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26 Mar 2019 by Steffen Ploetz
Check OpenGL as a basis for appealing applications, that are not necessarily games.
26 Dec 2011 by OriginalGriff
You can't.MB_ICONSTOP and MB_ICONHAND have the same value (hex 10) and will always display the same symbol.AFAIK, the old Hand icon for "Stop!" was removed quite a while ago in favour of the Red X and is no longer available.If you want to emulate it, you will have to create your own...
18 Jul 2016 by Andy Point
Android Alert Dialog Tutorial : Working with Time Picker, Date Picker and List Dialogs In this tutorial we will discuss how to use dialogs and alerts in Android Apps. A Dialog is a small popup shown to the user to get some additional information from the user or ask him to make some decision. Alert
31 May 2012 by Oleksandr Kulchytskyi
Hi, first of all this feature can be reachable in .NET with help of P\Invoke and WinApi.General worfkflow process can be divided on the 2 stages:1) Retrieving all pc's connected via lan to a single network.2) Sending to each pc appropriate message.First part of workflow can be feasible...
3 Nov 2011 by Chuck O'Toole
Perfectly understandable and doesn't require magic and/or threads.The OnTimer() function is an event called upon the receipt of the "WM_TIMER" windows message. This message is dispatched by the MFC provided "message pump". This single WM_TIMER message was removed from the message queue...
10 May 2012 by Wendelius
Looks a bit odd. The GetProcesses with a string parameter searches for processes on the machine passed as the parameter, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x8b2hzk8.aspx[^]. You could try Process.GetProcessesByName Method (String)[^] instead.
7 Dec 2016 by OriginalGriff
Do two things:1) Never concatenate strings to build a SQL command. It leaves you wide open to accidental or deliberate SQL Injection attack which can destroy your entire database. Use Parametrized queries instead.2) Use the debugger to follow exactly what is happening with your code. Put a...
29 Aug 2011 by Mike Hankey
Using the TaskDialog API as an attactive alternative to the standard windows MessageBox.
6 Oct 2011 by Abhijit Jana
I really didn't see any good reason for update panel to display a message box. Why you are not using JaVaScript / JQuery. JQuery Dialogs are the better options.
6 Oct 2011 by sajithnet
this is because ur script is not registered in script-manageru can use scriptmanager.Registerstartupscript(Page,Page.gettype(),"ghghhh","'alert('hai')'",true);
6 Oct 2011 by raj ch
if (System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("Do you want to Modify?", "Question", System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Yes){//place ur code here}
3 Nov 2011 by dlavrantonis
Hello to everyone.I'll try to be as simple as possible.I created an MFC dialog based application with am unsorted listbox (m_loglist)I added a timer in the CTimerTestingDlg class. The timer ticks every second.I also created an int counter with initial value set to 0.In the OnTimer...
26 Dec 2011 by CPallini
Here at CodeProject there are many articles about MessageBox, this one, namely "How to change the MessageBox window (Add controls and change texts)?"[^] looks promising.
26 Dec 2011 by Lactoferrin
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10 May 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
You can use the property System.Diagnostics.Process.HasExited. Pay attention for the exceptions this call can throw — it can help you to cover remaining situations, such as when the process has not been started,...
19 Nov 2012 by __TR__
Check this threadShow a message box from a class in c#?[^]
24 Nov 2013 by OriginalGriff
Have a llok here: http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/ASPNet-Server-Side-Yes-No-Confirmation-Box-using-JavaScript.aspx[^]
5 Apr 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
This is the perfectly expected result. I described the phenomenon you observed in detail in my article where I also created some interesting work-around solution: Enumeration Types do not Enumerate! Working around .NET and Language Limitations.—SA
1 Dec 2015 by George Jonsson
If you don't want a message to be shown for every iteration, just move the lineMessageBox.Show("Success");outside the foreach loop.Put a boolean inside the loop that you set to true if the transaction is successful and then outside the loop you add an if-statement.if (succcess) ...
18 Dec 2016 by Mehedi Shams
Hi Member 9983063,This is not a problem at all. Just use ToString() in the message box as message box requires a string in it.MessageBox.Show(a3.ToString());
26 Mar 2017 by OriginalGriff
The Text property of a TextBox will never be null - it can be the empty string, but it's never null.So this test: if (txt_P2In.Text == null || txt_Vol1In.Text == null || txt_Vol2In.Text == null || txt_U1In.Text == null || txt_U2In.Text == null || txt_vel1In.Text == null || txt_vel2In.Text ==...
