The following quick start guide is intended to get you up and running with C1DateTimePicker. In this quick start, you'll create a new project in Visual Studio, add a C1DateTimePicker control to your application, and customize the C1DateTimePicker control.

Create an Application with C1DateTimePicker control

1. In Visual Studio, select File | New | Project.
2. In the New Project dialog box, select WPF Application.
3. Enter a Name and Location for your project and click OK to create the new application.
4. If you created a WPF project, in the Toolbox, double-click the C1DateTimePicker icon to add the C1DateTimePicker control to the WPF application.

You have completed the first step of the C1DateTimePicker quick start. In this step, you created a project and added a C1DateTimePicker control to it. In the next step, you'll customize the control.

Customize the C1DateTimePicker control

To modify the appearance of the control, select the C1DateTimePicker control and in the Properties window, set the following properties:

• Set the Height property to "30" to set height of the control.
• Set the Width property to "300" to set the width of the control.
• Set the TimeFormat property to ShortTime to change the format of the time to a short format consisting of only hours and minute spaces.
• Set the DateFormat property to Long to change the format of the date to a longer format that includes the weekday.
• Set the FirstDayOfWeek property to Wednesday to change the first day of the drop-down calendar's week to Wednesday.

In this step, you customized the appearance of the C1DateTimePicker control. In the next step, you will run the project and experience the functionality of the control.

Run the Application

1. From the toolbar menu, select Project | Run Project to run your application. Observe that output in the application resembles the following:

   

2. Click the time picker drop-down arrow to reveal the calendar and observe that the calendar's weeks start with Wednesday:

   

Congratulations! You have completed the C1DateTimePicker quick start. In this quick start, you created a WPF application containing a C1DateTimePicker control, modified the control's appearance, Now that you have finished the quick start, we recommend that you visit the Working with C1DateTimePicker or C1DateTimePicker Task-Based Help topics.