message box in vb.net

Oops, correction:

window.open('You should enter more than one criteria');

should be

alert('You should enter more than one criteria');

Sorry about that.

John

Thanks jnhorst,
One more thing, please. Can you explane me why messagebox.show or msgbox don't work on my app.

In a Windows app, the base class for a form is System.Windows.Forms.  This is the namespace that has the MessageBox class that you use in VB.NET for Windows apps.  It in turn interacts with the Windows operating system to draw the message box with the message, icon and button you specify.  In a windows app, you always know you have a windows OS under the hood.

But with an ASP.NET app, the System.Web.UI namespace has a Page class that the web form inherits.  The Page class does not interact with the Windows OS to draw the box.  It's purpose is to configure HTML for IIS to send to the browser.  Where with VB.NET for windows you know your undelrying OS is going to be windows, with an ASP.NET app and a browser for the client, it may be on a unix box, a mac, or Linux, or who knows what.  So the only thing you know is that you will have a client capable of rendering HTML, and with some variations, capable of executing JavaScript.  And for security reasons, you also know the browser is not going to expose the underlying OS of the client's machine for you send the instructions ncessary to show a message box.

So if you want the browser to show a message box, you can be reasonable sure that the client's version of JavaScript will know how to respond to the alert() function.  But you have to tell the Page class to stream that function to the browser (RegisterStartupScript() is provided for just that purpose).  The way the browser knows you are sending it a JavaScript command is to have it embedded in the <script></script> tag as my initial response shows.

Remember two things:  1) Everything you put in an ASP.NET page that is an xml definition of a server control (like <asp:TextBox></asp:TextBox>), rather than regular HTML, is just a placeholder.  When a browser requests and aspx page, IIS has a runtime that receives that request.  When it sees <asp:TextBox...>, the runtime knows to instantiate the TextBox class of the System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace.  That class then tells the runtime what HTML to replace the <asp:Textbox...> tag with.  And 2) Think of the client browser as the OS.  With VB.NET for windows, windows is the OS and has various functionality to make interaction with the user possible.  With VB.NET "behind" and aspx page, it is the client browser that has that functionality.  If you want the user to put data in, then the TextBox class tells the runtime to send an <input type="text"...> tag.  If you want to show a message to the user, you either have to the JavaScript alert() function, or have a Label control that will send a <span...> tag with your message string.  Just think of the client browser as the "OS" of sorts.

John