After launching the application, you will see a window displayed with a similar appearance to the one above. On the left side of the main window a date is displayed in a COMBO_BOX. Clicking on this COMBO_BOX and a CALENDAR control will appear showing the same date than in the COMBO_BOX. On the the right side of the main window are the commands to control the format of the displayed date and the style of the CALENDAR control.
Clicking on the "Change font" button and a change font dialog box will appear.
Clicking on the "Change color" button and a dialog box will appear that will permit you to customize the color appearance of the calendar thought a color dialog box.
This application uses several different controls, but tend to show how to parameter the CALENDAR control using the FONT_DIALOG and COLOR_DIALOG.
When one of the buttons "Change font" or "Change color" is pressed, an event is launched and open the corresponding dialog box.
When the entry in the COMBO_BOX format change, an event is launched and modify the format of the displayed date.
This sample contains the following class:
This sample is translated from the example located in the QuickStart\winforms\samples\controlReference\dateTimePicker subdirectory of the .NET Framework SDK samples directory of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.