2 Mar 2018 by OriginalGriff
You can't read "a specific item" from a text file, because it doesn't have any implicit order - in fact even lines are just an interpretation of characters within the file: each time a newline character (or character pair, depending on the operating system) is encountered, that is the end of the...
19 Jul 2019 by andrew898701
Hello, I am writing code to correct the error in a digital scanner that sometimes reads 2 as ">". If the scanner includes this wrong character then the code below will execute: if ((string)row.Cells[1].Value != txtScannedIn.Text.Trim()) { string...
19 Jul 2019 by phil.o
Put a breakpoint on the line editedtext = ScanFix(txtScannedIn.Text, (string)row.Cells[1].Value); then press F5 and wait for the breakpoint to be reached. Once in debug session, start debugging line by line to figure out why the editedtext variable does not get the value you thought it would. ...
28 Aug 2019 by OriginalGriff
I'm not going anywhere near that code. Try without Catch , GoTo instead of loops, two different ways to annoy the user by stopping your app running: Sleep and Nap, assumptions that "something will be finished if I just wait around long enough", ... That doesn't seem to have been thought about,...
7 Sep 2022 by OriginalGriff
Try changing this: if (MessageBoxDisplayed) To this: if (!MessageBoxDisplayed)
19 Sep 2011 by Vijay Pate
I am working on Project with AfxMessaeBox and MB_OKCANCEL and I need to utilize OK to move to next page and CANCEL to terminate the Application any idea?Code I wrote so far to accomplish is as follow:COleDateTime timeStart;COleDateTimeSpan timePassed; int daysLeft = 0;timeStart =...
20 Sep 2011 by André Kraak
The AfxMessageBox[^] return value can be used to determine which button was pressed by the user. When using the style MB_OKCANCEL the function returns IDOK when the OK button is pressed and IDCANCEL when the cancel button is used.if( AfxMessageBox( strMessage, MB_OKCANCEL) == IDCANCEL...
6 Oct 2011 by Member 3553939
I have added a button inside update panel and try to display a Message box. It did not work. What is the reason for it? Any help on how to resolve this?
31 Oct 2011 by dlavrantonis
Hello to everyone,This thing is driving me crazy for the past days, so i would appreciate any insight.Im writing an MFC dialogue application in VS2008.In simple words im doing the following.I have a function that is a member of the *dlg class (lets call it...
31 Oct 2011 by Nish Nishant
It seems likely that the message box calls are from new threads. This leaves your main thread responsive and thus able to process new messages. In such a scenario it's best to avoid using a message box, and a better idea may be to use a modeless dialog with a listbox that shows a running log of...
31 Oct 2011 by rj45
if your using SEH structured exception handling, it may have broken off to the message loop ( yes it can do that). That will only happen on windows mobile/ce to my knowledge but never tested it. Turn off SEH on the compiler and try it again.Use spy++ to watch the messages.Write your...
3 Nov 2011 by Shmuel Zang
It looks like the timer launches a different thread, for each call of the OnTimer function.
2 Apr 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
The error message clearly shows the problem: it expects the string, not integer. And it should be System::String, not char*. The solution of the problem is: use MessageBox::Show(len.ToString()); however, it's generally bad to mix native C++ code with .NET C++/CLI without special need for...
10 May 2012 by MR. AngelMendez
Hi, I want to make a simple program that checks for a process and if it is running a messagebox will appear. Here is what I got so far but it doesn't show the messagebox.private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { foreach(Process pro in...
31 May 2012 by gaurish thakkar
How do i display a custom message on all the pc`s connected via lan to a single network.
21 Sep 2012 by Sandeep Mewara
Here, following article should help you out, refer:ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit ModalPopupExtender Control in Action[^]Modal Popup Extender Basics[^]Building Modal Popup using ASP.Net AJAX ModalPopupExtender Control[^]
19 Nov 2012 by kk2014
hi all,how to display pop up a simple message box in class(.cs) file. no model pop up only simple message box.no jquery pop up.thanks,krunal
18 Dec 2012 by Am Gayathri
In my Asp.net website i want to display one message box. I tried System.Windows.Forms;but am getting error message as;Error 2 The type or namespace name 'Windows' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
17 Dec 2012 by Nitin Giri
There is no direct suport for message box in asp.net. One alternative is you can use javascript to display an alert.
17 Dec 2012 by Abhishek Pant
Here is asp.net we do not have direct message box like windows forms but have confirmatation box or alerts message or popups using javascripts Simple MessageBox functionality in ASP.NET[^]ASP.NET MessageBox[^]ASP.Net Message Box Alert Display[^]here is simple example using...
