Easy Question.....VERY NEWBIE HERE! 1

[smeeks]

I am trying to do a "Hello World" in C#....when I open a blank project.....put a button on the form....and under the click event I am typing in Messagebox.Show. First of all intellisense doesn't recognize it and when I build I get the following error:

The type or namespace name 'messagebox' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

I searched for this error on the Internet but didn't have much luck so I assume I am an idiot!

Is there something I need to do when I start a new C# project? This seemed very very basic to me.

thanks,

C# Very Newbie

 

[sacheson]

C# is case sensitive. Are you typing it in all lower case?

Also, make sure you have the "using System.Windows.Forms;" declared in your coding page. It should already be there if you created a windows forms project, but just make sure.

I'm almost willing to bet it's a case sensitivity issue, though.

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[uscboy]

hi
As Sacheson said C# is case sensitive. To use a MessageBox Class and the Show method, All you need to do is declare your box as:


MessageBox.Show("Hello World");

Hope it works.

- Another C# Newbie

 

[smeeks]

Yep. I have been using VB for so long and I have only used C on a unix system....so since I was using the .NET IDE I just assumed it would act the same as VB....but guess not. That was my problem though...I was typing it in lower case.

thx.