Hi Herbert,

I have determined that in order to provide a custom message for the UltraValidators notification, you would need to explicitly provide a message box containing your custom message; effectively by-passing the default message box used by the UltraValidator.

I have attached a modified version of your sample sample which demonstrates a simplified version of this procedure in addition to the following link to our online documentation article where this information was sourced. Note that this article also details a more extensive version of this sample for validating multiple controls.

Please find the sample attached.

Hi Herbert,

I am revisiting this thread to see if you have any further questions regarding this behavior.

As for my previous approach, it may appear somewhat indirect, but this is required due to the nature of the UltraValidator’s notification. Essentially, you could modify the notification’s text by creating a new ValidationSettings instance and modify the text property that is extended from this instance. This approach; however, only makes sense if you are validating a single control while providing a custom error message, as if you did this for each control you would receive a discrete notification box for each instance.

Example:
Dim validationSettings1 = UltraValidator1.GetValidationSettings(UltraNumericEditor1)
        validationSettings1.IsRequired = True
        validationSettings1.ValidationTrigger = ValidationTrigger.Programmatic
        validationSettings1.NotificationSettings.Caption = "German Error Message"
        validationSettings1.NotificationSettings.Text = "Bitte Fehler korrigieren"
        validationSettings1.NotificationSettings.Action = NotificationAction.MessageBox

        UltraValidator1.Validate(UltraNumericEditor1)

By default, the notification for the UltraValidator will create a new string via the string builder class and if implemented with multiple control instances, you will get the initial portion of the string, (“Validation failed with the following error(s):”) in addition to an additional line and validation error for every control instance where the UltraValidator was implemented, where the validation failed.

Modification of the starting string instance in this case is not actually extended from the control and if that behavior is necessary, you would essentially need to create a custom dialog and handle building the notification string manually, as is outlined in the code sample from our online documentation, (I have included the link again, below for reference).