Comment.Author Property

Specifies the comment’s author.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.API.Native

Assembly: DevExpress.RichEdit.v23.2.Core.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.RichEdit.Core, DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

C#

string Author { get; set; }

VB.NET

Property Author As String

Property Value

Type	Description
String	A String value, specifying the author of the comment.

Remarks

When a new comment is created, its default author is specified by the CommentOptions.Author property.

Example

View Example

CommentsActions.cs

Document document = server.Document;
document.LoadDocument("Documents\\Grimm.docx", DocumentFormat.OpenXml);
int commentCount = document.Comments.Count;
if (commentCount > 0)
{
    document.BeginUpdate();
    Comment comment = document.Comments[document.Comments.Count - 1];
    comment.Name = "New Name";
    comment.Date = DateTime.Now;
    comment.Author = "New Author";
    document.EndUpdate();
}

CommentsActions.vb

Dim document As Document = server.Document
document.LoadDocument("Documents\Grimm.docx", DocumentFormat.OpenXml)
Dim commentCount As Integer = document.Comments.Count
If commentCount > 0 Then
    document.BeginUpdate()
    Dim comment As Comment = document.Comments(document.Comments.Count - 1)
    comment.Name = "New Name"
    comment.Date = Date.Now
    comment.Author = "New Author"
    document.EndUpdate()
End If

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippets (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contain references to the Author property.

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C#

wpf-richedit-document-api/CS/DXRichEditControlAPISample/CodeExamples/CommentsActions.cs#L76

comment.Date = DateTime.Now;
comment.Author = "New Author";
document.EndUpdate();

word-document-api-examples/CS/CodeExamples/CommentsActions.cs#L100

comment.Date = DateTime.Now;
comment.Author = "New Author";

winforms-richedit-document-api/CS/RichEditAPISample/CodeExamples/Comments.cs#L53

comment.Date = DateTime.Now;
comment.Author = "New Author";
document.EndUpdate();

VB.NET

wpf-richedit-document-api/VB/DXRichEditControlAPISample/CodeExamples/CommentsActions.vb#L68

comment.Date = DateTime.Now
comment.Author = "New Author"
document.EndUpdate()

word-document-api-examples/VB/CodeExamples/CommentsActions.vb#L85

comment.[Date] = System.DateTime.Now
comment.Author = "New Author"
' Finalize to edit the document.

winforms-richedit-document-api/VB/RichEditAPISample/CodeExamples/Comments.vb#L48

comment.[Date] = System.DateTime.Now
comment.Author = "New Author"
document.EndUpdate()