Newbie C# wants to know how to call Aboutbox

[ozgeek]

Hi. I am very new to the C# programming language. I am using Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition that came on the PC Authority magazine cover discs.

I have followed a tutorial bundled with the program on how to build a simple web-browser and I have succeed. Now I am building on from it to add more basic features and has succeeded. See screenshot below.

I am now in the stage of attempting to bundle an About Box to my web browser. I have a About Box ready to go but how do I call it when I click About > About Robo Browser.

I have also attached the code of the main form (the web brower) for any of you to look at. I just wanted to know what the code is to call the About Box which is called AboutBox1.cs in my project. I did search all help sources, but they did not provide much help on how to call it.

Edited June 11, 2005 by mr.roberts

[unequivocal]

  mr.roberts said:

Hi. I am very new to the C# programming language. I am using Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition that came on the PC Authority magazine cover discs.

I have followed a tutorial bundled with the program on how to build a simple web-browser and I have succeed. Now I am building on from it to add more basic features and has succeeded. See screenshot below.

I am now in the stage of attempting to bundle an About Box to my web browser. I have a About Box ready to go but how do I call it when I click About > About Robo Browser.

I have also attached the code of the main form (the web brower) for any of you to look at. I just wanted to know what the code is to call the About Box which is called AboutBox1.cs in my project. I did search all help sources, but they did not provide much help on how to call it.

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Probably something like:

AboutBox1 AboutMe = new AboutBox1();
AboutMe.Show();

I'd have to look at the project, but that should work if the class name is AboutBox1; if not then just plug in the class name.

That was hard for me to grasp when moving from VB6 to C#. In VB6, it would create a form's "default instance" if you called it without instantiating it first. .NET doesn't do that; so you have to create a new instance for each form you use.

[+virtorio MVC]

I assume your about box class is called 'AboutBox'. If so, for the menu event handler write

  AboutBox ab = new AboutBox();
  ab.ShowDialog();

This will also work:

  new AboutBox().ShowDialog();

[comctrl6]

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AboutBox1 AboutMe = new AboutBox1();
AboutMe.Show();

Actually, now with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2 you should be able to do something like this:

AboutMe.Show();

Since the default instances are back in business!

[ozgeek]

Thank you virtorio and comctrl06! It works now. It's a wonder that I have created my own browser. I know that it uses IE as it's base engine because it loads my IE homepage.