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Prompt Dialog in Windows Forms

Asked 2011-03-24T23:51:51.483
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I am using System.Windows.Forms but strangely enough don't have the ability to create them.

How can I get something like a javascript prompt dialog, without javascript?

MessageBox is nice, but there is no way for the user to enter an input.

I want the user to enter any text input possible.

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There is no such thing natively in Windows Forms.

You have to create your own form for that or:

use the Microsoft.VisualBasic reference.

Inputbox is legacy code brought into .Net for VB6 compatibility - so i advise to not do this.

answered 2011-03-24T23:59:30.530
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Bas Brekelmans's answer is very elegant in its simplicity. But, I found that for an actual application a little more is needed such as:

  • Grow form appropriately when message text is too long.
  • Doesn't automatically popup in middle of screen.
  • Doesn't provide any validation of user input.

The class here handles these limitations: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31315/Getting-User-Input-With-Dialogs-Part-1

I just downloaded source and copied InputBox.cs into my project.

Surprised there isn't something even better though... My only real complaint is it caption text doesn't support newlines in it since it uses a label control.

answered 2012-08-20T04:11:06.793

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