MessageBox in VC++ Windows Form

[jartman]

I'm trying to pop up a confirmation dialog box in a Windows Forms app, but I keep getting an error at compile time.

Here's the code snippet:

using namespace System::Windows::Forms;
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int Form1::myMethod(void)
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if (System::Windows::Forms::MessageBox::Show(msg,"Warning",System::Windows::Forms::MessageBoxButtons::OKCancel))
return 0;
}

The error message is:
error C2039: 'MessageBoxA' is not a member of 'System::Windows::Controls'
error C2660: System::Windows::Forms::Control::Show' : function does not take 3 arguments

Nowhere do I have a MessageBoxA, I assume this is somehow an alias of or referenced by the MessageBox definition?

Also being new to this platform, I wonder if there's just an include file or DLL that I'm missing?

This is VC++ in the visual studio 2003 environment, using a simple single-form window.

 

[OlafBogus]

The first error is most likely due to the type of variable msg is. Check you arn't mixing managed and unmanaged code.
The second is a result of the first. Try...

String^ msg("The Message"); string on the managed heap

if (MessageBox::Show(msg,"Warning",MessageBoxButtons::OKCancel) == System::Windows::Forms::DialogResult::Cancel)
return 0;

or similar.
This works for me in C++VS2005