DatePicker
DatePicker, shown in Figure 14.10 for a Windows Store app, looks simplistic. It’s just three ComboBoxes stuck together for selecting a month, date, and year. But this is definitely a control you don’t want to implement yourself, as handling dates correctly for all cultures is tricky.
FIGURE 14.10 The modest-looking DatePicker control packs a lot of power.
By default, DatePicker shows the current date, but you can change it by setting its Date property to a DateTimeOffset. This is also the single property whose value changes whenever the user changes the month, day, or year. Such changes raise a DateChanged event. You can turn
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