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Get new Messagebox style - WPF

I am currently working on a Windows Presentation Foundation app and I need to make use of Message boxes. I want to get few information from user inside Message Box popup.
But they appear always like this:
But I think the actual look of it should be like that:
Does anybody know, why this is, and how to solve it? I tried all everything listed
here
, but nothing worked.

I agree with Keithernet, build your own. Its more of an Input Dialog box. You may want to plan it to create a window, create it with ex: 4 parameters which you could override so you can apply them in the form including
The title,
The prompt you want the user to fill in
optional default button 1 text
optional default button 2 text.
have the input value stored into a public property in the window for the text to be bound to during entry.
If the user clicks the cancel button (or similar), clear the text entry and close the window. If ok button, just close the window.
Then, when you call it with a YourWindow.ShowDialog(), upon return, you can look at the public property for that input text value.
You could even do with a property / flag if the user cancelled directly or not. I have done similar in a couple of my WPF apps.

MessageBox is very limited. Based on your screenshot, you should just create your own child Window with your own XAML so you can get the user input.

You can find sample service implementations/NuGets for this on GitHub. Here is one I've created sometime ago: https://github.com/Dirkster99/MsgBox
Just create your own is an oversimplifying statement in my opinion because this is usually a dialog that you want to show in different parts of the application. Therefore, you have to settle for a software design pattern (I chose a service implementation as suggested here).
Likewise, there are other design decisions that should be taken. I have for instance made sure that the API has a compatible subset of Show API calls with the standard .Net MessageBox to make its application as flexible as possible. I also settled for light and dark themes hoping this will make its application easy in any other theme...

C# Setting Button URL Direct At Runtime

I have a program I created which amongst other things has 20+ buttons which link to various sites and programs I use for work. The program has started being used by other people and the buttons don't quite meet their need.
What I would like to do is allow the user to set the button up to direct to a specified URL at runtime, and maintain that information for future use (I'll work on that bit later) - Allowing every user to cater it to their own criteria.
To make this easier, the buttons already exist with a generic name, and no text, and are initially invisible. All of them when in use would direct to a particular URL, nothing else. I would like the user to be able to click an "Add" button, set the button Text, text colour (I can do this bit) and fill in a text box to set the url for the browser (Default browser, not webBrowser.), which they would save, making the button visible, and usable.
I've had a look around, but cannot for the life of me work out how to do this.
Some guidance on the issue would be fantastic
Thanks in advance
Anthony

You could accomplish this using a DataGridView with a DataGridViewButtonColumn.

Because I had a set number of available buttons, I was able to create them and hide them. Set it up so the user sets the variable that the Start.Process. is using for the url, as well as set the button text in real time.
They save this information in a text document that's stored in the programs home folder, and this is pulled back through when the program is re-opened. This will work well for my simple purposes.

Log activity outside application

Maybe again incorrect question but:
I am trying to create an application which will log each user mouse click while running in background.
I managed to log each mouse click type (using Hook) but then i got a problem.
I need not only to log each click, but also to know what has been pressed and where.
I need to log second information also that what kind of object is pressed inside some application (button or checkbox and in which panel if it does exist, also object name), but I don't need to know what are those objects supposed to do.
So, is it possible to do with global hook help or are there some libraries which can help to make that?
EDIT:
Found that it should be easied it wpf application but but there are more problems with - how to make it log each clicked object, not only inside created wpf.

Adding a context menu item to windows explorer

I've been searching for days about this, but haven't found anything.
I am trying to find out how I can add a context menu item to the windows explorer. I do not want it for specific filetypes, BUT I want it to appear on everything inside a specific path.
For example, I want right-click menus of anything inside "C:\folder" to contain this item, but it shouldn't appear outside this folder...
Is that possible?
Any help will be really appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
John.

The normal way this is achieved is to add it to the Registry under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/Folder/Shell
However in your specific case you want to do some preprocessing before it is displayed (eg is it in the specified directory) which wouldn't work with a simple registry alteration.
I think there is a way to force you way into any operation and add a hook to it. I'm talking about old school knowledge now though and I cannot think what the technology would be called. I think its how you would have, for example, forced your way into the rendering engine to put custom skins on normal explorer windows or inject an extra button into the title bar of apps like you used to see back in the day.
It just occurred to me that adding a button to the windows title bar might have given a search starting point, I found this article which refers to subclassing windows components and injecting your own behaviour. I think that is what I'm talking about above:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/wtl/titlebar.aspx
Hope this gives you a new direction to search in.

Checking for Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click in a Web User Control

I have a requirement to produce a Web User Control (in C#) which will exhibit different behaviour when clicked depending on whether the shift (or control) key is pressed at the time. The control itself will contain an ImageButton and/or Hyperlink.
Is this possible?
Basically, if the logged in user is an Admin then I need to allow them access to update the associated URL. I don't want to have a separate page for this admin as it will cause confusion.
Thanks in advance

How about here?
To implement the Ctrl / Alt / Shift detection, you can use the properties event.ctrlKey, event.altKey, event.shiftKey and the deprecated Navigator-specific property event.modifiers.

Your control needs to emit some javascript to detect what keys are being pressed when it is clicked on.
Here is a primer from w3schools on events, here is a list of events of the window object you can listen to (such as onkeydown for keyboard presses).

I'd discourage this as it will get you into serious trouble with different browser versions.
As long as you aren't targeting one browser explicitly you'll be doing maintenance work for various browsers all the time.
A way around this is to find a supported Javascript library like jQuery that supports this behavior and let the maintainers of that library care about browser compatibility (You still need to update that library then..)

Well the 'powers' have decided that the Shift/Ctrl + Click approach was too clunky.
After a brainstorming session we have decided to go down the route of displaying a small 'Edit' button next to the control. This will only be visible for Administrator users and I've pulled it together in about two hours.
Thanks for taking the time to provide your input.
Can someone with a high rep please close this question for me - thanks.