MessageBox.Show Method (IWin32Window, String, String, MessageBoxButtons, MessageBoxIcon)

You can use the owner parameter to specify a particular object, which implements the IWin32Window interface, that will serve as the dialog box's top-level window and owner. A message box is a modal dialog box, which means no input (keyboard or mouse click) can occur except to objects on the modal form. The program must hide or close a modal form (typically in response to some user action) before input to another form can occur.

You can have a maximum of three buttons on the message box.

The following code example demonstrates how to display a MessageBox with the options supported by this overload of Show. After verifying that a string variable, ServerName, is empty, the example displays a MessageBox, offering the user the option to cancel the operation. If the Show method's return value evaluates to Yes, the form that displayed the MessageBox is closed.

	private void validateUserEntry4()
	{

		// Checks the value of the text. 

		if(serverName.Text.Length == 0)
		{

			// Initializes the variables to pass to the MessageBox.Show method. 

			string message = "You did not enter a server name. Cancel this operation?";
			string caption = "No Server Name Specified";
			MessageBoxButtons buttons = MessageBoxButtons.YesNo;
			DialogResult result;

			// Displays the MessageBox.

			result = MessageBox.Show(this, message, caption, buttons,
				MessageBoxIcon.Question);

			if(result == DialogResult.Yes)
			{

				// Closes the parent form. 

				this.Close();

			}

		}

	}

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

• UIPermission 

  for safe subwindows to call this method. Associated enumeration: UIPermissionWindow.SafeSubWindows

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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