Is there a MessageBox equivalent in WPF?

Question

Is there a standard message box in WPF, like WinForms' System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(), or should I use the WinForms message box?

Answer 1

WPF contains the following MessageBox:

if (MessageBox.Show("Do you want to Save?", "Confirm", 
    MessageBoxButton.YesNo, MessageBoxImage.Question) == MessageBoxResult.Yes)
{

}

Answer 2

The equivalent to WinForms' MessageBox in WPF is called System.Windows.MessageBox.

Answer 3

As the others say, there is a MessageBox in the WPF namespace (System.Windows).

The problem is that it is the same old messagebox with OK, Cancel, etc. Windows Vista and Windows 7 have moved on to use Task Dialogs instead.

Unfortunately there is no easy standard interface for task dialogs. I use an implementation from CodeProject KB.

Answer 4

The MessageBox in the Extended WPF Toolkit is very nice. It's at Microsoft.Windows.Controls.MessageBox after referencing the toolkit DLL. Of course this was released Aug 9 2011 so it would not have been an option for you originally. It can be found at Github for everyone out there looking around.

Answer 5

Maybe the code here below helps:

using Windows.UI.Popups;
namespace something.MyViewModels
{
    public class TestViewModel
    {
        public void aRandonMethode()
        {
            MyMessageBox("aRandomMessage");
        }

        public async void MyMessageBox(string mytext)
        {
            var dialog = new MessageDialog(mytext);
            await dialog.ShowAsync();
        }
    }
}

Answer 6

You can use this:

MessageBoxResult result = MessageBox.Show("Do you want to close this window?",
                                          "Confirmation",
                                          MessageBoxButton.YesNo,
                                          MessageBoxImage.Question);
if (result == MessageBoxResult.Yes)
{
    Application.Current.Shutdown();
}

For more information, visit MessageBox in WPF.