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Create your own dialog boxes
You can make your own dialogs

Every form has a showdialog() method

Once a button is clicked the form disappears and dialogresult is passed back

Example (create your own dialog boxes )

• create a new project
• add a second form called dialog.vb
• drag a button to form1
• go to the new form(dialog.vb)
• add label, textbox, 2 buttons like picture below

ask for name and OK and cancel button

• Resize the form to make it smaller
• Rename the buttons btnOK and btnCancel
• Name the textbox txtName
• go into the code for the form

Select the form and click the code button on the solution explorer

• add this property

readonly property username() as string
get
return txtName.text
end get
end property

• select the form and select acceptbutton property, set it to btnOK

• set cancelbutton property to cancel button

• click the OK button
• change dialogresult to OK

• change it to cancel on cancel button

• Open form1.vb
• Add a button to form1
• double click button on form1
• Add this code:

Dim namedialog As New dialog()
If namedialog.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
MessageBox.Show("You clicked Yes and entered "& _ 
namedialog.username)
End If

• run program