Can you bind separate date and time fields to a single DateTime in C#?

Question

Our interface has the date and time in separate boxes. One box for date (with a DatePicker), one box for time (as a TextBox).

Is it possible to databind a single DateTime (or preferably a nullable DateTime) to these separate values? (If not, what alternatives are there?)

How can this be done?

Answer 1

In your interface create a public property or method for retrieving the entire date. This method or property will then create the date using your interface fields. What you have done sounds like a user friendly interface as clear separation of the two is logical.

public DateTime GetDateTime(){
    return new DateTime(DateControl.Year,DateControl.Month,DateControl.Day,TimeControl.Hour,TimeControl.Minute);
}

As an example this could be a possible method on your interface which can be consumed!

Subquently you could have a set method which takes a datetime and you then split of the values and bind the two controls. :-)

Andrew