puglover

In this walkthrough you will build and run a simple Windows Form.

To create a Windows Form

Start Visual Studio.
Create a Windows Application called HelloWorld. For details, see Creating a Windows Application Project.
From the Toolbox, drag a Button control onto the form.
Click the button to select it. In the Properties window, set the Text property to "Say Hello".
To write the code for your application

Double-click the button to add an event handler for the Button1 Click event. The Code Editor will open with the insertion point placed within the event handler.
Insert the following code:
' Visual Basic
MessageBox.Show ("Hello, World!")

// C#
MessageBox.Show("Hello, World!");

// C++
MessageBox:how("Hello, World!");
To test your application

Press F5 to run the application.
When your application is running, click the button and verify that "Hello, World!" is shown.
Close the Windows Form to return to Visual Studio

for some reason it wont work when i press F5.......
what exactly is it supposed to be doing ?
and by the way i am not sure if this is the right forum....

Wraith Daquell

puglover,

This code will pop up a message that says "Hello, World" on it.
Assuming that you are doing this in VB.NET, there could be a variety of problems associated with your code.
If you are typing in the lines:

// C#
MessageBox.Show("Hello, World!");

// C++
MessageBox:how("Hello, World!");

... then your program will not run. These lines are not to be typed into VB.NET.

If this isn't your problem, it would be great if you could post the error message that pops up when you press F5.

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puglover

It doesn't matter I worked it out but thanks anyways lol

melbolt

just go in the button's event handler by double clicking it on the designer form and type msgbox(

when you hit the ( intellisense will kick in, the first parameter you can put your string

ex: "hello world"

and for the second parameter just hit a comma followed by your space bar and it will give you a bunch of different types of message boxes to choose from, pick a simple one like one of the "OK" ones and that should do it.

it will look something like this:

msgbox("hello world", MsgBoxStyle.OKOnly)

i believe that is it, intellisense will correct me if i'm wrong.

that's the way i use messageboxes normally, pretty simple and straight forward.

good luck!

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Dameon

Be sure to in the future look at the build results. That tells you why it isn't working. Glad to hear it's working.

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