I have set two different cultures to the thread as:
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = "fi-FI"
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = "en-Us"
But the calender text is shown in Finnish culture.
I need to keep the Text(Translations) based on CurrentUICulture and Text Format based on CurrentCulture.
Can you please suggest how can it be done for it?
That is not possible. The Calendar control only reacts to the CurrentCulture value. CurrentUICulture is used by the ResourceManager to load up different strings, images etc. used in the UI, but that is not where the day/month names are stored. They are part of the .NET framework itself. To get the functionality you want you will have to write your own implementation of the DatePicker and/or TimePicker controls. Perhaps you could download the code for the Silverlight Toolkit and use that as a base for your own implementation. What you are looking for is basically a way of overriding the names of months and days manually. Maybe it is even possible to extend the controls and add that functionality on top, but I doubt it.
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I'm working on an old project that supports Windows Forms.
This project contains some ResourceManager for the support of a few localizations. The idea is that you call ResourceManager["SomeResource"] instead of Resource.SomeResource and it returns you a localized string.
And these localized strings are used in the code of the initialization of the form. For example, you have Form1, and in Form1.Design.cs there is some code like this:
Label label1 = new Label();
label1.Text = ResourceManager["SomeResource"];
So the label will be created with an already localized string in the Text.
And we need to add the functionality of changing the UI language without reloading the Form.
We can just set the every Text property of every controls again. But it's a lot of code, the form contains a lot of controls.
We can call the Form.InitializeComponents(), this method will recreate all controls with new localized strings, but in some cases, it works slowly because it reloads some big data again.
Is there some other way to refresh all UI controls and get the new localized strings? Do Windows Forms support some mechanism like Binding in the WPF to create the "connection" between the Text properties and localized resources?
I think that you can achieve this by use of Invalidate() either on the form itself or on a container control that your other controls may be encompassed by.
I would like users to have an ability to type in dates in datepicker control. The two formats allowed are MMDDYYYY or MMDDYY, by default it is not possible to do it without slash
Dealing with this myself. Decided I wanted more of a "maskedtextbox" serving as my textbox versus the datepickertextbox. I had to include WPFToolkit for the maskedtextbox control. Then, I created a new class that inherits from Datepicker and added a few dependencyproperties. From there I created a resourcedictionary for the XAML of how to display this new custom date picker. You can build You'll lose the watermark but you gain a mask which I think is more user friendly.
You won't be able to accomplish what you are looking for without a custom control since Datepicker is tightly synced together where the selected Calendar date is an actual date and SelectedDate has to also be a date and the format MMDDYYYY isn't considered a date.
I managed to accomplish that easily with telerik's RadDatePicker. Setting AllowParsingWithoutSeparator="True" property resolved my issue. The other solution is to have a textbox with mask.
I have WPF DatePicker In My UserControl and I want to display date as MMM-DD format.
I am using MVVM Pattern.
Any One faced this issue.
There us a lot of topic about that whit more or less hacking of the control but may be you could try the DateTimePicker from the WPF Toolkit which has 2 properties 'Format' and 'FormatString'
Like it's describe in this another post.
Set Format=Custom
And FormatString="youre custom format" like "dd::MMM::yyyy hh-mm-ss" or what ever you need
I am building a silverlight 4 application and the user wants to have a autocompelte feature for
date controls. ( Note I am using the DatePicker). For e.g. when the user types 5 and tabs out
the date should be converted to 5'th of sept 2012 becuase 5'th august has gone past. I also have
some other rules that are in place for this date formation. I planned to write some code
for this one in the KeyUp event but I am unable to get the text that the user has entered in the
datepicker. Also TextInputStart and TextInputUpdate are never called in my case.
I am looking for the correct event in which I can get what the user has entered
Thanks
Amol
I had a similar problem once with the DatePicker of the Silverlight Toolkit. The only way I could solve that was to create a new UserControl using a standard TextBox and a DatePicker. I re-styled the DatePicker so that its default text area remained hidden, and replaced it by the standard TextBox.
I wired the DatePicker's SelectedDate-Property to the Text-Property of the TextBox, so that it would get updated once someone picks a date.
In your case you could use the AutoCompleteBox coming with the Toolkit instead of a standard TextBox and then use some clever logic to prefill the list of auto-complete proposals. Thus your control would look like a standard DatePicker, and mostly behave like one, but would provide a mixed functionality of DatePicker, TextBox and AutoCompleteBox.
I'm getting some very strange date formatting issues in my Silverlight application. My local culture is set to UK, yet I am consistently seeing US dates popping up all over the place. I can easily hardcode these to UK format in specific loactions using:
<UserControl ... Language="en-GB"...>
But as I'm sure you'd all agree this is a terrible thing to do.
I have tried setting the Lanaguage to en-GB in the main application and this has partial success. I have also tried Justin Angels suggestion (posted here: How to change date format in Silverlight DatePicker control?), again only partial success.
An example of the issue can be seen here:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/%5FL9TmtwXFtew/Sw5aVZJfG1I/AAAAAAAAGkI/6jYnsB91HjI/image%5Fthumb%5B1%5D.png http://lh3.ggpht.com/%5FL9TmtwXFtew/Sw5aVZJfG1I/AAAAAAAAGkI/6jYnsB91HjI/image%5Fthumb%5B1%5D.png
The datagrid on the parent page shows UK formatting, whilst the information in the ChildWindow shows US formatting ...grrrr
Anyone have a definitive solution for solving this across a whole application?
Thanks,
Mark
You can data bind Language property of the root visual element. Take a look at my question here:
How to switch UI Culture of data binding on the fly in Silverlight
Can you not use the SelectedDateFormat property of the datepicker? If you want to do this once could you not create your own usercontrol that derives from the original with this value preset, then use your derived control throughout your app?
Kindness,
Dan
Shot in the dark, but does changing the browser's Language Preference make a differnence? I.e. in IE Tools-->Internet Options-->Languages.
HTH
Mark
You can set the date format for your entire application in the application start up event as follows.This will override any regional settings on the users machine
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = (CultureInfo)Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Clone();
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = dd/MM/yyyy";