Silverlight Date Formats

Question

Hello everyone,

I'm getting some very strange date formatting issues in my Silverlight application. My local culture is set to UK, yet I am consistently seeing US dates popping up all over the place. I can easily hardcode these to UK format in specific loactions using:

<UserControl ... Language="en-GB"...>

But as I'm sure you'd all agree this is a terrible thing to do.

I have tried setting the Lanaguage to en-GB in the main application and this has partial success. I have also tried Justin Angels suggestion (posted here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/477908/how-to-change-date-format-in-silverlight-datepicker-control), again only partial success.

An example of the issue can be seen here:

The datagrid on the parent page shows UK formatting, whilst the information in the ChildWindow shows US formatting ...grrrr

Anyone have a definitive solution for solving this across a whole application?

Thanks, Mark

Answer 1

Can you not use the SelectedDateFormat property of the datepicker? If you want to do this once could you not create your own usercontrol that derives from the original with this value preset, then use your derived control throughout your app?

Kindness,

Dan

Answer 2

Shot in the dark, but does changing the browser's Language Preference make a differnence? I.e. in IE Tools-->Internet Options-->Languages.

HTH

Mark