Text Message

Updated on Mar 26, 2026

The TextMessage class is intended to be used for sending a simple string type message. It exposes the following properties:

• Text—The Text property gets or sets the text that will be displayed in the TextMessage instance.
• Author—The Author property provides information about the author of the text message.
• Status—This property allows you to specify a status for the TextMessage instance.
• CreationDate—This property provides the ability to specify a DateTime object for the creation date of the text message.

In order to display a status for the message, the CreationDate property needs to be set as well.

Defining a TextMessage

C#

var textMessage = new TextMessage(this.currentAuthor, "Some text message", "sent", DateTime.Now);
textMessage.InlineViewModel.StatusVisibility = Visibility.Visible;

this.chat.AddMessage(textMessage);

RadChat with TextMessage