with specified text. A message box may have some additional
options including a caption, icon, and help buttons. In this article, I will discuss how to use the
MessageBox class to display messages in Windows Forms and C#.

MessageBox class has an overloaded static Show method that is used to display a message. Here are
most of the forms of MessageBox.

Simple Message Box


The simplest form of a MessageBox is a dialog with a text and OK button. The following code snippet
creates a simple MessageBox.
string message = "Simple MessageBox";
MessageBox.Show(message);
 

MessageBox with Title


The following code snippet creates a simple MessageBox with a title.
string message = "Simple MessageBox";
string title = "Title";
MessageBox.Show(message, title);

MessageBox with Buttons


A MessageBox can have different kinds of button combination such as YesNo or OKCancel. The
MessageBoxButtons enumeration represents the buttons to be displayed on a MessageBox and has
following values.

 OK
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 OKCancel

 AbortRetryIgnore

 YesNoCancel

 YesNo

 RetryCancel

The following code snippet creates a MessageBox with a title and Yes and No buttons. This is a typical
MessageBox you may call when you want to close an application. If Yes button is clicked, the application
will be closed. The Show method returns a DialogResult enumeration.
string message = "Do you want to close this window?";
string title = "Close Window";
MessageBoxButtons buttons = MessageBoxButtons.YesNo;
 
DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show(message, title, buttons);
if (result == DialogResult.Yes)
{
    this.Close();
}
else
{
    // Do something
}

MessageBox with Icon


A MessageBox can display an icon on the dialog. A MessageBoxIcons enumeration represents an icon to
be displayed on a MessageBox and has following values.

 None
 Hand

 Question

 Exclamation
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 Asterisk

 Stop

 Error

 Warning

 Information

The following code snippet creates a MessageBox with a title, buttons, and an icon.
string message = "Do you want to abort this operation?";
string title = "Close Window";
MessageBoxButtons buttons = MessageBoxButtons.AbortRetryIgnore;
 
DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show(message, title, buttons, MessageBoxIcon.Warning);
if (result == DialogResult.Abort)
{
    this.Close();
}
else if (result == DialogResult.Retry)
{
    // Do nothing
}
else
{
    // Do something
}

MessageBox with Default Button


We can also set the default button on a MessageBox. By default, the first button is the default button.
The MessageBoxDefaultButton enumeration is used for this purpose and it has following three values.

 Button1
 Button2

 Button3
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The following code snippet creates a MessageBox with a title, buttons, and an icon and sets second
button as a default button.
string message = "Do you want to abort this operation?";
string title = "Close Window";
MessageBoxButtons buttons = MessageBoxButtons.AbortRetryIgnore;
 
DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show(message, title, buttons,
    MessageBoxIcon.Warning, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button2);
if (result == DialogResult.Abort)
{
    this.Close();
}
else if (result == DialogResult.Retry)
{
    // Do nothing
}
else
{
    // Do something
}

MessageBox with Message Options


MessageBoxOptions enumeration represents various options and has following values.

 ServiceNotification
 DefaultDesktopOnly

 RightAlign

 RtlReading

The following code snippet creates a MessageBox with various options.


DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show(message, title, buttons,
                MessageBoxIcon.Warning, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button2,
                MessageBoxOptions.RightAlign|MessageBoxOptions.RtlReading);
 
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MessageBox with Help Button


A MessageBox can have an extra button called Help button. This is useful when we need to display a
help file. The following code snippet creates a MessageBox with a Help button.
DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show(message, title, buttons,
                MessageBoxIcon.Warning, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button2,
                MessageBoxOptions.RightAlign, true );
 

We can also specify a help file when the Help button is clicked. The following code snippet references a
help file.
DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show(message, title,
                buttons, MessageBoxIcon.Question,
                MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1, 0, "helpfile.chm");

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