Why on earth would the dateEdit control return the date in this format "Tue Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2012" … Any other format would have been immediately usable.
Please tell me you have an easy method to convert the date format to something usable without writing a special Devexpress DateEdit Parsing routine. i cant find one in your supporting documentation.
I tried to change the DisplayFormatString but it doesnt work.
I have a DateEdit in my index:
<index>
@Html.DevExpress().DateEdit( settings => { settings.Name = "startDate"; settings.Properties.DisplayFormatString = "yyyy-dd-MM"; //settings.Properties. settings.Date = new DateTime(2012, 01, 01); settings.Width = Unit.Pixel(200);
} ).GetHtml()
</index>When i click a button it calls the gridview.PerformCallback which sets an e.customArgs to pass through to the actionresult.
I try to consume it like this.
<controller>
var startDate = DateTime.Parse(Request.Params["StartDate"]);
</controller>
Controlling the format returned via a property on the DateEdit would be nice.
I solved it like this,
CultureInfo provider = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
var pattern = @"[a-zA-Z]+ [a-zA-Z]+ [0-9]+ [0-9]+:[0-9]+:[0-9]+ (?<timezone>[a-zA-Z]+) [0-9]+";
// DevExpress date format : Tue Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2012
var startDateString = Request.Params["StartDate"];
Regex findTz = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.Compiled);
var tz = findTz.Match(startDateString).Result("${timezone}");
var format = "ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss " + tz + " yyyy";
var startDate = DateTime.ParseExact(startDateString, format, provider);
My question remains, is there a property on the control that can simply output a format of my choosing or one that is standard ? That was far too laborious for such a simple thing.