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I want to display messagebox with buttons whose name can be passed as parameter and return a value to the calling function respective to the button clicked
e.g. I want two buttons to be displayed as Ok and Cancel, when user clicks Ok, I want to return 0 and 1 for cancel to the calling function.
In another case, instead of Ok-Cancel, I want to pass Yes,No,Cancel as button names and return value as 0,1,2 respectively.
Is this possible in Window Forms application?

What I have tried:

I have created another form, added buttons to the form as Ok/Cancel/Yes/No/Retry/Ignore each button have its event handler and respective code for that event handler.
But I can't use single button in multiple places as it has single event handler.
Example: Form A calling this custom message box to display Yes and No. Upon Yes email will be sent, upon "No" nothing will happen. In another case, i.e. Form B calling same custom message box to use buttons Yes and No, but this Form B want to insert data into DB upon Yes button click. I.e. Different features will consume these buttons to perform different operations, which is not achieved with what I have tried.
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Updated 10-Mar-17 8:13am

"Is this possible in Window Forms application?" - Yes. There are several articles here on CodeProject that may give you some ideas - Search[^]
As to the multiple event handlers - it is the calling module that knows what to do depending on which button is pressed. The custom message box should just tell you *which* button was pressed
 
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Basicly it is like CHill has answered in his Solution.
You can create your own MessageBox - that is not very complicated.
But ... normally the action doesn't comes from the MessageBox. Normally the Buttons on the MessageBox-Form set a DialogResult-Value which is evaluated from that point where the MessageBox is called (for example somewhere from your Form) and after it is called. So normally the MessageBox gives a Feedback like the DialogResult-Enumation (which really are Integer-Values - but defined ones).
 
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