How do you make an InputBox in C#

[Mattias Sjögren]

Max,

>It was easy for me to find System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show() to get the
>MsgBox to pop up, but how do you get the InputBox?

Create a Form with a Textbox, two Buttons and a Label on it.


Mattias

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Mattias Sjögren (VB MVP)
mattias @ mvps.org
http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/

[max caber]

It was easy for me to find System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show() to get the
MsgBox to pop up, but how do you get the InputBox?
Thanks

[Patrick Steele [MVP]]

In article <3d06571b$1@10.1.10.29> (from max caber
<maxcaber@yahoo.com>),
>
> It was easy for me to find System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show() to get the
> MsgBox to pop up, but how do you get the InputBox?

You could always use the one from VB.NET if you don't want to make one
yourself:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;
using Microsoft.VisualBasic; // include VB.NET functions

class MainForm : Form
{
private Button m_Button;

public MainForm()
{
Text = "This is my form";
m_Button = new Button();
m_Button.Size = new Size(60,30);
m_Button.Location = new Point(5,5);
m_Button.Text = "Show";
m_Button.Click += new EventHandler(show_inp);

this.Controls.Add(m_Button);
}

public void show_inp(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string str = Interaction.InputBox("Prompt", "Title", "<def>", 30, 40);
}

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Application.Run(new MainForm());
}
}

--
Patrick Steele
Microsoft .NET MVP

[max caber]

Patrick Steele [MVP] <patrick@mvps.org> wrote:

using Microsoft.VisualBasic; // include VB.NET functions
//other code
string str = Interaction.InputBox("Prompt", "Title", "<def>", 30, 40);
//more code

Are the classes in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace part of the ECMA standard?
Max

[Patrick Steele [MVP]]

In article <3d0761cc$1@10.1.10.29> (from max caber
<maxcaber@yahoo.com>),
>
> Patrick Steele [MVP] <patrick@mvps.org> wrote:
>
> using Microsoft.VisualBasic; // include VB.NET functions
> //other code
> string str = Interaction.InputBox("Prompt", "Title", "<def>", 30, 40);
> //more code
>
> Are the classes in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace part of the ECMA standard?

I doubt it. It's my understanding that the ECMA standard is on the C#
language, not any particualr set of namespaces.

--
Patrick Steele
Microsoft .NET MVP

[max caber]

Patrick Steele [MVP] <patrick@mvps.org> wrote:

>I doubt it. It's my understanding that the ECMA standard is on the C#
>language, not any particualr set of namespaces.

I read that the ECMA standard was on the C# language and the .NET API. If
you go to http://www.go-mono.com/, you will see the progress evolving with
the open source implementation of the .NET class libraries and C# compiler.

As for VB.NET, when there is a .NET class/method that performs the same function
as a "built in VB command", I choose the .NET class/method because it is
more portable across languages and future platforms.

I do appreciate all the responses to my original question, "How do you make
an InputBox in C#?", but I would like to find a .NET class/method that does
this.

[max caber]

"Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" <former_mvp@nospam.trigeminal.spamless.com> wrote:
>As many have said before, there is not one.
>
>But you should feel free to keep asking and getting back the same answer
>until you understand. :-)

Responses to my question demonstrated ways to manually create a Form containing
a TextBox and Buttons, and how to use a VB.NET class to show an InputBox.
However, you are the first to inform me that, "there is not one” (a .NET
ECMA standard class/method to show an input box). Thank you for providing
me with this surprising information.

I do have to admit that I am a little taken back, because there has been
an InputBox Function in VB since I can remember, there is one in JavaScript,
and Java. How could the .NET people have forgotten such a simple, useful,
practical thing, when they thought of everything else?