Possible bug in time ruler stringformat

[hwsoderlund]

I was trying to change the formatting of the times in the time ruler to 12/24 hour format. For this I changed the TimerulerMajorTickStringFormat on the DayViewDefinition and the WeekViewDefinition to "\{0:t\}", which seems logical to me. But then the whole thing crashed. I then discovered that if I bind the value against the following property in my viewmodel, it works fine:
string TimeStringFormat = "{0:t}";

Is there anything else I have to do when putting the stringformat directly in the xaml, or is this a bug?

/Henrik

[Valeri Hristov]

Hello Henrik,

I guess you didn't escaped the curly brackets in the format string - "{}{0:t}", hence the crash. You could check the source code of our online exmaples for more information:
http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#ScheduleView/CustomDateFormats

Kind regards,
Valeri Hristov
the Telerik team

[hwsoderlund]

Ah.I did not know you had to do that. I thought escaping was done with the backslashes. Anyway, it works perfectly now, thank you.

[Valeri Hristov]

The special escaping is needed to instruct the XAML parser to treat the values, containing curly brackets as strings, not as markup extensions like Binding or StaticResource.

Kind regards,
Valeri Hristov
the Telerik team