Message Boxes and Input Boxes

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 Message Boxes

• One way of C#.net application interact with

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The MessageBox.Show method

• In C#.Net you can use the .Net framework’s

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arguments Description
methods
Text Display text in the message box
Caption Display text in the title bar of the message box
Button Specifies a messageBox Button enumeration values that
determine which button to display in the message boc
Icon Specifies MessageBoxIcon enumeration values that determine
which icon to display in the message box
DefaultButton

etc etc

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 You can add a text to a C#.net
Message Box
• We can call MessageBox.Show with just one
argument
MessageBox.Show(“My First Message”);
Example1 :
Step1:Design and create the user interface

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Step2:write code
The application should respond to Show
Message Box click event by display a
message box with text My First Message

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 You can add a Title to a C#.net
Message Box
• Let's add a second argument to our Show
method call
MessageBox.Show(“My First
Message”,Message”);
Example 2 :
Step2:write code
The application should respond to Show Message
Box ( example1 )click event by display a
message box with text My First Message and
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 You can add a button like Yes, No and
Cancel to a C#.net Message Box
• Sometimes we want to ask a question. The question is answered with Yes or
No. We can provide the MessageBoxButtons. YesNo enum argument for this
• A MessageBox can have different button combinations such as YesNo and
OKCancel.
• The MessageBoxButtons enumeration represents the buttons to be displayed
on a MessageBox and has following values.
• OK
• OKCancel
• AbortRetryIgnore
• YesNoCancel
• YesNo
• RetryCancel

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MessageBox.Show(“My First
Message”,Message”,MessageBoxButton.Yes
No);
Example 3 :
Step2:write code
The application should respond to Show
Message Box ( example1 )click event by
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 Adding Icon to a C#.net Message Box

MessageBox.Show(“My First
Message”,Message”,MessageBoxButton.YesNo,Messa
geBoxIcon.Exclamation);
Example 4 :
Step2:write code
The application should respond to Show Message Box (
example1 )click event by display a message box with
text My First Message , title Message , yes No cancel
buttons and stop icon

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 Handling MessageBox events
• The show method returns a DialogResult
• DialogResult: We assign a variable to the
result of MessageBox.Show. We can later
test r1 to find out which button was clicked.

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DialogResult r=MessageBox.Show(“My First
Message”,Message”,MessageBoxButton.Ye
sNo,MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
Example 5: write a code that respond to
yesno click event by display a message box
you click yes for yes button and you click
no for no buttons

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If(r==DialogResult.Yes)
MessageBox.show(“you click yes”);
If(r==DialogResult.No)
MessageBox.show(“you click No”);

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Validation

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 Validation

• In the above example code will work fine with out

1. With textbox1
 User should be allowed to enter only digits
 Entering data into textbox1 is mandatory
2. Withtextbox2
 User should be allowed to enter only digits
 Entering data into textbox2 is mandatory
3. With button divide
 Textbox2 data should be zero
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 Char structure
• This structure provide various function that allows the programmer to
work with single character
• Functions in char structure
 Char.IsLetter(“charactr”)
 Char.IsDigit(“charactr”)
 Char.IsSymbol(“charactr”)
 Char.IsLetterOrDigit(“charactr”)
 Char.IsLower(“charactr”)
 Char.IsUpper(“charactr”)
 Char.ToLower(“charactr”)
 Char.IsUpper(“charactr”)

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Naming Controls
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 Naming Controls
Purpose
1. To understand real time naming conventions
2. To understand and implementation function or field level
validation
• In general in real time programming programmers is not
supposed to assign the name of the controls rather project
leaders /system analyst will design the form ,report and the
control to be present in those , what name to be given to the
control with in the design document
• Programmers should use the same name given in the design
document
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• Programmers should use the same name given in the design documents
• In general control name can be divided in to two parts
– Control identification
– Purpose of the control
Control identification
– TextBox ---> txt
– Button------btn/cmd
– Label------lbl
– ListBox--lst
– Combobox-cmb
– RadioButton-opt
– CheckBox---chk

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Purpose of the control
– For accepting ac no in bank application---Acno
– For accepting ac holder name in bank application---ACHName
Example of some sample control naming are like
– txtAcno
– txtACHName
– btnAccept
– btnSearch

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