EditFormatSpecifier Property

Gets or sets the format specifier that will be used to edit the date picker's Value.

Syntax

Visual Basic
C#

'Declaration
 
<CategoryAttribute("Appearance")>
<DescriptionAttribute("The format specifier that will be used to edit the date picker's Value.")>
<TypeConverterAttribute("Xceed.Editors.Design.DateFormatSpecifierConverter,Xceed.Editors.v2.6.Design,Version=2.6.20076.12375,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=ba83ff368b7563c6")>
<LocalizableAttribute(True)>
<DefaultValueAttribute("")>
Public Property EditFormatSpecifier As String

'Usage
 
Dim instance As WinDatePicker
Dim value As String
 
instance.EditFormatSpecifier = value
 
value = instance.EditFormatSpecifier

[Category("Appearance")]
[Description("The format specifier that will be used to edit the date picker's Value.")]
[TypeConverter("Xceed.Editors.Design.DateFormatSpecifierConverter,Xceed.Editors.v2.6.Design,Version=2.6.20076.12375,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=ba83ff368b7563c6")]
[Localizable(true)]
[DefaultValue("")]
public string EditFormatSpecifier {get; set;}

Property Value

A string representing the format specifier that will be used to edit the date picker's Value.

Remarks

The list of values that can be passed to the EditFormatSpecifier property can be found in the "DisplayFormat Specifiers and DisplayFormat Providers" topic of the .NET Framework.

The edit format specifier can differ from the DisplayFormatSpecifier.

Example

The following examples demonstrate how to set the EditFormatSpecifier property.

VisualBasic

' Short date
winDatePicker1.EditFormatSpecifier = "d"

' Long date
winDatePicker1.EditFormatSpecifier = "D"
    
' Custom format (single quotes will be used as literals )  
winDatePicker1.EditFormatSpecifier = "'Year' yyyy 'Month' MM 'Day' dd"

// Short date
winDatePicker1.EditFormatSpecifier = "d";

// Long date
winDatePicker1.EditFormatSpecifier = "D";

// Custom format (single quotes will be used as literals )
winDatePicker1.EditFormatSpecifier = "'Year' yyyy 'Month' MM 'Day' dd";

Requirements

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

Reference

WinDatePicker Class
WinDatePicker Members