Visual Basic Concepts

Dialog Boxes

In Windows-based applications, dialog boxes are used to:

• Prompt the user for data needed by the application to continue.

• Display information to the user.

In Visual Basic, for example, you use the File Open dialog box to display existing projects. The About dialog box in Visual Basic is also an example of how you can use a dialog box to display information. When the user clicks the Help, About Visual Basic menu item on the menu bar, the About dialog box is displayed.

The following topics discuss dialog boxes:

• Modal and Modeless Dialog Boxes   A discussion of dialog box types.

• Using Predefined Dialog Boxes   Techniques for using message and input boxes.

• Using Forms as Custom Dialog Boxes   Creating your own dialog boxes.