Use a MaskEdit Control as DateTime Control

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Hello,
I Want to Accept date from user in dd/mm/yyyy format like datetimepicker control in .NET.

If maskEdit Control can do that please tell me how?
if any other efficient way is available please suggest.

Please help.

Posted 9-Jun-11 6:12am

Sourav Sarkar-SS

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Solution 4

Bad idea. DateTimePicker is better :-)

—SA

Posted 10-Jun-11 7:18am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Solution 1

Put the mask edit on the form and in its mask property and set its mask property.

Posted 9-Jun-11 7:58am

Abhinav S

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[no name] 9-Jun-11 14:50pm

thanks its working.
but another problem!
if any one enter 77/44/6547 then
how to validate?
dd/mm/yyyy format
and how store it in database in mm/dd/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd format.
Please help.

Solution 2

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/11405hcf%28v=vs.71%29.aspx[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa733654%28v=vs.60%29.aspx[^]

If you have more concerns, please let me know.

Posted 9-Jun-11 8:05am

Monjurul Habib

Updated 9-Jun-11 9:24am

v3

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[no name] 9-Jun-11 14:53pm

is it will work for VB 6.0

Monjurul Habib 9-Jun-11 15:22pm

just updated answer.previous link was wrong.

[no name] 9-Jun-11 16:41pm

thanks
but how to check that entered date is a valid Date or not.
and how to set the current date to the control.

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thatraja · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-09T18:31:00

Solution 3

Look at these CP articles

VB.NET Maskedbox Control - Final Release[^]

Masked C# TextBox Control[^]

TextBox whith Validation Functions and MaskEdit[^]

Posted 9-Jun-11 18:31pm

thatraja