The xamCheckEditor was designed for use in the embedded case (e.g. hosted in a field of the xamDataPresenter). With regards to the Text property, that is defined by the base ValueEditor class. The Text and Value properties are integrally linked; the Text is a string representation of the Value and the Value is an instance of the ValueType for the specified Text. So in the case of the xamCheckEditor the Text property is a string representation of its boolean state - it is not a label. Currently, since the editor was designed for embedded use, there is no property exposed that would serve to provide a label/content that would be adjacent to the check editor. You may want to submit a suggestion for adding this.