Removing leading zeros with MonthView-DayHeaderDateFormat formatting

[Greg Mercer]

Hi,

I'm trying to set the header date formatting for the MonthView to not have a leading zero.

When I make the format change for the "first day" like this MonthView-FirstDayHeaderDateFormat="MMM d", the values are formatted correctly as Feb 1.

However, when I make the following format change for the remaining day headers: MonthView-DayHeaderDateFormat="d", it doesn't format the values as I would have expected (eg. 2). It instead formats the day headers as 02/02/2010.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Greg

[Peter]

Hi Greg,

I was able to replicate the problem. I will forward it to our development to team for review. Meanwhile, if you do not set the MonthView-DayHeaderDateFormat property, but leave it by default, you should get the desired result (e.g. 2, 3, 4... etc). You can also try setting MonthView-DayHeaderDateFormat="dd". I tested with this value and it seemed to have applied correctly.


Greetings,
Peter
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[Peter]

Hello Greg,

Further investigation on this case showed that everything is working as expected. Please, refer to this msdn topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx. The section on 'The "d" Custom Format Specifier' explains what caused the problem when setting DayHeaderDateFormat="d" -

'The "d" custom format specifier represents the day of the month as a number from 1 through 31. A single-digit day is formatted without a leading zero.

If the "d" format specifier is used without other custom format specifiers, it is interpreted as the "d" standard date and time format specifier ...'

A possible workaround is to set:

MonthView-DayHeaderDateFormat="''d" (note the single quotes preceding the 'd');


Cheers,
Peter
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[Neil]

Unfortunately the "'d'" doesn't work.

Using "%d" does, though.