I tried the chapter 1 sample and could not get it to work, even with the code downloaded from this site. The message box when displayed has "HelloUser Message" in the title bar, but there is no text in the messagebox and no text on the ok button. Any ideas?

I tried the code and it works fine for me. Could you post the code from your form so I can have a look at it.

Thearon

It is the file from the download, unmodified in any way.

MessageBox.Show("Hello, " & txtName.Text & _
"! Welcome to Visual Basic .NET.", _
"HelloUser Message")

I don't see anything wrong with the code. What version of the book did you download the code from and what version of Visual Studio are you running? Also, are you creating and running this project locally or on a mapped network drive?

Thearon

I downloaded the code from this site an hour or so ago for Beginning VB.NET, 2nd Edition (Beg_VB.NET_Code.zip). I have VS2003. I've tried running the exe straight from the Chapter01 bin directory and the project from within VS.

I think it's doing something weird like making the text the same color as the back ground. If I leave the input field for my name in the helloworld app blank, then the resulting messagebox is much narrower than if I completely fill the textbox with characters.

Also, I've tried several other project from the code and am getting the same behavior for other messageboxes.

Thanks for looking into this,
Will

UPDATE:

I just did a fresh install of VS2003 on a computer with a newly installed OS (XP) and am getting the same problem.

Are you customizing the desktop colors at all? Have you set a breakpoint (See Chapter 11 in Beginning VB.Net, 2nd Edition) on the line of code to see what is being generated? Finally, do any of the other samples run OK?

Other than that, I'm not sure I can help you any further without actually being there. I hope this helps.

Thearon

I dont' think it's a customization issue because I did a fresh install of VS on a machine that I had just reloaded the OS on. It has to be something local though because all the samples that utilize a message box are blank as well. I'll try the breakpoint.

Thanks for your suggestions.
Will

Having the same problem. Can't get text to display in messagebox or listbox? I have also reinstalled Visual Studio Dot Net so I have a fresh copy--still same problem. Have you found a solution to this yet?
Please post if you have or email me.
Thanks,
Captainshane

This turned out to be an antivirus issue. Please check with your vendor if disabling your antivirus software does not work.

Thearon