VB.Net MessageBox.Show() moves my form to the back

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Pittsburgh DBA picture Pittsburgh DBA · Oct 1, 2008 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

I have an MDI application. When I show a message box using MessageBox.Show(), the entire application disappears behind all of my open windows when I dismiss the message box.

The code is not doing anything special. In fact, here is the line that invokes the message box from within an MDI Child form:

MessageBox.Show(String.Format("{0} saved successfully.", Me.BusinessUnitTypeName), "Save Successful", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1, MessageBoxOptions.DefaultDesktopOnly)

Me.BusinessUnitTypeName() is a read only property getter that returns a string, depending upon the value of a member variable. There are no side effects in this property.

Any ideas?

Answer

Mitch Wheat picture Mitch Wheat · Oct 1, 2008

Remove the last parameter, MessageBoxOptions.DefaultDesktopOnly.

From MSDN:

DefaultDesktopOnly will cause the application that raised the MessageBox to lose focus. The MessageBox that is displayed will not use visual styles. For more information, see Rendering Controls with Visual Styles.

The last parameter allows communication of a background Windows Service with the active desktop through means of csrss.exe! See Bart de Smet's blog post for details.

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