VB .net program

Polonious

Hi,

I'm having a problem whereby all messageboxes in my VB.net application
are not showing the text. So when the event happens, the msgbox comes
up, but there is no text or no icon. There is even no text on the
button????

Anyone ever see this before???

Cheers...

jessy

If this is a system msg Box then you might need a reinstall. check the "common files" folder to see if any icons are still there.

Polonious

I've just checked, and actually the icons are appearing, it's just the text that is missing... See attachment...

jessy

check if fonts required are missing.

Polonious

Yep it's there alright, (MS Sans Serif). It's a strange one. It works fine in college, but not here in work.

jessy

Can’t Remember in VB if you can set the colour in system Msg. you might have it set to the same colour as the background.

Evil Phil

Post your code.

Polonious

Here we go, just a simple Message box:

Private Sub btnYes_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnYes.Click

MessageBox.Show("Request has been processed...", "HR Department", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information)

End Sub

jessy

did you try to create a new project, with just this code to see if its a comipler error? every so offen MS compilers do somthing weird. last year i wrote a very small program in Visual C++ and it wouldnt compile. the code was perfect so i copied and pasted it into a new project and it comipled fine.

Polonious

Yep, I've tried that too, still same problem. I've also tried running it from the .exe and it looks the same too. It's wrecking my head, I just don't understand. I've reinstalled VB.net too, still no joy.

krinpit

If the same project runs OK on another machine, I would suggest that it is not a compiler problem.

More likely, it is a .NET Framework issue. Try reinstalling the .NET Framework

Also, change the Appearance Settings in your PC's Display Properties. I have seen cases where message boxes have appeared as all black, because the display properties got changed horribly :eek:

jessy

krinpit wrote:

If the same project runs OK on another machine, I would suggest that it is not a compiler problem.

To me this would suggest that it is a IDE problem.(machine specific, nothing to do with his code).

krinpit

jessy wrote:

To me this would suggest that it is a IDE problem.(machine specific, nothing to do with his code).

I guess the best way to test that would be to create a SETUP project and try to install the application on another machine

You're up late

Polonious

Have tried all of the above (.net frwrk version 2.0) and it's still the same. The only thing I haven't tries is creating a setup program. I don't seem to have that option cos it's "Standard" edition. But the .exe file it create's in the bin folder after a build, has the same problem.

Evil Phil

Version 2.0 is a beta release isn't it? Perhaps you've found a bug.

Polonious

Na, it was happening before I installed version 2..

Polonious

For anybody who is interested, the problem was with McAfee. I run McAfee Viruscan ver 8.0i and I had to disable "Buffer Overflow Protection" in order for the message boxes to work correctly.

krinpit

Obviously

miseme

ermm.. how did you come up with that solution? scuse my ignorance and all.. but how did this cause your prob

Polonious

The answer was on another site like this one dedicated to .net. Reason it causes a problem - Dunno!!! Some new feature of McAfee that blocks a hole in MS products and as a result affects message boxes and combo boxes aparently!!! I'm just glad to have it sorted to be honest!

jessy

How did you figure it Polonious? it aint exactly obvious.

Polonious

Hours of trawling google and putting up posts on other sites. THe answer finally came from here...

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1045148#post1045148