Date Picker in Filter Context Menu

[Marianne]

Is it possible to replace the context menu with a date picker control?  I don't want to post my code because if I have been able to show the date picker it has been sharply compressed.  Do I remove the items - or just hide them?  Where do I add the date picker control?  And how do I make it bigger - it automatically appears as 200, 20 and I need it to be 300, 300 at least

[Nadya | Tech Support Engineer]

Hello Marianne,

If you want to show a RadDateTimePicker in the context menu in the virtual grid when you right-click with the mouse on the filtering row I can suggest you to create a custom context menu. The ContextMenuOpening event is the right place to assign the new context menu to your grid. You can use the RadHostItem class which allows adding controls in elements. Please refer to the following articles:
https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/controls/virtualgrid/context-menu/custom-context-menu
https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/telerik-presentation-framework/elements/use-control-inside-an-element

Please refer to the following example:

public partial class RadForm1 : Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadForm
    {

        RadContextMenu contextMenu = new RadContextMenu();
        public RadForm1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            RadDateTimePicker picker = new RadDateTimePicker();
            RadMenuItem menuItem1 = new RadMenuItem();
            menuItem1.MinSize = new Size(200, 30);
            RadHostItem hostItem = new RadHostItem(picker);
            menuItem1.Children.Add(hostItem);
            contextMenu.Items.Add(menuItem1);

            this.radVirtualGrid1.ContextMenuOpening += this.RadVirtualGrid1_ContextMenuOpening;
            
        }

        private void RadVirtualGrid1_ContextMenuOpening(object sender, VirtualGridContextMenuOpeningEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.RowIndex == -3)
            {
                e.ContextMenu = contextMenu.DropDown;
            }
        }
}

I hope this helps. If you have other questions do not hesitate to ask.

Regards,
Nadya
Progress Telerik