Create a custom theme starting from Aqua theme. Change the Font for RadLabelElement-TextPrimitive to "Microsoft Sans Serif, 10pt". Save the theme and apply it to the entire application. Show several times a RadMessageBox with long text. The first time the RadMessageBox is sized correcly to its content. Each next showing, cuts off the text. Workaround: the possible workaround that I can suggest is to dispose the RadMessageBox instance after showing it: Private Sub RadButton1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles RadButton1.Click RadMessageBox.Show(Me, "If you have some veeeeery long sample text, the messagebox " & _ "should be resized according to its content.", "Caption", MessageBoxButtons.OK, My.Resources.image) RadMessageBox.Instance.Dispose() End Sub