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Winning Date and Time Entry Controls
Peter’s Date and Time provides 18 controls used to collect date and time
oriented data from your users. Since its release in 2002, Peter's Date and Time
(formerly Peter's Date Package) has built a reputation of excellence, including
its extensive and unique features, quality, and documentation. It also has a
large installed base.
Here are the controls of Peter's Date and Time.
DateTextBox
The DateTextBox control is a TextBox that provides elegant client-side entry of
dates. It filters keystrokes, validates entries with helpful feedback, follows
international formatting, and accepts partial dates. (For example, if you enter
only the month and day, it will add the current year for you.) Its extensive
features include a popup calendar (often called a "Date Picker"); context menu
to show and run available commands; help button; range support when two are
connected; minimum, maximum dates, and MUCH more.
The DateTextBox
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The default popup calendar |
A customized popup calendar |
Popup calendar showing two months.
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Details and Demos
Calendar
This Calendar control is a replacement for the native Calendar control
that provides extensive improvements over the original. Use it to let the user
select a single date and to show date oriented information in date cells. This
Calendar control does not require postbacks to handle the user's clicks,
providing a much faster experience than the original Calendar control. It has
over 200 properties to customize it, including showing multiple months, a
context menu of commands, a popup MonthYearPicker, and a display of the
selected date.
Calendar |
Heavily customized |
Showing multiple months |
Details and Demos
MultiSelectionCalendar
This is a variation of the Calendar control that supports multiple selections.
It can select individual dates, weeks, months, and days of the week. It also
has a mode to require a consecutive range of dates. The MultiSelectionCalendar
introduces its unique Message Center to assist the user in date selection. It
also offers all of the formatting features of Calendar too.
MultiSelectionCalendar
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Showing the Message Center
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Details and Demos
TimeOfDayTextBox and DurationTextBox
There are two types of times: time of day and duration. Use the TimeOfDayTextBox
to enter the time of day. It supports 24 and 12 hour formats.
Use the DurationTextBox to enter any duration from 0 to 99999:59:59
hours. It supports HH:MM or decimal entry. Both controls offer a popup
TimePicker, help button, context menu, and spinners.
Details and Demos
SpecialDates
The SpecialDates control supplies a list of dates and attributes about those
dates to the DateTextBox and two Calendar controls.
The DateTextBox uses the SpecialDates to prevent users from entering unwanted
dates.
The Calendar controls use the SpecialDates data to customize the appearance of
each date cell and make some of them unselectable. The formatting is very
powerful, with the capability of popping up a window offering further details
as the user points to a date in the calendar.
Calendar with SpecialDates enhancing it.
Details and Demos
Validators
Validation is a requirement for data entry. Date and time values cannot be
confirmed until the format is proven to be a real date or time and value
matches your requirements. The native ASP.NET validators cannot handle the
additional formats you can specify for dates, such as abbreviated and long
dates. They cannot handle time and duration values either.
Peter's Date and Time includes two sets of validators, with support for
the native Validation framework and
Peter's Professional Validation module. In addition to validating the
format, range, and comparison rules, Peter's Date and Time provides validation
for these cases:
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UnselectableDatesValidator - Prevents certain dates from being selected within
the DateTextBox.
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UnselectedTimesValidator - Prevents entry of certain times, either from the
list associated with the popup TimePicker or from a time interval rule.
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DifferenceValidator - For dates: compares the dates within two DateTextBoxes to
be sure they are no more or less than a specific number of days apart. For
example, the dates cannot be any closer than 5 days or further than 30 days.
For times: compares the times within two time oriented TextBoxes to be sure
they are no more or less than a specific number of seconds apart. For example,
the times cannot be any closer than 1 hour (3600 seconds) or more than 24 hours
(24 x 3600 seconds) apart.
The Peter's Date and
Time Module
Peter's Date and Time is a module of Peter's Data Entry Suite.
It is included when you purchase the Peter's Data Entry Suite, or it can be
purchased separately starting at $90 per server.
If you purchase this module alone, you will get the 18 controls described
on this page.
If you are purchasing modules, the Peter's
Interactive Pages module is recommended but not required. When used,
these controls can offer Context Menus, Help buttons, Interactive Hints, and
the EnterSubmitsControlID property.
Questions?
Email Peter at PLBlum@PeterBlum.com
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