Date formatting in ScheduleView doesn't follow current thread culture

[samy]

After setting eveything i can think about to french, i still have some bound values in custom tooltips and custom event windows showing up in an english format. How can i have the thread set in french.

Here's what i do in the initialization step of my Silverlight app

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr");
            System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr");
            Telerik.Windows.Controls.LocalizationManager.DefaultCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr");

Then i have a custom tooltip:

<DataTemplate x:Key="PlanificationTooltipTemplate">
            <Grid MaxWidth="300">
                <StackPanel >
                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="0, 0,15, 0">
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Subject}" FontWeight="Bold" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
                        <TextBlock FontWeight="Bold"><Run Text=" - ("/></TextBlock>
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Appointment.Planification.Prestation.Produit}" FontWeight="Bold" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
                        <TextBlock FontWeight="Bold"><Run Text=")"/></TextBlock>
                    </StackPanel>
                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                        <TextBlock><Run Text="Client : "/></TextBlock>
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Appointment.Planification.Prestation.Client}" FontWeight="Bold" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
                    </StackPanel>
                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                        <TextBlock><Run Text="Site : "/></TextBlock>
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Appointment.Planification.Prestation.Site}" FontWeight="Bold" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
                    </StackPanel>
                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Start, StringFormat=\{0:HH:mm\}}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
                        <TextBlock><Run Text=" - "/></TextBlock>
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding End, StringFormat=\{0:HH:mm\}}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
                    </StackPanel>
                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Visibility="{Binding Path=Appointment.Planification.PlanificationRecurrente, Converter={StaticResource BooleanToVisibilityConverter }}">
                        <Image x:Name="RecurrenceMark" Grid.Column="0" Margin="2 1 1 0" Width="10" Height="10" Visibility="{Binding Path=Appointment.Planification.PlanificationRecurrente, Converter={StaticResource BooleanToVisibilityConverter }}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Source="{StaticResource AppointmentItem_Recurrence}" />
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding  Appointment.Planification.PremiereRecurrence, StringFormat=\{0:d\}}" />
                        <TextBlock><Run Text=" au "/></TextBlock>
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding  Appointment.Planification.DerniereRecurrence, StringFormat=\{0:d\}}" />
                    </StackPanel>
                </StackPanel>
            </Grid>
        </DataTemplate>

where the bound values PremiereRecurrence and DerniereRecurrence, both formatted with {0:d} display in mm/DD/YYYY instead of the french value DD/mm/YYYY.

What's the way to force a locale on the tooltip (i have the same problem with an custom edit window for Appointments)?

[samy]

Any idea? i could force the date to display with the right format but i'd rather rely on the current culture i'm working on.

[Yana]

Hello Samy,

I am afraid that you need to set these format strings in XAML. The other option is to use a Converter and convert the dates according to the set Culture.


All the best,
Yana
the Telerik team