.net input box

23 Mar 2006 9:57 PM

cj

What's the .net (2003) "replacement" for the input box function?

23 Mar 2006 11:29 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"cj" <cj@nospam.nospam> schrieb:
> What's the .net (2003) "replacement" for the input box function?

'Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox' ('InputBox').

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24 Mar 2006 1:19 PM

cj

That looks like the same thing as microsoft.visualbasic.inputbox

I thought microsoft.visualbasic were the old VB6 style commands and they
were considered outdated.

For that matter I don't import any namespaces but I can just say
inputbox and it works instead of having to say
microsoft.visualbasic.inputbox or visualbasic.inputbox.

I want to do things the vb2003 way and I understood inputbox was a
classic vb command so I wanted to know the new way of achieving this
functionality.

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:
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> "cj" <cj@nospam.nospam> schrieb:
>> What's the .net (2003) "replacement" for the input box function?
>
> 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox' ('InputBox').
>

24 Mar 2006 1:40 PM

Brian Henry

there really is none, you have to make your own

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"cj" <cj@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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> That looks like the same thing as microsoft.visualbasic.inputbox
>
> I thought microsoft.visualbasic were the old VB6 style commands and they
> were considered outdated.
>
> For that matter I don't import any namespaces but I can just say inputbox
> and it works instead of having to say microsoft.visualbasic.inputbox or
> visualbasic.inputbox.
>
> I want to do things the vb2003 way and I understood inputbox was a classic
> vb command so I wanted to know the new way of achieving this
> functionality.
>
>
> Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:
>> "cj" <cj@nospam.nospam> schrieb:
>>> What's the .net (2003) "replacement" for the input box function?
>>
>> 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox' ('InputBox').
>>

24 Mar 2006 2:27 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"cj" <cj@nospam.nospam> schrieb:
> That looks like the same thing as microsoft.visualbasic.inputbox
>
> I thought microsoft.visualbasic were the old VB6 style commands and they
> were considered outdated.

No, "Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll" is neither outdated nor obsolete or
deprecated. It's a first-class library for use with VB.NET. I think you
are mixing up "Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll" with
"Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.dll".

> I want to do things the vb2003 way and I understood inputbox was a classic
> vb command so I wanted to know the new way of achieving this
> functionality.

The .NET Framework's class library doesn't contain an equivalent function or
class. I suggest to use 'InputBox'.

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

24 Mar 2006 3:47 PM

cj

Your right. I was confusing it with .compatibility. Glad to hear
inputbox is still a perfectly acceptable way to do things.

Thanks for letting me know.

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:
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> "cj" <cj@nospam.nospam> schrieb:
>> That looks like the same thing as microsoft.visualbasic.inputbox
>>
>> I thought microsoft.visualbasic were the old VB6 style commands and
>> they were considered outdated.
>
> No, "Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll" is neither outdated nor obsolete or
> deprecated. It's a first-class library for use with VB.NET. I think
> you are mixing up "Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll" with
> "Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.dll".
>
>> I want to do things the vb2003 way and I understood inputbox was a
>> classic vb command so I wanted to know the new way of achieving this
>> functionality.
>
> The .NET Framework's class library doesn't contain an equivalent
> function or class. I suggest to use 'InputBox'.
>