How to make the message disappear after 3 seconds?

Question

I have a confirmation screen in my application where I tell the user that his item has been saved successfully. He can click “OK” and the message will go, but if he does not, how can I turn off the message box after 3 seconds if there is no answer?

Answer 1

According to MSDN, it is impossible to close the message window without a user action (no method is provided for this action) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.messagebox_methods(v=vs.95).aspx

Answer 2

If your message box does not require user action, use Toast Prompt from the Coding4Fun toolkit.

http://coding4fun.codeplex.com/