How to highlight current date in DateTimePicker

[Shashank]

Hi,
I want to higlight the current date in the rad date time picker,  if a user selects any other date, other than today, today's date should still be highlighted, while he selects other date of his desire. I want to higlight today's date, so that it serves as a reference to user, just in case he forgets what today';s date is. Please help.

Thanks
Shashank

[Princy]

Hi Shashank,

Add SpecialDays as shown below in order to highlight current day in calendar popup of RadDateTimePiker.

ASPX:

<telerik:RadDateTimePicker ID="RadDateTimePicker1" Runat="server" Culture="English (United States)">
<Calendar>
    <SpecialDays>
        <telerik:RadCalendarDay Repeatable="Today" ItemStyle-BackColor="Bisque"/>
    </SpecialDays>
</Calendar>
</telerik:RadDateTimePicker>

Thanks,
Princy.

[Shashank]

Thanks princy,
works fine.

[Gregg]

How do you achieve the same if the DateTimePicker is instead created by a GridDateTimeColumn? For example: 

<telerik:GridDateTimeColumn
 PickerType="DateTimePicker"
...

[Princy]

Hi Gregg,

Try out the following code snippet in order to highlight current date.

ASPX:

<telerik:GridDateTimeColumn DataField="BirthDate" HeaderText="BirthDate" SortExpression="BirthDate" UniqueName="BirthDate" PickerType="DateTimePicker" DataType="System.DateTime">
</telerik:GridDateTimeColumn>

CS:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item is GridEditableItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode)
    {
        GridDataItem dataItem = e.Item as GridDataItem;
        RadDateTimePicker datepicker = (RadDateTimePicker)dataItem["BirthDate"].Controls[0];

        RadCalendarDay NewDay = new RadCalendarDay();
        NewDay.Repeatable = RecurringEvents.Today;
        NewDay.ItemStyle.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Bisque;
        datepicker.SharedCalendar.SpecialDays.Add(NewDay);
    }
}

Thanks,
Princy.

[Gregg]

That works. Thank you.

[Ram]

Hi princy.
I'm using Raddatetimepicker
Can I acheive this in raddatetimepicker.
Can I place the calender image inside textbox rightside as in my attached pic