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DatePicker in BrowseDialog not working

rmoore — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:07:20 GMT

I have a browse dialog and want to show a datepicker in but it's only showing as a textbox. I have made sure that the field in the database is of datetime and that is was mapped successfully in the business object. I have tried it on another browse dialog with the same results. Any ideas?

RE: DatePicker in BrowseDialog not working

Trent L. Taylor — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:07:20 GMT

Ben Hayat is correct. The GetType() does not return a DateTime but rather a Nullable data type....thus you will never get a DateTime field. You are better off using the Return Alternate Value on Null rather than Nullable within the Customization so that the data type remains a DateTime but allows for a NULL exception. As long as you have your field typed as a Nullable (or use Nullable Generics within the customization) the BrowseDialog will never see that property as a DateTime.

RE: DatePicker in BrowseDialog not working

Ben Hayat — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:26:38 GMT

Is this field set to "Allow Null"? I suspect it's looking for "Nullable" type rather date type!

RE: DatePicker in BrowseDialog not working

rmoore — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:05:09 GMT

I have verified that that the datatype is a date. Here is screenshot of the designer.vb file of the BO.

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RE: DatePicker in BrowseDialog not working

Trent L. Taylor — Mon, 21 May 2007 09:55:54 GMT

The BrowseDialog will automatically show a date time picker for any field type of a DateTime. So the only reason you would not be getting a date/time picker is if your BO property that the field represents is not of a DateTime data type.

The above image shown is representing the cust_Created field on the Customers BO in the VB.NET tutorial. I went in and created a browse, added the cust_Created field to the SearchFields collection, associated the BrowseDialog with the MaintenanceFormToolstrip and ran and received the results above. Below is a screen shot of the strong-typed property of the field which can be found in the designer.vb file of the BO.