This page has 0 threads | Add post

Exercises

Finding our exercises useful? Please consider helping us to share more!

Software ==>	Visual C# (55 exercises)
Topic ==>	Laying out your code (2 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	C# training

Use C# to customise a message box title and caption from form entries

This exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to choose the correct Wise Owl Microsoft training course, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

To avoid having to draw the form needed for this exercise, right-click on the name of your project in Solution Explorer then choose Add --> Existing Item... (you can also press SHIFT + ALT + A to do the same thing).

Choose only the file called frmLazyMessageBox.cs in the above folder to import it into your project, then edit Program.cs to make this the default form. When you run your application, you should now see this:

You'll be able to fill in the various parts to get a message box displayed on screen!

Double-click on the Show message button to create event-handling code. Type in MessageBox.Show( to start a command; Visual Studio will give 21 different argument signatures that you can use (you can click on the black triangles as shown below to move between these):