I needed to implement a dialog that could be used to stop from displaying over and over again. We've all seen countless variations on this theme. I also didn't want to go to the extent of using hooks to accomplish this.

I came across the SHMessageBoxCheck function, and it appears to give me what I need. Granted, it is far from perfect, but it works for me. I used the declaration from PInvoke.net, but I received a PInvokeStackImbalance exception from MDA. I modified the DllImport to use PreserveSig to true, and the error is gone. I did update the wiki to mention this finding, so hopefully others will be able to verify.

All in all, this function works well. But, by trying to be lazy and use a pre-existing solution, it definitely took longer than it would have had I written my own custom dialog. I'm sure that won't be the last time that happens.