WPF MonthCalendar and DateTimePicker

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Fikret Huang - 28 Nov 2007 01:24 GMT

After reading this thread (http://tinyurl.com/3c6358) that I know WPF doesn't
provide MonthCalendar control and DateTimePicker control, but I can use the
Kevin's Bag-O-Tricks open source DateTimePicker control. After checking some
books and websites, I found another way to use the MonthCalendar and
DateTimePicker using WPF, it suggests me to add the "ElementHost" component
and put the "WindowsFormHost" component into an instance of Elementhost, then
we could use the MonthCalendar or DateTimePicker control, but I failed to do
with it(I can't find the ElementHost component in ToolBox and I can't use the
WindowsFormHost to contain the MonthCalender control).
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// Here's the code
Expander expander = new Expander();
expander.Header = "WPF Header";
WindowsFormHost host = new WindowsFormHost();
host.Child = new MonthCalendar();
expander.Content = host;
elementHost.Child = expander;
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How do I use MonthCalendar and DateTimePicker like that way ?

Thanks in advance
Fikret

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 28 Nov 2007 03:42 GMT

Hi Fikret,

Welcome to MSDN Managed Newsgroup!

I think you're referring to WindowsFormsHost. Please see following sample:

#Walkthrough: Hosting a Windows Forms Control in Windows Presentation
Foundation
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751761.aspx

WindowsFormsHost host = new WindowsFormsHost();
MonthCalendar cal = new MonthCalendar();
host.Child = cal;
this.grid1.Children.Add(host);

By the way, since we currently don't have a dedicated WPF newsgroup now,
would you please post WPF related question in newsgroup
"microsoft.public.dotnet.framework" next time? This newsgroup is usually
used to discuss Visual Studio IDE extensions such as macro/add-in/package
developing. Thanks.

Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 30 Nov 2007 03:13 GMT

Hi Fikret,

I'm writing to check the status of this post. Please feel free to let me
know if there's anything else I can help. Thanks.

Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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