Re: MessageBox questions

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From: Scott M. (s-mar_at_nospam.nospam)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:07:26 -0400

> What I cannot figure out is: Why the heck aren't functions
> like this in the library, instead of making people deal with the
> script? I suppose it is not big deal to anyone who has been using
> jscript for a while, but to someone like me who's only experience with
> script was from AWK about a hundred years ago - whew!

Because what you are attempting to do is a browser based solution, not a
.NET solution. .NET simply gives you a way to tap into the browser's
functionality.

You can't produce messageboxes in a web page from the server-side code of
.NET. Think about it a second, when the .NET code is processing, it is
processing on a web server. Since a messagebox requires user input and the
user can't interact with the code that runs on the server, it's left up to
the browser to provide the GUI.

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