26 Feb 2013 by user_code
Hello,I have a C# user control.In this control, I have a GroupBox that includes radio buttons and textboxes.When the user switches between the radio buttons, a message box is raised to ask the user if he is sure in his selection.The top of the messagebox is covering the last radio...
27 Feb 2013 by Jegan Thiyagesan
Hi,Call the "Refresh();" method after the message box closed.RegardsJegan
20 May 2013 by akosisugar
sir! please help. this is my output:http://tinyurl.com/mvnfvlh[^]an error provider shows up when user missed to enter a value to some fields so the system will not allow the user to save record to the database. user must fill all fields. assuming that the messagebox is my save code, after...
21 Jun 2013 by ymani
Hello, i had created an activex dll in vb.net and im using this in my web application. using that activex im downloading the document from the server , processing it in the local machine and saving back to the server during closing the word document. whenever the user close the...
29 Jul 2013 by ragha2012
Hi please anybody knows reason for this just update here,I've a TextBox control with PreviewLostKeyboardFocus.Inside PreviewLostKeyboardFocus I'm calling a method to throw a custom MessageBox(System.Windows.Forms,MessageBox.Show())So, when the message get called the...
23 Sep 2013 by tanweer
Hi,I just modified your codefor (int i = 0; i
24 Nov 2013 by krish.krish
This is my 3-Tier projectI am having error in DLL ->empBL. Public Function insertbyid(ByVal id As String) As Boolean Dim con As New SqlConnection() Dim cmd As New SqlCommand() Try Try con.ConnectionString = DBConnectionString ...
24 Nov 2013 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)
ProblemMessageBox comes under System.Windows.Forms Namespace.So, you can use this in Form's code behind (.cs) page only.But here you are trying to access it inside one class. It is not possible.SolutionIdeally, you should return Boolean value from this function and on the...
3 Mar 2014 by Member 10603307
I've got three checkboxes and I need validation so that you can only text one of them. I've got the code so you can only select one of the text boxes (that code looks like this)private void toc_Blockleave_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { if...
5 Apr 2014 by Thomas Daniels
You should try it the other way around: now you do English word = Dutch word, but you should do Dutch word = English word:enum Seizoen { spring, summer, autumn, winter, lente = spring, zomer = summer, herfst = autumn };First, add the English words to the enum and then add the Dutch words to it.
18 Sep 2014 by Member 11092873
I have what appears to be an obscure bug in MessageBox.Show. I'm using Mono version 3.2.8, under Kubuntu Linux.The following C# "program" demonstrates my attempt to display "Create SpanishDictionary", which only succeeded in displaying "Create Spanish". The word "Dictionary" was...
18 Sep 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Please see the comments to the question, by BillWoodruff and mine.Here is my advice: as Mono apparently have defects related to the issue (try to use the latest version though), you can create your own analog of MessageBox, based on the class System.Windows.Forms.Form. This is not too easy...
2 Feb 2015 by Stan Huang
I created a timer using VC# which working seems fine. The problem is that I must show message at the time when timer event handler is called. I found the MessageBox.Show not working. Below is my modified code snippet, in which I simplified the event handler as just showing a message.My window...
2 Feb 2015 by _Asif_
Check below link, this will not only give you detail info about problem but also suggest solutions as well (The link though discuss console application but you may do the same in your application as well)Message box in front of all windows in console application?[^]
4 Feb 2015 by Stan Huang
Refer here:TopMost MessageBox[^]It works; but I still wonder the simpler solotion. In my opinion, showing message at top of all windows or at least the current window must be very popular option in Windows programming. How come it needs so lots of codes to do it? It should need only one...
27 Mar 2015 by VolcOne
There was a following situation with an event handlerprivate void Bt_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e){ if (MessageBox.Show("Yes or No", "?", MessageBoxButton.OKCancel) != MessageBoxResult.OK) { return; } HyperlinkButton hb = new HyperlinkButton() ...
27 Apr 2015 by Krishna Chaitanya Bezawada
Hi,I am having a c# Application Which will return a Message Box when a User wants to find Location Coordinates. So at present it is displaying the default Message Box.Now i need a Message Box which should have its entire background color as RED and the Red color should be flashing for...
27 Apr 2015 by Abhinav S
You can write a custom messagebox -A Custom Message Box[^]Custom Message Box in VC#[^]Customized Dialog[^]
20 Aug 2015 by nitinkumar06
how can i show messagebox from code behind in aspx page (c#) when else condition become true this else conditon code block is unser combobox selected index changed event .please reply soon .Thank You.
