RadDatePicker - Need to Format Date

[Top Gun]

When the user selects a date in the RadDatePicker, I need the date to be displayed as dd/MM/yyyy.  How can I get this format, dd/MM/yyyy, to be displayed in the control?

my xaml

<telerik:RadDatePicker Name="myDatePicker" InputMode="DatePicker" Height="30" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />

[Dani]

Hello Amrit,

Please, check this online help article on the topic of formatting in the RadDateTimePicker control(RadDateTimePicker with InputMode="DatePicker" is the same as RadDatePicker). It describes how you can specify custom formatting. I hope it helps.

Greetings,
Dani
the Telerik team

[Top Gun]

Thanks.  I appreciate the help.

[David]

Hi,

I don't use code-behind (we use MVVM) - how can I do this in XAML?

Thanks

[Boyan]

Hi Rodney,

Currently there is no way to set the format in XAML. You can only set this as shown in the link below. In MVVM scenario you can try to achieve this by binding the Culture property of the DateTimePicker to your ViewModel. As this is not very convenient we have logged this in our PITS, you can follow the items progress and vote for it here.

Regards,
Boyan
the Telerik team

[David]

Thanks, I went this route:

public CultureInfo CultureWithFormattedPeriod
{
    //Hack to get around the fact that there is no custom date format in the Telerik DatePicker
    //http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/wpf/datepicker/changing-dateformat.aspx
    get
    {
        var tempCultureInfo = (CultureInfo)CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Clone();
        tempCultureInfo.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = "MMyyyy";

        return tempCultureInfo;
    }
}

and in my View:

<telerik:RadDateTimePicker
    Culture="{Binding Path=CultureWithFormattedPeriod}"
    InputMode="DatePicker"
    DateSelectionMode="Month"
    SelectedValue="{Binding Path=ExtendedEditor.From, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, ValidatesOnExceptions=True}" />