Normally, you can’t change startup location of standard message box. Solutions for your question: Create your own custom message box. There is example of creation on CodeProject. Complicated way using Windows Hook Procedure (WinAPI) (KB180936).
You can’t reasonably display a message box either on the client’s computer or the server. For the client’s computer, you’ll want to redirect to an error page with an appropriate error message, perhaps including the exception message and stack trace if you want. On the server, you’ll probably want to do some logging, either to … Read more
This is a long answer, but there’s a lot of ground to cover: it’s also a late reply, but things have changed since some of the replies to this (and similar questions) have been posted on the stack. That sucks like a vacuum cleaner on triple-phase AC, because they were good answers when they were … Read more
MessageBox uses a plain window that can be messed with like any other window. This has been possible in Windows for a very long time, well over 20 years already. The techniques are getting obscure though, too many friendly class wrappers that hide the native winapi and don’t expose everything you can do with it. … Read more
There is no native support for this in .NET (as far as I know, anyway; please correct me if I’m wrong, anyone). I did come across this CodeProject article, that seem to do the trick with some message hooking and P/Invoke: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/Localizing_MessageBox.aspx
Here is a piece of code based on UIAutomation (a cool but still not very used API) that attempts to close all modal windows (including the one opened with MessageBox) of the current process: /// <summary> /// Attempt to close modal windows if there are any. /// </summary> public static void CloseModalWindows() { // get … Read more
It is possible, a message box is a regular window that can be messed with like any other. The code to do so is however a bit gritty. Add a new class to your project and paste this code: using System; using System.Text; using System.Drawing; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; class BoldMessageBox : IDisposable { private … Read more
I really needed this in C# and found Center MessageBox C#. Here’s a nicely formatted version using System; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Text; using System.Drawing; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; public class MessageBoxEx { private static IWin32Window _owner; private static HookProc _hookProc; private static IntPtr _hHook; public static DialogResult Show(string text) { Initialize(); return MessageBox.Show(text); } public static DialogResult … Read more
The WPF equivalent would be the System.Windows.MessageBox. It has a quite similar interface, but uses other enumerations for parameters and return value.
I didn’t think it would be that simple! go to this link: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18399/Localizing-System-MessageBox Download the source. Take the MessageBoxManager.cs file, add it to your project. Now just register it once in your code (for example in the Main() method inside your Program.cs file) and it will work every time you call MessageBox.Show(): MessageBoxManager.OK = “Alright”; … Read more