WPF DateTimePicker (DateTimeEdit) Overview

18 Oct 20221 minute to read

The DateTimeEdit allows you to quickly navigate and select dates using months, years, and decades of calendar. The DateTimeEdit comprises text box and a dropdown with calendar and clock to pick or edit a date with time. It supports data binding, null value, maximum and minimum dates, date validation, watermark, culture and much more. It also provides flexible options for displaying the date-time according to the format required, as well as many customization options to enhance its appearance.

Key features

• Editing mode - Supports the default text editing and mask mode that helps to restrict the date input in formatted values based on pre-defined or custom date-time pattern.

• Date-range support - Supports the maximum and minimum dates in order to prevent users from setting a date or time within a given range.

• Globalization - Supports different date-time formats and patterns based on cultures.

• Date validation - Supports date validation when date range constraints are met.

• Accessibility - Provides touch, keyboard, and mouse support to make applications available to a wide variety of users.

• Watermark - Supports to display watermark text when a selected date is null.

• Styles - Provides a rich set of built-in themes and customizes the style of each part of DateTimeEdit.

• Testing - Provides QTP add-in that contains custom libraries, which helps QTP to recognize DateTimeEdit.