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Syed Osama Maruf
Syed Osama Maruf

Reputation: 1935

Show message Box in .net console application

How to show a message box in a .net c# or vb console application ? Something like:

 Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
 MessageBox.Show("Hello World");

or

Console.WriteLine("Hello")
MsgBox("Hello")

in c# and vb respectively.
Is it possible?

Upvotes: 45

Views: 111324

Answers (4)

Nikhil Nambiar
Nikhil Nambiar

Reputation: 436

To have a simple message box inside your console application you can follow the below steps.

  1. Create a property with attribute of

     using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

 [DllImport("User32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
 public static extern int MessageBox(IntPtr h, string m, string c, int type);

  2. User the property to call the message box.

     using System;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

 namespace AllKeys
 {
     public class Program
     {
         [DllImport("User32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
         public static extern int MessageBox(IntPtr h, string m, string c, int type);

         public static void Main(string[] args)
         {
             MessageBox((IntPtr)0, "Your Message", "My Message Box", 0);
         }
     }
 }

Upvotes: 38

Siavash Mortazavi
Siavash Mortazavi

Reputation: 1842

For .NET 5 and .NET 6 =>

  1. Create the console app the regular way.

  2. Update the TargetFramework in .csproj with one of these:

    <TargetFramework>net5.0-windows</TargetFramework>

    <!--OR-->

    <TargetFramework>net6.0-windows</TargetFramework>

  3. Add this to .csproj:

    <UseWPF>true</UseWPF>

    <!-- AND/OR -->

    <UseWindowsForms>true</UseWindowsForms>

  4. Compile the app, so the referenced .NET dlls get updated.

  5. For the WPF message box add using System.Windows; and for the Windows Forms message box add using System.Windows.Forms; on the top of your code file. Then, just make calls to MessageBox.Show("...")

Upvotes: 5

Marco Concas
Marco Concas

Reputation: 1892

In C# add the reference "PresentationFramework" in the project. Next in the class that you need the MessageBox add

using System.Windows;

also you can call the MessageBox class without the using like that:

System.Windows.MessageBox.Show("Stackoverflow");

Upvotes: 4

Syed Osama Maruf
Syed Osama Maruf

Reputation: 1935

We can show a message box in a console application. But first include this reference in your vb.net or c# console application

System.Windows.Forms;

Reference:

To add reference in vb.net program right click (in solution explorer) on your project name-> then add reference-> then .Net-> then select System.Windows.Forms.
To add reference in c# program right click in your project folders shown in solution explorer on add references-> .Net -> select System.Windows.Forms.

then you can do the below code for c# console application:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace ConsoleApplication6
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {


            MessageBox.Show("Hello World");
        }
    }
}

For the vb.net application you can simply code after inclusion of above mentioned reference

Module Module1

    Sub Main()
        MsgBox("Hello")
        Console.ReadKey()


    End Sub

End Module

Adapted from this answer to a related question.

Upvotes: 52

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