Last week I needed a calendar control to input dates into a textbox, in Belgian notation, so I decided to give the Calendar extender control in the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit a go.
I put this line in my web.config: <globalization culture="nl-BE" uiCulture="nl-BE" />
I added a TextBox control and a Calendar extender but it always gave me US notation. So I went out looking for a solution. Searching on the ASP.NET forums quickly answered my question. The ScriptManagers EnableGlobalization property seems not to be set by default. After setting it to true my problem was solved immediately.
This was my little test code:
1 <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="culturewithoutsettingscriptmanager.aspx.cs" Inherits="culturewithoutsettingscriptmanager" %>
2 <%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix="ajaxToolkit" %>
3
4 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
5
6 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
7 <head runat="server">
8 <title>Untitled Page</title>
9 </head>
10 <body>
11 <form id="form1" runat="server">
12 <div>
13 <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" EnableScriptGlobalization="true">
14 </asp:ScriptManager>
15 <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="TextBoxDate" Width="116px" />
16 <asp:Button runat="server" ID="ButtonSave" OnClick="ButtonSave_Click" Text="Save" />
17 <br />
18 <asp:Label ID="LabelDate" runat="server"></asp:Label>
19 <ajaxToolkit:CalendarExtender runat="server" ID="Calendar1"
20 FirstDayOfWeek="Monday"
21 TargetControlID="TextBoxDate" />
22 </div>
23 </form>
24 </body>
25 </html>
And the CodeFile:
1 using System;
2 using System.Data;
3 using System.Configuration;
4 using System.Collections;
5 using System.Web;
6 using System.Web.Security;
7 using System.Web.UI;
8 using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
9 using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
10 using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
11
12 public partial class culturewithoutsettingscriptmanager : System.Web.UI.Page
13 {
14 protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
15 {
16
17 }
18 protected void ButtonSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
19 {
20 DateTime dt;
21 DateTime.TryParse(TextBoxDate.Text.Trim(), out dt);
22
23 LabelDate.Text = dt.ToShortDateString();
24 }
25 }
Testing it with my birthdate, 13/06/1975, I got the expected result in LabelDate.
Grz, Kris.
