[AccessD] VB.Net - seeing the messagebox

This is probably a silly question, but why bother with a popup window? Why
not just display the progress on the main form and/or status bar?

On 5/13/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> >You are using messagebox.show, right?
>
> Yes. It does show up if I click on the program icon representing the
> windows
> form for the VB.Net program, but it will not pop up over (for example)
> Outlook if I have that open or Firefox if I have that open.  It also does
> not cause the little icon in the toolbar to turn dark blue or flash as
> some
> other programs can cause their toolbar icon to do.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>