ASP.NET MVC Chat (Conversational UI)

The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat delivers a modern, flexible conversational interface designed to elevate user engagement in your web applications. It enables seamless, real-time communication and comes packed with advanced capabilities, including an AI-powered conversation mode, built-in speech-to-text, file and media attachments, and predefined quick action buttons that streamline user interactions.

Whether you’re building a customer support chatbot, a live help desk, a virtual booking assistant, or an interactive FAQ system, the Chat component empowers you to create intuitive, human-like conversations that keep users connected and engaged.

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The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat seamlessly integrates with AI Completion Services, making it easier than ever to enable smooth, two-way communication between users and large language models (LLMs). This integration helps you deliver more intelligent, and efficient conversational experiences right inside your ASP.NET MVC applications.

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Build interactive person-to-bot conversations with the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat. It includes key features such as “quick reply” suggestions for faster user interactions, styled links for seamless navigation, and flexible file upload capabilities supporting both single and multiple attachments.

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The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat offers flexible local and remote data binding, giving you full control over how messages are loaded and managed. You can easily connect the Chat to a local data collection or bind it to a remote endpoint that delivers data in JSON or JSONP format.

With the built-in Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC DataSource acting as a powerful mediator, the component ensures smooth communication between your application and the underlying data source.

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Customize the header of the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat to add interactive elements that elevate the user experience. You can easily integrate actions such as exporting the complete chat history to a text file or giving users the option to clear an existing conversation.

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The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat supports rendering chart visualizations directly within messages, enabling data-driven and AI-powered conversational experiences. By integrating Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Charts such as Line, Column, or Pie, the component allows dynamic visualization of data as part of responses. This makes it easier to present insights inline and supports scenarios where users can generate and export charts, for example as PDF files, directly from the chat interface.

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The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat also supports rendering Markdown content within messages, enabling formatted text, tables, and code snippets with syntax highlighting. This allows responses to be presented in a structured and readable way, especially in developer or data-focused scenarios.

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The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat provides built-in suggestion systems to enhance user interaction through quick response options. It supports both Message Suggestions and Suggested Actions, which surface contextually relevant replies and reduce the need for manual typing.

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Customize the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat using templates to control the rendering of key elements within the component. Templates allow you to define the appearance and behavior of messages, file attachments, suggestions, and other UI parts, making it easy to align the Chat with your application’s design and interaction requirements.

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Load older messages on demand with endless scrolling in the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat. As users scroll up through the conversation history, additional messages are fetched and rendered dynamically, enabling efficient handling of large conversations without impacting initial load performance.

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The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat supports adornments templates that allow you to customize the message input area with additional actions and contextual elements. The Start Affix Template lets you place custom UI before the built-in attachment control, while the End Affix Template adds actions alongside the built-in speech-to-text and send buttons. Additionally, the Top Affix Template enables displaying contextual information, such as a model label, above the input area when using multi-line mode.

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Control how new messages affect the scroll position with the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat autoScrollThreshold configuration option. When the user is within the defined threshold from the bottom, incoming messages automatically remain in view to support real-time conversations. If the user scrolls further away, the Chat preserves their position and displays a scroll-to-bottom action, ensuring uninterrupted reading of earlier messages.

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Enable richer communication in the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat with built-in media capabilities, including file attachments and speech-to-text input. Allow users to upload and send files directly within messages, as well as download, preview, or delete them. Additionally, the integrated speech-to-text functionality adds a microphone button to the input area, allowing users to compose messages using voice.

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The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat supports a variety of events that let you deliver fluent experience and smooth interactions. Developers can easily handle actions such as sending messages, managing file options, downloading content, and more.

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The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat supports both left-to-right and right-to-left language input, ensuring accurate rendering across a wide range of languages, including Hebrew, Chinese, and Arabic. This flexibility makes it easier to build truly global applications.

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Enable seamless accessibility with the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Chat, which includes built-in keyboard navigation. Users can effortlessly interact with the component using only their keyboard, ensuring a smooth and inclusive experience.

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