How do I create a MessageBox in C#?

Question

I have just installed C# for the first time, and at first glance it appears to be very similar to VB6. I decided to start off by trying to make a 'Hello, World!' UI Edition.

I started in the Form Designer and made a button named "Click Me!" proceeded to double-click it and typed in

MessageBox("Hello, World!"); 

I received the following error:

MessageBox is a 'type' but used as a 'variable'

Fair enough, it seems in C# MessageBox is an Object. I tried the following

MessageBox a = new MessageBox("Hello, World!"); 

I received the following error: MessageBox does not contain a constructor that takes '1' arguments

Now I am stumped. Please help.

Answer 1

MessageBox.Show also returns a DialogResult, which if you put some buttons on there, means you can have it returned what the user clicked. Most of the time I write something like

if (MessageBox.Show("Do you want to continue?", "Question", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) == MessageBoxResult.Yes) {      //some interesting behaviour here } 

which I guess is a bit unwieldy but it gets the job done.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.dialogresult for additional enum options you can use here.

Answer 2

Code summary:

using System.Windows.Forms;  ...  MessageBox.Show( "hello world" ); 

Also (as per this other stack post): In Visual Studio expand the project in Solution Tree, right click on References, Add Reference, Select System.Windows.Forms on Framework tab. This will get the MessageBox working in conjunction with the using System.Windows.Forms reference from above.