1 Dec 2015 by Rencyrence
Hi, im working on a datagridview and update rows using checkbox, and program works, but i have problems in Messagebox showing multiple Message "Success"Here's my code Displaying on datagridviewMySqlDataAdapter sda = new MySqlDataAdapter("Select * from Foreclosed", con); DataTable dt...
13 Oct 2016 by JC Carmo
I am trying to display the text of a textBox inside a MessageBox. There are no error messages at all. The contents of the TextBox simply don't appear in the MessageBox (first MessageBox in the code). Can you please take a look at it and tell me what's wrong? I really appreciate it. Thank...
13 Oct 2016 by JC Carmo
I found what the problems is: the reason why the contents of the TextBox are not displayed in the MessageBox is because when I click on the BindingNavigatorDeleteItem, it deletes the record without confirmation, thus the MessageBox can't display the TextBox.Text because it has been deleted. ...
13 Oct 2016 by JC Carmo
SUCCESS!!! All I needed to do was set the DeleteItem property of the binding navigator no NONE so I could handle the event manually.
7 Dec 2016 by Mehedi Shams
Hi Member 9983063, the following line is not checking for an empty table.if (dsa != null)And it is never NULL as an object is assigned to it; a memory is allocated.DataSet dsa = new DataSet();So the conditional check is actually not checking for what you need.What will be best is...
18 Dec 2016 by Member 9983063
Hello Guys,I am getting 2 errors when i subtract 2 textbox values and shows result in message box so i get this 2 errorsError 1175 The best overloaded method match for 'System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(string)' has some invalid arguments 20208 25 NewPOSError 1176 Argument 1: cannot...
5 Mar 2017 by Member 9983063
Hello friend,i am facing an issue that I want to show double values and I want to show that values in text box or message box I have sum values but I don't know how to show in message box when I use this query message box.show(sum1.tostring());so it returns null values please guide me how can i ...
5 Mar 2017 by Peter Leow
Shouldn't it be sum1 += Double.Parse(dataGridView2.Rows[i].Cells[1].Value);In fact, you should use Double.TryParse Method (String, Double) (System)[^]
5 Mar 2017 by Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
It seems you are using SQL... so use SQL's power and sum the value at the SQL level...SUM (Transact-SQL)[^]SELECT SUM(double_colum) FROM table1But if you insist to do it in code, do it right...Double sum1 = 0;for (int i = 0; i
5 Mar 2017 by Graeme_Grant
IF you want the simple format as an alternative to the above answers:sum1 = sum1 + Double.Parse(dataGridView2.Rows[i].Cells[1].Value);which is exactly the same assum1 += Double.Parse(dataGridView2.Rows[i].Cells[1].Value);
5 Mar 2017 by Patrice T
When you don't understand what your code is doing or why it does what it does, the answer is debugger.Use the debugger to see what your code is doing. Just set a breakpoint and see your code performing, the debugger allow you to execute lines 1 by 1 and to inspect variables as it execute, it...
3 Aug 2017 by Member 12895537
Hello. I have a question regarding my codes. My question is "i want to put alert message if that person exceed words limitation". my code is function well and when exceed that person cannot type, however which part on javascript I want to put popup the alert message if he/she exceed? What I...
3 Aug 2017 by Thomas Daniels
Right now, your this.value.length > 400 comparison checks the number of characters, and not words (such a check probably makes sense too -- but then the number would be bigger and that's not related to the number of word check). So you have to split up the string in words and compare the length...
2 Mar 2018 by faiqaa
I am trying to display a message box based on the quantity regarding certain products saved in rows of data (4th item) in a text file, I know how to read each row but not how to only read a specific item.Does anyone have any idea? Let me know,thanks in advance. Below you can see what code...
18 Sep 2018 by JimB_
public void SaveToFile() { SaveFileDialog saveToFileDialog = new SaveFileDialog() { Filter = "Comma Separated Values (*.csv)|*.csv| Text File (*.txt)|*.txt ", FilterIndex = 0, RestoreDirectory = true }; if (saveToFileDialog.ShowDialog() ==...
30 Nov 2018 by TheBigBearNow
Hello all, I have a question with C# WPF I have a window that passes a User object into the next window and in the constructor I am setting a default combobox value to what the users property is. In the combobox_Selection() I have it so when this specific property is selected a...
30 Nov 2018 by Graeme_Grant
The code is doing exactly what you have asked it to do. When the selection changes, default is no selection, the SelectionChanged is fired from the ctor method. IF you set a breakpoint on the line CboCustomer.SelectedIndex = 2; then step through the execution line by line, you will see this...
