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XtraMessageBox.Show(IWin32Window, String, String, DialogResult[], Icon, Int32, MessageBoxIcon, DefaultBoolean) Method

Displays the XtraMessageBox with the specified settings.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraEditors

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditors.v24.2.dll

Declaration

[Browsable(false)]
[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public static DialogResult Show(
    IWin32Window owner,
    string text,
    string caption,
    DialogResult[] buttons,
    Icon icon,
    int defaultButton,
    MessageBoxIcon messageBeepSound,
    DefaultBoolean allowHtmlText
)

Parameters

Name Type Description
owner IWin32Window

An object that serves as the top-level window and owner of a dialog box.

text String

The text to display in the message box.

caption String

A string value that specifies the caption of a message box.

buttons DialogResult[]

An array of values that specify which buttons to display in the message box.

icon Icon

The Icon displayed in the message box.

defaultButton Int32

The zero-based index of the default button.

messageBeepSound MessageBoxIcon

One of the MessageBoxIcon values that specifies a system-alert level.

allowHtmlText DefaultBoolean

A value that specifies whether HTML tags can be used to format the text and caption of a message box. See XtraMessageBox.AllowHtmlText to learn more.

Returns

Type Description
DialogResult

One of the DialogResult values.

Remarks

The following list shows the default parameters of the Show method overloads. You can override these parameters using a specific Show method overload.

  • Caption - Empty string
  • Buttons - MessageBoxButtons.OK
  • Owner - null
  • Icon - MessageBoxIcon.None
  • DefaultButton - MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1
  • XtraMessageBox.AllowHtmlText - DefaultBoolean.Default

Example

This example demonstrates how to display the XtraMessageBox.

WinForms XtraMessageBox

using DevExpress.XtraEditors;
using DevExpress.Utils;

private void simpleButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    if(XtraMessageBox.Show("Do you want to close the <b>form</b>?", "Warning", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Warning, DefaultBoolean.True) == DialogResult.Yes)
        this.Close();
}
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