Refresh calendar (reselecting datatemplate)

[Kasper Schou]

Hi Telerik,

I'm having trouble getting the calendar to reselect template for the calendarbuttoncontent after initial load.

I've found that if I "browse" the calendar (so that the content is not shown) and back again, the template is reapplied, using updated information in my behind lists of dates.

I have created the following template selector:

public class CalendarButtonTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector
{
    public override DataTemplate SelectTemplate(object item, DependencyObject container)
    {
        CalendarButtonContent content = item as CalendarButtonContent;
        if (content != null && content.ButtonType == CalendarButtonType.Date)
        {
            if (CentralCalendarWindow.CalendarViewItems != null && CentralCalendarWindow.CalendarViewItems.Exists(c => c.Date == content.Date))
            {
                CalendarViewItem calendarViewItem = CentralCalendarWindow.CalendarViewItems.Find(c => c.Date == content.Date);
                if (calendarViewItem.Holiday)
                {
                    return HolidayTemplate;
                }
                else if (calendarViewItem.NoDistribution)
                {
                    return NoDistributionTemplate;
                }
                else if (calendarViewItem.PartlyNoDistribution)
                {
                    return PartlyNoDistributionTemplate;
                }
            }
        }
        return DefaultTemplate;
    }
    public DataTemplate DefaultTemplate { get; set; }
    public DataTemplate HolidayTemplate { get; set; }
    public DataTemplate NoDistributionTemplate { get; set; }
    public DataTemplate PartlyNoDistributionTemplate { get; set; }
}

In XAML i bind to the selector as a static resource like this:

DayTemplateSelector="{StaticResource templateSelector}"

And my template selection is like this:

<this:CalendarButtonTemplateSelector x:Key="templateSelector"
      DefaultTemplate="{StaticResource dataTemplateDefault}"
      HolidayTemplate="{StaticResource dataTemplateHoliday}"
      NoDistributionTemplate="{StaticResource dataTemplateNoDistribution}"
      PartlyNoDistributionTemplate="{StaticResource dataTemplatePartlyNoDistribution}"/>

Now the question - How can I explicitly have the calendar redo its template selection, like it does when the content gets redrawn when "browsing" the calendar.

And what I would really want to do is to only redo the template selection on specific days if possible.

Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Kasper Schou

[Kasper Schou]

Just to clarify, the following code will reapply the template selection:

DateTime current = _calendar.DisplayDate;
_calendar.DisplayDate = current.AddYears(1);
_calendar.DisplayDate = current;

But obviously I'm not very fond of using the above in my solution :)

/Kasper

[Kaloyan]

Hi Kasper Schou,

Sorry for the late response. What you can do is as follows:

var currentSelector = calendar.DayTemplateSelector;
calendar.DayTemplateSelector = null;
calendar.DayTemplateSelector = currentSelector;

Kind regards,
Kaloyan
the Telerik team

[Kasper Schou]

Hi Kaloyan,

Thank you for the reply, this is somewhat more pretty and works just fine :)

Best regards,
Kasper Schou

[Andrew]

I've tried doing this by resetting the DayTemplateSelector as suggested and it works to an extent, but I have found that, although though the day templates are recalculated, the day buttons become disabled until I manually change months. Changing the DisplayDate as Kasper once mentioned works and doesn't cause this issue. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this problem? 

[Konstantina]

Hi,

I think this is the best approach for now. Hope it is acceptable for you.
If you need further information please let us know.

Regards,
Konstantina
the Telerik team