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Inserting a date picker control

Inserting a date picker control

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Inserting a date picker control

- Date Pickers are one of the most elegant controls because they work just like you would expect them to. You open a calendar and choose a date and we have a need for three of them in this version of our form: Today's Date, Event Date, and Contact Date. Let me show you how you work with a Date Picker Control. Once again, click where you want the control to go, go to the Developer tab, and the Date Picker Control is on the second row, looks like a small calendar with a little tiny box on it. Click to your Date Picker, then click Properties and notice that we have more Properties here for this Date Picker Control than we've had for some of the other controls that we've been working with so this is SubmitDate or Today'sDate, depends on what you'd like to call it. Control can't be deleted. We're not going to let someone get rid of it and notice that we get to choose what our date looks like. Actually like a format that's much like this. It starts with the number of the day. It then has…

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