Custome control from DateTime format string

[gregcm]

I've got a custom control that is trying to allow the user to enter a
DateTime in a definable format and I was wondering if there was an
easy way to alter the look of said control based on the contents of
the format string. For example I would like a year TextBox that is
small if input formatting string contains "yy" and larger if it
contains "yyyy".
I guess I could write a parser with string.Contains et. al. but that
seems fairly kludgy, any ideas?

[christery]

For dates isnt there a calender (graphical) to use...

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I've got a custom control that is trying to allow the user to enter a
DateTime in a definable format and I was wondering if there was an
easy way to alter the look of said control based on the contents of
the format string. For example I would like a year TextBox that is
small if input formatting string contains "yy" and larger if it
contains "yyyy".
I guess I could write a parser with string.Contains et. al. but that
seems fairly kludgy, any ideas?

Use DateTimePicker dtp; with dtp.Format=DateTimePickerFormat.Custom, and
dtp.CustomFormat="yy.MM.dd HH:mm" for example.

Believe me, you will never be able to trap all variants a user might try
to use in a TextBox.

Use dtp.Value.ToString("yy.MM.dd HH:mm") to get out whatever format you
want.

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Bjørn Brox

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

You need to give more details, is this a web or a win app?
Where you got your control from?
Do you have the source code (you are talking about modifying it after all)
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I've got a custom control that is trying to allow the user to enter a
DateTime in a definable format and I was wondering if there was an
easy way to alter the look of said control based on the contents of
the format string. For example I would like a year TextBox that is
small if input formatting string contains "yy" and larger if it
contains "yyyy".
I guess I could write a parser with string.Contains et. al. but that
seems fairly kludgy, any ideas?