[RESOLVED] Msgbox v MessageBox

[Strider]

Ok another one of these which is better and why choose one over the other threads.

Is there any big difference between the Msgbox and MessageBox.

from what i can see the messagebox has a lot more options to it, but the Msgbox for me is just that much more simpler.

Also i've noticed that after you do a messagebox.show i try set focus to a control after but it does not focus to the control

whats everyone else view?

[tr333]

MsgBox is part of the Microsoft.Compatibility namespace as it came from VB6.

MessageBox is the .NET class and it has more features.

You should try to use the MessageBox class wherever possible.

[Strider]

MessageBox.Show("there is an erro", "Mytitle", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1, MessageBoxOptions.DefaultDesktopOnly)

textbox1.focus
textbox1.selectall

however the focus and the select all does not work with the messagebox, whereas it does with msgbox

[taxes]

MessageBox.Show("there is an erro", "Mytitle", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1, MessageBoxOptions.DefaultDesktopOnly)

textbox1.focus
textbox1.selectall

however the focus and the select all does not work with the messagebox, whereas it does with msgbox

Hi,

Works OK for me. (I cut & pasted your code)

[Strider]

hmmm it does now for me, that didnt a few mins ago... ah well

[jmcilhinney]

MsgBox is part of the Microsoft.Compatibility namespace as it came from VB6.

MessageBox is the .NET class and it has more features.

You should try to use the MessageBox class wherever possible.

MsgBox has nothing to do with the Microsoft.Comapatibility namespace, which is provided only for the use of the VB6 upgrade wizard in order to allow certain things in VB6 that do not have .NET equivalents to still work when upgraded. MsgBox is a function from the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace, which includes fully .NET implementations of functions that provide the same functionality as similarly named functionsn that exist in VB6. MsgBox and MessageBox.Show have essentially the same functionality because MsgBox actually calls MessageBox.Show itself. There is next to no difference between the two performance-wise as well, except that there is really no point making the extra function call when you don't have to. In short, there is no reason not to use MessageBox.Show. It is just that VB6 developers are already comfortable with MsgBox and are reluctant to change without a compelling reason, and there really is no compelling reason.

[taxes]

hmmm it does now for me, that didnt a few mins ago... ah well

No worries. My wife often says that to me