Selected date not working

[Brendan Vogt]

Hi,

I am trying to set the SelectedDate property for my date picker which comes out of a XML file.  But the error that I keep on getting is:

Specified cast is not valid.

The date is in the format of 2008/01/01 in my XML file.

Here is my code:

<radG:GridTemplateColumn
   HeaderText="Date Of Deposit"
   UniqueName="DateOfDeposit">
   <ItemTemplate>
      <asp:Label ID="lblDateOfDeposit" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("DateOfDeposit") %>'></asp:Label>
   </ItemTemplate>
   <EditItemTemplate>
      <radCln:RadDatePicker
         ID="rdDateOfDeposit"
         SelectedDate='<%# Eval("DateOfDeposit") %>'
         runat="server">
         <DatePopupButton
           HoverImageUrl="~/RadControls/Calendar/Skins/Default/Img/datePickerPopupHover.gif"
           ImageUrl="~/RadControls/Calendar/Skins/Default/Img/datePickerPopup.gif" />
      </radCln:RadDatePicker>
   </EditItemTemplate>
</radG:GridTemplateColumn>

Please can someone help me?

Thanks
Brendan

[Brendan Vogt]

Hi,

I got to the solution of this error.  But this is the second control that I come across where I had to set a property that wasn't in the intellisense but it had to be set!!  Are these bugs?

DbSelectedDate='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "DateOfDeposit") %>'

Now the next issue that I am having is that if the date comes in as an empty string then I want the date picker's textbox to be blank.

Please help.

[Vlad]

Hello Brendan,

DbSelectedDate is similar to SelectedValue of standard Microsoft GridView control. You can set this only with binding expression.

All the best,
Vlad
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