Hi all,

I am trying to set my custom date format like dd-MMM-yyyy to datepicker control in silverlight 2 beta 2.

I have tried as following way:

datepicker.SelectedDate = DateTime.Today;

datepicker.Text =  datepicker.SelectedDate.Value.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy");

on load event of it. But fail to get current date in formate like 13-Nov-2008.

I need help here..

Thanks

Pratik 

as silverlight 2 is unsuported in all beta editions i suggest you to change to RTW bits and then take the toolkit http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight

Source code is included

-Hannes

http://www.preishuber.net http://weblogs.asp.net/hpreishuber

Hi Pratik ,

We have a test on our labs with the silverlight RTW.

private void picker_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)// the datapicker's load event.
        {
            this.picker.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy");
        }

        private void picker_SelectedDateChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            this.picker.Text = this.picker.SelectedDate.Value.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy");
        }

If you add the code:  this.picker.Text = this.picker.SelectedDate.Value.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy"); to the datapicker;s SelectedDateChanged event, you can get the correct date formate in the load event.

Amanda Wang
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Hi Amanda,

I hope they add a custom formatter property to the DatePicker other than just (Long, Short)

I was not able to use the SelectedDateChanged for formatting because Editing causes changes before Editing is completed.   I tried LostFocus but it continuously looped during my test.   I think it may be a known issue with LostFocus.

Thanks,

John

John

 Hi kent,

Hi,

You can try to add the namespace using System.Globalization; using System.Threading; in the app.xaml.cs file, and add below two lines code in the Application_Startup event:

  Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-GB");
   Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = "dd-MMM-yyyy";

 for example:

Amanda Wang
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Hi Amanda,

I'm running Silverlight 2.0 and my machine's regional setting date format is set to M/dd/yyyy, when I run the following code, it returns the correct format in Silverlight as I specify.

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-us");

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = "dd-MMM-yyyy";

 However, when I change my machine's regional setting date format to M-dd-yyyy and run the following code, it does not returns the correct format as I specify.

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-us");

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = "dd/MMM/yyyy";

Instead, it returns 09-Mar-2009 and looks like it still use the Date Separator from regional settings.  Did I do anything wrong here?  Or is it a bug in Silverlight 2.0?

Thanks

David

I've found the answer why setting the ShortDatePattern = "dd/MMM/yyyy" does not work.  It turns out that it needs to have the escape character "\" the for slash "/" in the format string.  Once I change to the following, it works

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = "dd\/MMM\/yyyy";

 Thanks

David