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A message box is a prefabricated modal dialog box that displays a text message to a user.

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ASP.NET Web Application Message Box

In an asp.net windows forms application, in the C# code behind you can use: MessageBox.Show("Here is my message"); Is there any equivalent in a asp.net web application? Can I call something from the C# code behind that will display a message box…
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Is there a non-blocking version of MessageBox.Show (or something like it)?

Long-delayed update I'm accepting MUG4N's answer to this question, and I also want to respond to some of the criticisms that were raised against it. ChrisF said: ...you can't make UI calls directly from background threads. This is a blanket…
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Bold text in MessageBox

How can I show the text in bold in the dialog displayed by MessageBox.Show, using C#?
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Show a message box from a class in c#?

How do you get a class to interact with the form to show a message box?
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MessageBox.Show-- font change?

I'm using the MessageBox class to show errors to users, and while that might not be the right behavior, it's very convenient. This is a touchscreen application, however, so I need the 'ok' button to be much larger than it is (curse my inordinately…
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Dialog MessageBox sometimes hidden behind the main form

Some of our non-technical users are having problems where a dialog MessageBox in our application can sometimes be displayed behind the main form and the application does not accept any input until the messagebox (which they can't see) is…
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MessageBox Buttons?

How would I say if the yes button on the messagebox was pressed do this,that and the other? In C#.
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System.Windows.MessageBox vs System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox

I am having trouble finding out what the key differences are between the two message boxes. What is the difference between System.Windows.MessageBox and System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox?
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Clickable URL in a Winform Message Box?

I want to display a link to help in a message box. By default the text is displayed as a non-selectable string.
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MessageBox buttons - set language?

When you use MessageBox.Show() you have a selection of MessageBoxButtons to choose from. The buttons available are an enum, and give you options like "Yes No", "OK Cancel", etc. When I am using, for instance, Norwegian message text the user still…
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Force to close MessageBox programmatically

Let me give you the background. We have an Application(medium sized) that is using MessageBox.Show (....) at various places (in hundreds). These message boxes are part of workflow and being used for informing,warning or taking input from an user.…
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Python PyQt5: How to show an error message with PyQt5

In normal Python (3.x) we always use showerror() from the tkinter module to display an error message but what should I do in PyQt5 to display exactly the same message type as well?
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Create a Modeless Messagebox

How might one go about creating a Modeless MessageBox? Do I have to just create my own Windows Form class and use that? If so, is there an easy way of adding a warning icon (rather than inserting my own image of one) and resizing based on text…
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WPF : Dispatcher processing has been suspended, but messages are still being processed

I Have a WPF Project, When i try to Run This Code On RowLoad Event I got below Error : private void ParentGridView_OnRowLoaded(object sender, EventArgs e) { try { if(((RadGridView)sender).Columns != null) { …
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c# select text from messagebox.show popup

i've been searching on google and stackoverflow for 2hours now. There has to be something i am just simply overlooking. Is there an easy way to make the text selectable in a messagebox? As of right now when i call a MessageBox.Show() i can not copy…
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