28 Aug 2019 by LeMS_Studios
I have been working on a game in my free time for a while now. The game is a continuum of Histacom. Below is the code I am using to start a program in the game. The process is started with the exepath and arguments passed. The thread pauses for a half second to allow the new process to start....
5 Oct 2021 by candijen
In my web form want to check textBox1 input text for the URL and I want to show a message 403 Forbidden but I am unsure about what the user needs to type in and what I need to check for in order to display such a message to the user. What...
1 Jan 2022 by User 13045643
Hi, I'm making a program where I need a messagebox, later found out that this one, blocking me from clicking on the form that was called by (modal type). Now I like to make the form where msg appears an owner of it so the messagebox window can...
1 Jan 2022 by OriginalGriff
MessageBox is always application model: once you show it, it "takes control" and nothing more happens with the "parent form" until it is closed. To change this behaviour, you need to create your own (Form based) message box, and use the...
1 Jan 2022 by User 13045643
Hi all, I make a modalness custom messagebox, that let me click on the calling form. Now on this custom, I have created, two buttons and a dialog result, I also created a public class and Inherits the form where these buttons are. In another form...
1 Jan 2022 by OriginalGriff
As I said when you asked your first question on this subject, calling Show returns immediately - that's the whole point. What you need to do is either raise an event when the button is clicked in the new form (and handle it in the "parent") or...
29 Mar 2022 by Member 14868340
I don't know why the program doesn't work as it should. I have two edit elements on the form: edit1 and edit2. I want to mark the always active component in yellow. Edit1 is active after the program has started. I click edit2 and I want edit1 in...
17 Jul 2022 by TheRealSteveJudge
The problem is: WPF MessageBox is a sealed class. You cannot derive your own MessageBox class from it. So your idea is not realisable. But someone developed a clone of the native MessageBox GitHub - evanwon/WPFCustomMessageBox: A WPF clone of the...
17 Jul 2022 by OriginalGriff
Repost: Deleted. Please do not repost your question; use the Improve question widget to add information or reformat it, but posting it repeatedly just duplicates work, wastes time, and annoys people.
19 Dec 2014 by JReichert
Use FlexibleMessageBox.Show to seamlessly replace your usages of MessageBox.Show and get more features in a single class you can easily add to your project
6 Apr 2013 by Thomas Daniels
A tip about how to set the position of a Windows Forms MessageBox in C#
10 Oct 2016 by Vincent Maverick Durano
In this post, you will learn about the Customized MessageBox, ConfirmBox and FrameBox Controls for ASP.NET WebForms and how to use them in your application.
4 Aug 2018 by boschi84
A quite simple notifier (a MessageBox substitute) to get a better message representation of messages in an executable. The idea is to get a solution similar to the "Toast", from Android, where the notifications are not invasive.It works for Windows Form and WPF.
3 Mar 2014 by Joezer BH
Avoiding a cumbersome message box or input box that locks the application in WPF.
20 May 2013 by Pheonyx
Firstly, this is not the best approach to screen validation. You should take advantage of controls "Validating" and "Validated" methods. But based on what you have done, I would do something as follows:Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)...
24 Nov 2013 by aditya kiran maroju
Hi,I have a scenario Where after clicking the button i need to retrieve the data from the database and based on the value i need to alert an confirmation message box. If yes is clicked in the confirmation message box then need to execute the remaining set of code else exit from the Button...
26 Nov 2013 by Karthik_Mahalingam
hi Try this code...if any doubt , leave a comment..protected void btnsubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { // do some code and get the value bool value = true; if (value) { string script = "
3 Mar 2014 by phil.o
I would use just one event handler for all three checkboxes (btw, you know radio buttons would fit better here, don't you?) and validate using XOR function.This way:private void CheckBox_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { CheckBox box = (CheckBox)sender; if (box !=...
5 Apr 2014 by Alex Houben
Hi,I use the following code:namespace wpfEmun{ enum Seizoen { lente , zomer, herfst, winter, autumn = herfst, spring = lente, summer = zomer }; public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } ...
21 May 2016 by Member 12537558
I've recently created a "hello world" c++ program:#include int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nShowCmd){ MessageBoxA(NULL, "Hello World!", "", MB_OK); return 0;}What I need to do now is create a dll that...
5 Mar 2017 by Karthik_Mahalingam
This will take care of empty/null values in the cellsDouble sum = 0; for (int i = 0; i
18 Dec 2012 by Am Gayathri
This is possible in web forms try this below code, Message.show("");but first add using System.Windows.Forms;it will work.