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Getting Started with WinForms MessageBox

The following tutorial will show you a simple usage of RadMessageBox:

1. Create a new Windows Application in Visual Studio

2. Drag and drop a RadButton on the form.

3. Subscribe to the Click event of this RadButton.

4. Make sure that you import/use the following namespaces

using Telerik.WinControls;

Imports Telerik.WinControls

5. In the RadButton.Click event handler, first set the theme of the RadMessageBox and then call its static Show method of the RadMessageBox class, passing the appropriate parameters. Set the RadMessageBox.Show method to a DialogResult variable:

Setting a theme and showing RadMessageBox

private void radButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    RadMessageBox.SetThemeName("Desert");

    DialogResult ds = RadMessageBox.Show(this, "Are you sure?", "Title", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, RadMessageIcon.Question);
    this.Text = ds.ToString();
}

Private Sub RadButton1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadButton1.Click
    RadMessageBox.SetThemeName("Desert")
    Dim ds As DialogResult = RadMessageBox.Show(Me, "Are you sure?", "Title", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, RadMessageIcon.Question)
    Me.Text = ds.ToString()
End Sub

6. The result RadMessageBox is shown below:

WinForms RadMessageBox Getting Started

See Also

Telerik UI for WinForms Learning Resources

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