How to use overloads in a custom messagebox (myMSGBOX.SHOW(overloads)

Question

I have created my own messagebox window which is working however this is how I currently use it:

var msgbox = new msgbox("Please confirm patients phone number with them before proceeding");
msgbox.ShowDialog();

I want to be able to use it this way:

MessageBox.Show("Choose an Estimated Time of Arrival");

This is first of all so i can just replaceAll MessageBox with msgbox. I have lots in my application and now that I have my own custom messagebox it will be so much easier to replace this way rather than replacing with the first set of code.

The issue is I can't figure out how to have the overloads in the showDialog section?

Answer 1

There is probably more than one solution but I would create a new MyMessageBox class with Show method and I would create msgbox inside this method.

public sealed class MyMessageBox
{
    public static bool? Show(string messageBoxText)
    {
        var msgbox = new msgbox(messageBoxText);
        return msgbox.ShowDialog();
    }
}

Then just replace all MessageBox with MyMessageBox.

System.Windows.MessageBox.Show returns MessageBoxResult, so you can create Show method that returns also MessageBoxResult.

public sealed class MyMessageBox
{
    public static MessageBoxResult Show(string messageBoxText)
    {
        var msgbox = new msgbox(messageBoxText);
        msgbox.ShowDialog();
        return MessageBoxResult.OK;
    }
}