Hi All,

I am very exited with recent announcement of the StrataFrame Team for the 2012 Roadmap so with that in mind  I would like to share with the community my first ever workable user control, it is a VB.

This DateRangeSelector user controls allows you to select a pre-defined date periods like Today, This Week-To-Date, This Year, Last Year and many more as well as a Custom Date that will allow the end user to select Start and End dates.

Useful features:

• Selected date will used StrataFrame functionality to store that selection in the Registry if the Form's RegistryRepositoryKey is filled.
• Public properties to pre-select a date range or each Start and End date values.  Look at the "+Progytech: Actions" group in the property sheet.
• A SelectedValueChanged event is triggered whenever the date range period has changed.  Use this event to fill your BOs or requery your listviews.
• The StrataFrame custom error provider is used to validate that the date range is good before passing the values to any method.
• Internally we are expecting the based class used as MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.StandardForm but feel free to use your own base class.
  

For learning purpose, I tried to keep this sample project as simple as possible, but in the bizOrders.vb business object I am using a Custom Field Property to show the Customer Name and this field is filled from the FillByDateRange() method in this BO which uses a SQL Query with a JOIN condition to grab the Customer Name as cfp_CustomerName and take advantage of StrataFrame Custom Field Properties functinality.

I hope this sample can be useful to the community and please, feel free to exchange your comments, suggestions and any enhancements to make this User Control better.

Enjoy!!!

Edhy Rijo