XtraMessageBox.Show(String, String, MessageBoxButtons, MessageBoxIcon, MessageBoxDefaultButton, DefaultBoolean) Method

Displays the XtraMessageBox with the specified settings.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraEditors

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditors.v24.2.dll

Declaration

C#

[Browsable(false)]
[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public static DialogResult Show(
    string text,
    string caption,
    MessageBoxButtons buttons,
    MessageBoxIcon icon,
    MessageBoxDefaultButton defaultButton,
    DefaultBoolean allowHtmlText
)

VB.NET

<Browsable(False)>
<EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)>
Public Shared Function Show(
    text As String,
    caption As String,
    buttons As MessageBoxButtons,
    icon As MessageBoxIcon,
    defaultButton As MessageBoxDefaultButton,
    allowHtmlText As DefaultBoolean
) As DialogResult

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
text	String	The text to display in the message box.
caption	String	A string value that specifies the message box’s caption.
buttons	MessageBoxButtons	A value that specifies which buttons to display in the message box.
icon	MessageBoxIcon	One of the MessageBoxIcon values that specifies which icon to display in the message box.
defaultButton	MessageBoxDefaultButton	One of the MessageBoxDefaultButton values that specifies the default button for the message box.
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.

C#

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();
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.XtraEditors
Imports DevExpress.Utils

Private Sub simpleButton1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    If XtraMessageBox.Show("Do you want to close the <b>form</b>?", "Warning", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Warning, DefaultBoolean.True) = DialogResult.Yes Then
        Me.Close()
    End If
End Sub