Preventing a dialog from closing in the button's click event handler

Question

I have a dialog that I show with <class>.ShowDialog(). It has an OK button and a Cancel button; the OK button also has an event handler.

I want to do some input validation in the event handler and, if it fails, notify the user with a message box and prevent the dialog from closing. I don't know how to do the last part (preventing the close).

Answer 1

You can cancel closing by setting the Form's DialogResult to DialogResult.None.

An example where button1 is the AcceptButton:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {   if (!validate())      this.DialogResult = DialogResult.None; } 

When the user clicks button1 and the validate method returns false, the form will not be closed.