What we're going to do in this article is to create a Task Dialog with customizable texts and a hyperlink that opens your webpage using Process.
The application will look like this(its a localized Windows 7 by the way):
First of all, create a new windows forms application.
Then add these references:
Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.dll
which can be found on your extracted archive after you downloaded it:
..\Windows API Code Pack 1.1\Windows API Code Pack 1.1\binaries\Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.dll
After that create a
TaskDialogCommandLink variable:
- TaskDialogCommandLink link = null;
This will help us to access it from another event to open your website.
Now let's keep going...
Create a TaskDialog variable
- TaskDialog dia = new TaskDialog();
This is the Dialog Window we wish to create. Here we created it actually
Let's play with its properties by adding more functionality to it:
- dia.Cancelable = true;
- dia.InstructionText = "Friend Request";
- dia.StandardButtons = TaskDialogStandardButtons.Yes | TaskDialogStandardButtons.No;
Cancelable means we can close/cancel the dialog if we want.
InstructionText is the above text inside the dialog. You can give it a general name like Friend Request, Mail Sent, Password Changed, and goes on...
StandardButtons are as you can see, added two of them;
Now lets play with CommandLink:
- link = new TaskDialogCommandLink("http://www.iersoy.com","Anonymous just added you as Friend in Facebook!","Do you accept?");
- link.UseElevationIcon = true;
- link.Enabled = true;
- link.Click+=new EventHandler(link_Click);
Here we created a Hyperlink alike structure that uses the Elevation icon and raised an event when clicked on it
- public void link_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
- {
- Process.Start(link.Name);
- }
as I told you before we created commandlink to access an event. That event is this Click event. We access links' names to view them on a web browser. I added my own blog, you can change it later, depends on you.
And lets finalize this application:
- dia.Controls.Add(link);
- dia.DetailsExpanded = false;
- dia.DetailsExpandedText = "Annonymous is a world-wide hacktivist group";
- dia.ExpansionMode = TaskDialogExpandedDetailsLocation.ExpandFooter;
- dia.Caption = "Information!";
- dia.Show();
We're adding this link to Task Dialog so that we can see it. We also assign false to DetailsExpanded to make it look like real windows 7 Task Dialogs. And we're adding some text regarding information about Anonymous.it displays when you expand the detail icon
And finally, we show it to the user:
Run and you'll see a similar effective shown as a screenshot above
Hope it helps, and you use it in your applications.