We are happy to announce the
Service Pack 1 release of our
RadControls for Windows 8 suite. Along with the numerous bug fixes and improvements we have also implemented two highly requested new features for our
Date/Time Picker components, available both for the XAML and HTML parts of the suite. We always listen to our users and their feedback – meet these fresh new enhancements:
Display Mode
Many of our users wanted to be able to display the Selector (or Popup) part of the picker in the main page layout instead of having the popup open on tap. Well, this is not a “request” anymore but rather a feature :)
A screen of our new example from our Demos Application in the Windows Store (XAML version, HTML version).
Displaying the Selector within the page’s layout is as simple as setting the
DisplayMode property (
XAML,
HTML) to
DateTimePickerDisplayMode.Inline. By default the Date/Time pickers will have their
DisplayMode property set to
DateTimePickerDisplayMode.Standard. The Selection Change mode is also different when the Selector is displayed Inline – every single change within any of the looping lists will also change the Value property of the picker. This is what we call “Instant update” vs. “Transaction (confirmation) update” when the control is in “Standard” display mode.
Numerical Keyboard Input
The other highly requested feature is the ability of the pickers to “Translate” numerical key strokes to valid Date and Time values.

In the above example, typing “2012” over the currently Expanded/Focused Year list will navigate you automatically to the year 2012.
The keyboard navigation support is explained in more details in
our documentation (
HTML version).
We hope that you will love these new additions. We will be expecting your feedback and suggestions in
our forums for Windows 8 HTML or for
Windows 8 XAML as well as in the
Ideas&Feedback portal.
