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BinaryDatePicker .NET V1.0
A Calendar Control/Component for .Net
BinaryDatePicker .NET Ver. 1.0 is an advanced Microsoft .NET WinForms© Component, providing an Outlook© styled, feature rich and highly configurable, calendar (date picker) functionality for Microsoft WinForms© platform. Use BinaryDatePicker .NET as an alternative to any other calendar control in your WinForms applications, when you want to display an Outlook© style calendar functionality.
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Feature highlights:
- Outlook© styled calendar (date picker) control for WinForms© .NET platform.
- Developed completely in C# .NET language
- Component derives from System.Windows.Forms.Control only, and is completely custom drawn using GDI+
- Visual Studio .NET IDE integration lets you use the control without any programming. Just simple drag-and-drop!
- Highly customisable control - exposes various properties to fully customise various display aspects
- Control's calendar provides legend display for the user
- Supports dates from 01/02/0001 to 31/12/9999
- Fully supports input of NULL dates! - You are not required to set a date value at all! By setting a simple property, you can use the control without populating or selecting a valid date! WOW! That's what you have been looking for - Isn't it? Not only that! Now you can set your own custom text, that will be displayed in the control's date display area, when the control's current date/time value is set to NULL. This helps in displaying localised (culture specific) text for NULL date/time status. By default, the control displays an empty string, when its date/time value is NULL.
- The control's calendar is a fixed-font calendar - enabling a neat Outlook© calendar style display feature.
- NEW! Control now fully supports configuring its internal GUI objects! Now you can easily configure the internal command button objects of the control's drop-down calendar, by setting your own custom text for each of the calendar's command buttons - "Today" and "Close".
This will improve the effectiveness of the calendar's UI appearance, because you can now set localised text for those calendar buttons to suit your user language needs, especially when the calendar is being displayed in a non-english language. All this, by just setting one simple property! Its that easy!
- NEW! Full support for dynamically configuring control's date/time culture information! BinaryDatePicker .NET now supports configuring its culture/locale, directly and dynamically! What this means to you? This means, that now you can work with BinaryDatePicker .NET control with a culture/locale different to the rest of your .NET application, at any time. This could be really handy in a situation, for example, where you may want to display a Date/Time calendar with an option to let your user choose his convenient language/locale to view the calendar or set dates, irrespective of the culture of the currently running thread or the rest of your application! All this, is now possible with BinaryDatePicker .NET, by just setting its one simple property! Its that easy!
- NEW! BinaryDatePicker© .NET is now XML enabled! Now you can define "named" dates in a custom XML document and feed the control with this document by setting the control's appropriate property, which will enable your users to type in a custom "named" date string, for example "Customer's day", in the control's text box and accordingly the control's Value property will be set to its corresponding date as is defined in your custom XML document.
- NEW! A quick and handy Context menu!BinaryDatePicker© .NET now supports a context menu, enabling a quick access to clipboard operations, access some of the common dates, and to fire-up the control's calendar.
- NEW! Custom drawn "Text box" simulating XP© style edit box BinaryDatePicker© .NET now exposes a new property called EditControlStyleIsExtended, enabling support for a custom drawn text box with XP-style text box border.
- NEW! Custom border color - The control supports setting custom border color. You can set a color of your choice for drawing the control's border, by setting the appropriate property.
- NEW! Custom border styles - The control supports two different border styles - Normal and Dotted. By setting the DrawBorderAs property to Dotted style, you can have the control's border drawn as a dotted line.
- NEW! Support for changing dates using Keyboard shortcuts! Now you can use Keyboard shortcut keys to change dates with BinaryDatePicker .NET! Typical usage :- Ctrl+A and Ctrl+S keys to add/subtract day respectively, Up and Down arrow keys to add/subtract month respectively, and PageUp and PageDown keys to add/subtract year respectively
- NEW! Support for complete control over the drop-down Calendar buttons! Now you can set the Border styles, forecolor and backcolor for each of the command buttons in the drop-down calendar! You can also choose to hide the command buttons from display, totally!
When you have set the appropriate property to hide the calander buttons, you automatically get a new context menu, when you right-click in the calendar, which would provide for the functionality served by the calendar buttons, viz., choosing Today's date and closing the calendar! All this by just setting one simple property!
Technical Information
Component Type - Contains the following types of components...
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