Creating Custom Dialog Boxes
Most of the time, the MessageBox.Show() method should be a sufficient means to display messages to a user. At times, however, the MessageBox.Show() method is too limited for a given purpose. For example, suppose you wanted to display a lot of text and therefore wanted a message box that was sizable by the user.
Custom dialog boxes are nothing more than standard modal forms with one notable exception: one or more buttons are designated to return a dialog result, the same as the buttons on a message box shown with the MessageBox.Show() method.
You're now going to create a custom dialog box. Create a new Windows Application titled Custom Dialog Example. Change the name of the default form to fclsMain, set its Text property ...
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