[Curtis Rutland]

I'm thinking we could easily use Tasks to create an async dialog, and that would allow for easy continuation. There could be a ShowAsync method that would return the Task it created to show itself. That way, we could do something like this (it's C#, but the concept's the same):

UltimateDialog.ShowAsync().ContinueWith(t => Debug.Write("returned"), guiTaskScheduler);

Or we could use a callback delegate as the parameter for ShowAsync, with another parameter being a TaskScheduler.

I suggest tasks rather than async, because that's part of the current released version, rather than a CTP.

We could provide a custom message, and a custom button list, and a custom DialogResult. We could even enable input, and even allow for a watermark.

This would be an interesting little project. Github would be a nice place for it.

[smohd]

And if we have good WPF and Silverlight guys adding with .NET experts, it will be cool .......
I like the concept

[dawmail333]

I'll start the WPF one then.

[AdamSpeight2008]

You can submit your alternative to the Challenge: MessageBox

[AdamSpeight2008]

Curtis Rutland, on 13 October 2011 - 06:05 AM, said:

I suggest tasks rather than async, because that's part of the current released version, rather than a CTP.

The Async & Await keywords are available in the VS11 Developer Preview. So I'll allow it to be used in the challenge. One a way they can be used is if the function return a Task(Of T). The async feature make it a lot easier to write asynchronous methods.

This post has been edited by AdamSpeight2008: 13 October 2011 - 02:55 PM