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    Introduction

    A message box is a special dialog box used to display a piece of information to the user. As opposed to a
    regular form, the user cannot type anything in the dialog box. To support message boxes, the Visual Basic
    language provides a function named MsgBox. To support message boxes, the .NET Framework provides a
    class named.

    To display a simple message box, you can use the MsgBox() function with the following formula:

    MsgBox(Message)

    Inside the parentheses, pass a string. Here is an example:


    Private Sub btnMessage_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
    Handles btnMessage.Click
    MsgBox("Welcome to Microsoft Visual Basic")
    End Sub

    If the message is made of different sections, you can concatenate them using the & operator. You can also first declare a Str
    variable, initialize it, and pass it to the function.

    To create a message box using the .NET Framework, you can call the Show() method of the MessageBox class using the
    following formula:

    MessageBox.Show(Message)

    As done for the MsgBox() function, pass a string to the method. Here is an example:

    Private Sub btnMessage_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _


    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
    Handles btnMessage.Click
    MessageBox.Show("Welcome to Microsoft Visual Basic")
    End Sub

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    In our lessons, we will mostly use the MsgBox() function, not because it is better than the MessageBox class. It is simply a
    preference; but it is also because these lessons are for Microsoft Visual Basic, so we give preference to its own (rich) library

    The Return Value of a Message Box

    Besides displaying a message, a message box can be used to let the user make a decision by clicking a button and, dependin
    the button the user would have clicked, the message box would return a value. To be able to return a value, the MsgBox()
    function is declared as follows:

    Public Shared Function MsgBox ( _


    Prompt As Object, _
    <OptionalAttribute> Optional Buttons As MsgBoxStyle = MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly, _
    <OptionalAttribute> Optional Title As Object = Nothing _
    ) As MsgBoxResult
    The value returned by a message box corresponds to a button the user would have clicked (on the message box). The return
    of the MsgBox() function is based on the MsgBoxResult enumeration. The buttons and the returned values are as follows:

    If the User Clicks Button Caption Integral Value


    OK 1
    Cancel 2
    Abort 3
    Retry 4
    Ignore 5
    Yes 6
    No 7
    The Buttons of a Message Box

    If you create a simple message box by providing only the message, it would appear with only one button labeled OK. If you
    the user to be able to make a decision and communicate it to you, provide a second argument. The second argument must be
    based on the MsgBoxStyle enumeration. When it comes to buttons, some members of this enumeration are:

    Integral
    To Display MsgBoxStyle
    Value
    OKOnly 0
    OKCancel 1

    AbortRetryIgnore 2

    YesNoCancel 3

    YesNo 4

    RetryCancel 5

    To use any of these combinations of buttons, call the MessageBoxStyle enumeration and access the desired combination. H
    an example:

    Private Sub btnMessage_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _


    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
    Handles btnMessage.Click
    MsgBox("Now we will move to the next step", MsgBoxStyle.OkCancel)
    End Sub

    This would produce:


    The Caption of a Message Box

    If you create a simple message box by providing only the message, the dialog box would appear with the name of the projec
    the title. To allow you to specify a caption of your choice, provide a second string as the third argument to
    the MsgBox() function. Here is an example:

    Private Sub btnMessage_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _


    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
    Handles btnMessage.Click
    MsgBox("Now we will move to the next step", _
    MsgBoxStyle.OkCancel, "Lessons Objectives")
    End Sub

    This would produce:

    The Icon of a Message Box

    To enhance the appearance of a message box, you can display an icon on it. To support icons, the MsgBoxStyle enumeratio
    provides the following additional members:

    Integral
    To Display MsgBoxStyle
    Value
    Critical 16

    Question 32

    Exclamation 48

    Information 64

    To apply one of these buttons, combine its style with that of the button, using the OR operator. Here is an example:

    Private Sub btnMessage_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _


    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
    Handles btnMessage.Click
    MsgBox("Are you ready to provide your credit card information?", _
    MsgBoxStyle.YesNoCancel Or MsgBoxStyle.Question, _
    "Customer Order Processing")
    End Sub

    This would produce:

    The Default Button of a Message Box


    When a message box is configured to display more than one button, the operating system is set to decide which button is the
    default. The default button has a thick border that sets it apart from the other button(s). If the user presses Enter, the message
    would behave as if the user had clicked the default button. If the message box has more than one button, you can decide wha
    button would be the default. To support the default button, the MsgBoxStyle enumeration provides the following additional
    options:

    If the message box contains


    Integral
    MsgBoxStyle more than one button, the
    Value
    default button would be
    DefaultButton1 0 the first
    DefaultButton2 256 the second
    DefaultButton3 512 the third

    Here is an example:

    Private Sub btnMessage_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _


    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
    Handles btnMessage.Click
    MsgBox("Are you ready to provide your credit card information?", _
    MsgBoxStyle.YesNoCancel Or _
    MsgBoxStyle.Question Or _
    MsgBoxStyle.DefaultButton2, _
    "Customer Order Processing")
    End Sub

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