date picker setting for selecting only month and year.

[Anil]

Hi,
I want my date picker to show only months and year in the calender. and on selection the date picker should show only the selected month and year(mm/yy). This kind of date picker is required in case of getting expiry date for credit card.
I tried to set some formatting string in my xaml page but it didn work.
Any help in this regard will be appreciating.

Thanks,
Anil

[Konstantina]

Hello Anil,

Straight to your question.

To achieve your goal you can use MaskedTextBox for the DatePicker that will format the date as you wish. Attached is a project illustrating that approach.
If you have any further questions please feel free to ask.

All the best,
Konstantina
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[David]

I am very interested in this same situation.  I downloaded the sample app and got it to run in WPF (no Silverlight installed here).  I noticed that with the popup I can set it to DisplayMode=YearView and it almost works perfectly.  However, it still requires the user to select a specific day.  Is there any way to have the popup close once the month is selected?  What I'm getting at is that, like the OP, I need my user to simply select an expiration month.  There's no need for them to select a day as the code behind the scenes will assume last day of the month.  So it's not just an issue of displaying only MM/yyyy but also restricting selection.  I like the DatePicker as it has some slick animation moving from year to month etc and would love it if we could use it for this situation.

Thanks,
David

[Konstantina]

Hello David,

Thank you for contacting us.

Unfortunately, this cannot be achieved with the current implementation of the control. We will do our best to improve the selection behaviour of the DatePicker for one of our future releases.

If you have any other concerns about our controls please feel free to contact us again.

Regards,
Konstantina
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[Michael]

Is this feature implemented now?

[Konstantina]

Hi,

There are 2 options for this scenario: a DateSelectionMode can be set. More information you could find in this help article: http://www.telerik.com/help/wpf/raddatetimepicker-features-date-selection-modes.html and in order to display the text in the preferred way you could implement custom parsing. More information about this you could find in this help article: http://www.telerik.com/help/wpf/raddatetimepicker-how-to-implement-custom-parsing.html

Regards,
Konstantina
Telerik

[PRABAKARAN]

Hi,

I want my date picker to show only months and year in the calender. and
on selection the date picker should show only the selected month and
year(mm/yy). This kind of date picker is required in case of getting
expiry date for credit card.

I tried to set some formatting string in my Android page but it didn work.

Any help in this regard will be appreciating.

[Nasko]

Hello,

In order to visualize only months and years in the DateTimePicker control you need to set the InputMode property to DatePicker and the DateSelectionMode property to Month. More detailed information about the different input modes you could find on the following link:
http://www.telerik.com/help/wpf/raddatetimepicker-features-input-modes.html

About the format of the date, the DateTimePicker control provides the functionality to change the way the date is formatted. Please, check the following article in our help documentation that provides a detailed information about how to achieve this:
http://www.telerik.com/help/wpf/raddatetimepicker-features-formatting.html

We have created a sample project that demonstrates the described above  approach. Please, give it a try and let us know if it worked for you.

Regards,
Nasko
Telerik