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Stephen Kalyniuk
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WinEditors and Partial Dates
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I have an application in which I need to be able to handle partial dates.

That is a partial dates like 09-2005 where 09 is the month and 2005 is the year.

Ideally  there would be an ability to configure a control to understand that  _ _-09-2005 = 01-09-2005 (dd-mm-yyyy) , but not display the 01 for the day. equally _ _- _ _ - 2005 would become 01-01-2005 with a flag set to 1 to indicate that only the year part is valid

I am intending to store the date in a  date column with a data validity column 1 = Year, 2 = Year and Month and 3= Year, Month and Day

Any suggestions as to the best way to handle this or do's and dont's would be grealy apprecaited.

Thank you

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    The DateTImeEditor can't handle this because it deals with dates, which require an explicitly defined day month and year.

    You can probably do this using an UltraMaskedEditor control with a regular numeric mask like "nn-nnnn", and then when it comes time to get a date out of the string value entered by the user, parse the text with a "01" inserted between the month and year, so that the value can be parsed as if it were a date.

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