Is it possible to have the calendar control with the date picker never close?

[Shilpi]

I want the Calendar Control with datePicker to stay open even with Date selection change. The reason I don't want to use the Calendar Control is because I want to give the user an option to type in the date as well.

Thanks, Shilpi

[Boyan]

Hi Shilpi,

This can't be done out of the box. Here are some ways that you can achieve this:

1. You can modify the template of the control and set to its DropDownButton (x:Name="PART_DropDownButton") IsOpen = true. The setback will be that if you have more than 1 DatePicker on the page clicking on one of the dropdowns will close the other.

2. You can use DatePicker and just set  IsDropDownOpen="True" on Focus.

3. You can use two controls- 1 Calendar and one RadMaskedDateTimeInput and bind them to the same value in your ViewModel.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Boyan
the Telerik team