Create a Modeless Messagebox

Question

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 (rat

Answer 1

Short of writing the code, you could create a small form that in the constructor does the following

• Takes a parameter string as the message to display
• Fills up a label on the form with this string
• Loads an icon with one of the following (pass in an Enum to the constructor)
  • SystemIcons.Application
  • SystemIcons.Asterix
  • SystemIcons.Error
  • SystemIcons.Exclamation
  • SystemIcons.Hand
  • SystemIcons.Information
  • SystemIcons.Question
  • SystemIcons.Shield
  • SystemIcons.Warning
  • SystemIcons.WinLogo
• Calls Show() which will cause it to be a modal dialog

If you really wanted, you could listen to an event that is fired when the OK button is pushed.