How do I not allow user to type into control but select date from control?

[Anthony Pieper]

I am currently setting the IsReadOnly property to true and this doesn't allow the user to type into the control, which is good, however it is not allowing the user to select a date within the control.

I want to limit the user to only select dates on the calendar AND not be able to type in a date.

Is there a property or properties to set to allow this behavior?

Thanks

[Boyan]

Hi Anthony Pieper,

This one is intended. However you can achieve the wanted scenario by editing the Control Template. Just edit in Blend and then find the where is the Calendar style and remove the IsReadOnly binding. In such way only the textbox will become ReadOnly and not the calendar.
I have attached a sample project . If you need more help please let me know.

All the best,
Boyan
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[Aeroth]

How do I achieve this programmatically because my DatePickers are created dynamically. There's no xaml file to edit...
Thanks !

[Kaloyan]

Hi Aeroth,

Put the style of the control as a resources in your app.xaml. Then in the declaration of the datepicker set the style as:

var radDatePicekr = new RadDatePicker { Style = this.Resources["RadDatePickerStyle1"] };

All the best,
Kaloyan
the Telerik team