Using MessageBox.Show and the default caption

Question

Hi
I have a maintenance issue that I am not sure of how to resolve. The documents state that you can omit the caption parameter and it will use the application name. For starters, I am finding that it remains empty on the popup message.
Since I am wanting to specify buttons and icons for the popup message I am having to manually provide my application name everywhere.
How can I get it to just use my application name without me passing literal strings?
This is VS 2013, Form based application.
Thanks.
Andrew

Answer 1

The documentation states:
"To display a message box, call the static method MessageBox.Show.
The title, message, buttons, and icons displayed in the message box are determined by parameters that you pass to this method."
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.messagebox%28v=vs.110%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Either you're not doing windows forms or you've read the wrong documentation.
The actual name of an assembly is often not really what the users want to see so I would go with MDeero's suggestion.  But with a couple of minor modifications:
public static class CustomMessageBox
public static void Show(String messsage, MessageBoxButton buttons)
MessageBox.Show(message, "staticNameHere", buttons);
 I would also consider making several overloads for that, so for example
public static class CustomMessageBox
private static string FriendlyAppName = "SuperDooper Application";
public static void Show(String msg, MessageBoxButtons buttons)
MessageBox.Show(msg, FriendlyAppName, buttons);
public static void Show(String msg, MessageBoxButtons buttons)
MessageBox.Show(msg, FriendlyAppName, buttons);
public static void Show(String msg)
MessageBox.Show(msg, FriendlyAppName);
There are 21 overloads to show.
Hope that helps.
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