Show message Box in .net console application

Question

How to show a message box in a .net c# or vb console application ? Something like:

 Console.WriteLine("Hello World");  MessageBox.Show("Hello World"); 

or

Console.WriteLine("Hello") MsgBox("Hello") 

in c# and vb respectively.
Is it possible?

Answer 1

We can show a message box in a console application. But first include this reference in your vb.net or c# console application

System.Windows.Forms; 

Reference:

To add reference in vb.net program right click (in solution explorer) on your project name-> then add reference-> then .Net-> then select System.Windows.Forms.
To add reference in c# program right click in your project folders shown in solution explorer on add references-> .Net -> select System.Windows.Forms.

then you can do the below code for c# console application:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace ConsoleApplication6 {     class Program     {         static void Main(string[] args)         {               MessageBox.Show("Hello World");         }     } } 

For the vb.net application you can simply code after inclusion of above mentioned reference

Module Module1      Sub Main()         MsgBox("Hello")         Console.ReadKey()       End Sub  End Module 

Adapted from this answer to a related question.