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z
I just installed Visual Studio .Net with Framework 1.1. I already had VB6
SP6 installed.

I wanted to do a quick "hello world" example in VB.Net. The code is here:

Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
Dim s As String
Dim r As Long

s = "hello"
r = MsgBox(s, MsgBoxStyle.OKC ancel, "a message")
End Sub

The msgbox pops up when you click the button, but the box is empty, and the
buttons have no text on them (saying OK or Cancel), they are just empty grey
buttons. The title does display correctly as "a message". I then ran the
Calc application sample that comes with the .Net install which has a msgbox
when you try to divide by zero, and it's message box and buttons are empty
too.

This appears to be a bug, but am I missing something? There are no service
packs for the 1.1 framework yet.

Any help or knowledge would be appreciated.

z
Nov 21 '05 #1
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"z" <z@z.z> schrieb:
I wanted to do a quick "hello world" example in VB.Net. The code is here:

Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
Dim s As String
Dim r As Long

s = "hello"
r = MsgBox(s, MsgBoxStyle.OKC ancel, "a message")
End Sub

The msgbox pops up when you click the button, but the box is empty, and
the
buttons have no text on them (saying OK or Cancel)


Maybe you are using McAfee VirusScan. This product has a bug in its buffer
overflow protection that NAI is aware of and that can be fixed by installing
a patch:

Patch 5 for McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i
<URL:https://knowledgemap.na i.com/phpclient/viewKDoc.aspx?u rl=kb/kb_kb38717.xml& docType=DOC_Kno wledgeBase>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
Nov 21 '05 #2
Try using MessageBox.Show (.....) method.

Chris
"z" <z@z.z> wrote in message news:ul******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...
I just installed Visual Studio .Net with Framework 1.1. I already had VB6
SP6 installed.

I wanted to do a quick "hello world" example in VB.Net. The code is here:

Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
Dim s As String
Dim r As Long

s = "hello"
r = MsgBox(s, MsgBoxStyle.OKC ancel, "a message")
End Sub

The msgbox pops up when you click the button, but the box is empty, and
the
buttons have no text on them (saying OK or Cancel), they are just empty
grey
buttons. The title does display correctly as "a message". I then ran the
Calc application sample that comes with the .Net install which has a
msgbox
when you try to divide by zero, and it's message box and buttons are empty
too.

This appears to be a bug, but am I missing something? There are no
service
packs for the 1.1 framework yet.

Any help or knowledge would be appreciated.

z

Nov 21 '05 #3
Hi Z,

In .net, use messagebox.show ("the message") instead.

Bernie Yaeger

"z" <z@z.z> wrote in message news:ul******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...
I just installed Visual Studio .Net with Framework 1.1. I already had VB6
SP6 installed.

I wanted to do a quick "hello world" example in VB.Net. The code is here:

Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
Dim s As String
Dim r As Long

s = "hello"
r = MsgBox(s, MsgBoxStyle.OKC ancel, "a message")
End Sub

The msgbox pops up when you click the button, but the box is empty, and
the
buttons have no text on them (saying OK or Cancel), they are just empty
grey
buttons. The title does display correctly as "a message". I then ran the
Calc application sample that comes with the .Net install which has a
msgbox
when you try to divide by zero, and it's message box and buttons are empty
too.

This appears to be a bug, but am I missing something? There are no
service
packs for the 1.1 framework yet.

Any help or knowledge would be appreciated.

z

Nov 21 '05 #4

"z" <z@z.z> wrote in message news:ul******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...
I just installed Visual Studio .Net with Framework 1.1. I already had VB6
SP6 installed.

I wanted to do a quick "hello world" example in VB.Net. The code is here:

Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
Dim s As String
Dim r As Long

s = "hello"
r = MsgBox(s, MsgBoxStyle.OKC ancel, "a message")
End Sub

....

Dim s As String
s = "hello"
MessageBox.Show (s, "a message", MessageBoxButto ns.OK)
Nov 21 '05 #5
z
Outstanding. That is the problem! I disabled buffer overrun in my McAfee
version 8 software and it started working.

Thanks very much, I will try the patch.

z
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:O$******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...
"z" <z@z.z> schrieb:
I wanted to do a quick "hello world" example in VB.Net. The code is here:
Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
Dim s As String
Dim r As Long

s = "hello"
r = MsgBox(s, MsgBoxStyle.OKC ancel, "a message")
End Sub

The msgbox pops up when you click the button, but the box is empty, and
the
buttons have no text on them (saying OK or Cancel)
Maybe you are using McAfee VirusScan. This product has a bug in its

buffer overflow protection that NAI is aware of and that can be fixed by installing a patch:

Patch 5 for McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i
<URL:https://knowledgemap.nai.com/phpclie...=kb/kb_kb38717.
xml&docType=DOC _KnowledgeBase>
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

Nov 21 '05 #6
"z" <z@z.z> schrieb:
Outstanding. That is the problem! I disabled buffer overrun in my McAfee
version 8 software and it started working.
I am glad to hear that!
Thanks very much, I will try the patch.


I strongly recomment to install the patch.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
Nov 21 '05 #7
"Bernie Yaeger" <be*****@cherwe llinc.com> schrieb:
In .net, use messagebox.show ("the message") instead.


Huh?! Why? 'MsgBox' is (still) available and valid part of Visual Basic
..NET (in other words, it's not deprecated).

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
Nov 21 '05 #8
Hi Herfried,

I know it's not deprecated, but messagebox.show is more flexible, in my
opinion.

Bernie

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:Od******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...
"Bernie Yaeger" <be*****@cherwe llinc.com> schrieb:
In .net, use messagebox.show ("the message") instead.


Huh?! Why? 'MsgBox' is (still) available and valid part of Visual Basic
.NET (in other words, it's not deprecated).

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

Nov 21 '05 #9
z
The patch worked perfectly.

z

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP09.phx.gbl. ..
"z" <z@z.z> schrieb:
Outstanding. That is the problem! I disabled buffer overrun in my McAfee version 8 software and it started working.


I am glad to hear that!
Thanks very much, I will try the patch.


I strongly recomment to install the patch.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

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