Hi,

We are having some trouble serializing a WebDatePicker on a server and deserializing it on another one where Culture is different (or even if it is the same server but Culture used on deserialization depends on the web client).

Desrialization fails with "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime."

Is this the expected behavior?

Thanks.

Here is how you can reproduce this issue:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{
if (!Page.IsPostBack)
{
 PersistenceManager lManager = PersistenceManager.GetInstance();
MemoryStream lSTream = (MemoryStream)GetDatePicker();
lSTream.Position = 0;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture =
CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("es-UY");
PersistenceData lData = PersistenceData.FromStream(lSTream);
var lControl = new WebDatePicker();
lManager.LoadControl(lControl, lData.Controls[0]);
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Add(lControl);

}
}

public Stream GetDatePicker(){
WebDatePicker lDatePicker = new WebDatePicker();
lDatePicker.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
lDatePicker.Value = new DateTime(2012, 12, 21);

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture =
CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US");

PersistenceManager lManager = PersistenceManager.GetInstance();
PersistenceData lData = new PersistenceData();
lData.Controls.Add(lManager.SaveControl(lDatePicker, "control"));
return lData.ToStream();
}