WPF MessageBox - Custom control

One feature I wanted in WPF applications is a good looking message box. But every time I call the MessageBox.Show() method in my apps, the old win forms style message box pops on my screen. Sad part is that the MessageBox class used in WPF goes directly into user32... which makes it impossible to extend the message box and apply some style to make it look more WPF way.

I decided to create a custom message box that looks better than the Win32 one and use in my WPF applications. Special thanks to Christian Moser for the sample to remove the title icon from a WPF window, which I have shamelessly copied in my implementation. The final output is as in the figure.

 

You can call the WPFMessageBox.Show method as:

__Result = WPFMessageBox.Show("WPF MessageBox", "This options displays a message box with YES, NO, CANCEL option!!!", WPFMessageBoxButtons.YesNoCancel, WPFMessageBoxImage.Question);

Implementation:

public static WPFMessageBoxResult Show(string title, string message, WPFMessageBoxButtons buttonOption, WPFMessageBoxImage image)

{

    ___MessageBox = new WPFMessageBox();

    MessageBoxViewModel __ViewModel = new MessageBoxViewModel(___MessageBox, title, message, buttonOption, image);

    ___MessageBox.DataContext = __ViewModel;

    ___MessageBox.ShowDialog();

    return ___MessageBox.Result;

}

 <Image Source="{Binding MessageImageSource}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="48" Width="48" Margin="10 0 0 0" />

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Message}" Grid.RowSpan="2" Grid.Column="1" TextWrapping="Wrap" TextAlignment="Left" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="10 10 10 10" />

<StackPanel Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1" Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0 0 5 0">           

     <Button Content="_Yes" Visibility="{Binding YesNoVisibility}" Command="{Binding YesCommand}" Margin="5 5 5 5" Height="24" Width="80" />

     <Button Content="_No" Visibility="{Binding YesNoVisibility}" Command="{Binding NoCommand}" Margin="5 5 5 5" Height="24" Width="80" />

     <Button Content="_Cancel" Visibility="{Binding CancelVisibility}" Command="{Binding CancelCommand}" Margin="5 5 5 5" Height="24" Width="80" />

     <Button Content="O_K" Visibility="{Binding OkVisibility}" Command="{Binding OkCommand}" Margin="5 5 5 5" Height="24" Width="80" />

     <Button Content="_Close" Visibility="{Binding CloseVisibility}" Command="{Binding CloseCommand}" Margin="5 5 5 5" Height="24" Width="80" />

StackPanel>

I have uploaded the source code to codeplex. You can get it from here
http://prajeeshprathap.codeplex.com/SourceControl/PatchList.aspx