MessageBox with YesNoCancel - No & Cancel triggers same event

Bibhas Debnath picture Bibhas Debnath · Feb 13, 2010 · Viewed 425.8k times · Source

I have a message box with the YesNoCancel buttons...

  • Pressing Yes will do some action and close the application - works fine
  • Pressing No will do nothing and close the application - (see below)
  • Pressing Cancel will do nothing and keep the application open - (see below).

I'm using DialogResult.No for the No button and DialogResult.Cancel for the Cancel button. But pressing either of them triggers DialogResult.Cancel event. What's the problem?

Answer

Darin Dimitrov picture Darin Dimitrov · Feb 13, 2010

This should work fine:

Dim result As DialogResult = MessageBox.Show("message", "caption", MessageBoxButtons.YesNoCancel)
If result = DialogResult.Cancel Then
    MessageBox.Show("Cancel pressed")
ElseIf result = DialogResult.No Then
    MessageBox.Show("No pressed")
ElseIf result = DialogResult.Yes Then
    MessageBox.Show("Yes pressed")
End If