RadMaskedTextBox textwithliterals is always blank minus mask?

[Jay]

I've got a masked textbox on a page to add a new contact that no matter what isn't returning any value? Here's the control in the markup:

<telerik:RadMaskedTextBox ID="txtWorkNumber" runat="server"  CssClass="input_text" Skin="" EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" Width="88%"   ></telerik:RadMaskedTextBox>

Then on page load I apply the mask based on country, but 99% of the time it's this code:

strMask = "###-###-####"
strDMask = "(###) ###-####"

 txtWorkNumber.Mask = strMask
 txtWorkNumber.DisplayMask = strDMask

SInce we are dealing with a phone number, it's a required field and the value regardless of when I try to read it (tested in multiple places) ended up looking like this

txtWorkNumber.TextWithLiterals = "--"

This code used to work, so wondering if it's something that changed since we recently updated to the latest version after being almost a year behind in updates.

[Viktor Tachev]

Hi Jay,

The behavior you describe was a bug in the ServicePack for Q1 2013 release. It replicates when you have different values for the DisplayMask and Mask properties of a RadMaskedTextBox control. The bug is now fixed as you could see here.

I would advise you to upgrade to the latest version of the controls. The latest version is from the beta release we had recently.

After a few weeks we will have major release where this bug fix will be included.

Regards,
Viktor Tachev
Telerik