Time Picker that includes Milliseconds

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Hi,

Okay so after a lot of looking around and trying different things I have come to the conclusion that the standard .Net DateTimePicker doesn't provide support for picking milliseconds...despite what Microsoft documentation would suggest. I have also failed to find an example on the web of a different picker that does provide milliseconds option. My question is therefore this:

Does anyone know of a TimePicker that supports picking milliseconds or do I have to write one myself?

Thanks very much,

Ed

Posted 18-Mar-11 7:40am

Ed Nutting

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Sandeep Mewara 18-Mar-11 13:45pm

I would suggest writing one for yourself would be a good idea than spending more time in searching for it.

Ed Nutting 18-Mar-11 13:46pm

Thank you I thought that may be the answer, but it is a fair bit of work :(

Sandeep Mewara 18-Mar-11 13:49pm

I understand, and thus I posted my suggestion as a comment and not as an answer. :)

If someone has come across it then they might post it as an answer that can help you.

wizardzz 18-Mar-11 16:01pm

Yeah, I would suggest what Sandeep already mention. I have had to write custom controls for other things related to time input / formatting / etc. Might as well knock it out and be able to reuse it from then on. Or publish as a tip/trick or article so everyone who searches for it can use it.

Ed Nutting 18-Mar-11 16:02pm

Yeah I am in the process of producing a time picker...nearly done :) I will then post the code as an article so that others can use it :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Mar-11 18:48pm

Good choice.
My respect. I'll up-vote the Question in the meanwhile.
--SA

Ed Nutting 19-Mar-11 13:03pm

Please see my quick article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/Time_Picker.aspx

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Mar-11 15:26pm

Great. Bookmarked, will review later. Thank you.
--SA

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Solution 2

You can try this but you need to customize the interface.
Add an usercontrol named DTMLPicker and paste these code inside of it.

C#

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class DTMLPicker : System.Windows.Forms.DateTimePicker
    {// Its an usecontrol
        public DTMLPicker()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox Cmb = 
                       new System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox();
            this.Controls.Add(Cmb);
            Cmb.Name = "Cmb";
            Cmb.Top = 0;
            Cmb.Left = 0;
            Cmb.Width = 50;
            Cmb.BringToFront();
            for (int i = 1; i <= 1000; i++)
            {
                Cmb.Items.Add(i);
            } 
            int ms = Microsoft.VisualBasic.DateAndTime.Now.Millisecond ;
            Cmb.Text = ms.ToString("D2");
        }
    }
}

Posted 19-Mar-11 10:29am

Аslam Iqbal

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Ed Nutting 20-Mar-11 15:33pm

While this is a simple solution it does not solve the whole problem. For starters I then have to use a DateTimePicker and a combo box or several combo boxes - both options look bad and are confusing to a user. Secondly I can't then just get one DateTime or Timespan value I have to combine the DateTimePicker and combo box (or several combo boxes) value's which is just effort especially as it doesn't look good on screen. I wrote my TimePicker control which looks good and runs well :)

Аslam Iqbal 20-Mar-11 16:14pm

You are right. But its a way which will show you how to start. If you are not pleased with this, you have chosen the wrong forum. No one here to do your job. I didn't tell you that it will solve your problem.

Ed Nutting 20-Mar-11 16:17pm

If you look I have actually written and solved my problem before you tried to answer and also, my original question was if one existed, which until I wrote one, it didn't. There is a reason the button is: Submit Your **SOLUTON** Your answer 'Add an usercontrol named DTMLPicker and paste these code inside of it.' would suggest you were trying to solve my problem outright not give a starting suggestion. Anyway, I have solved my problem far better so there is not point argueing over this.

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Ed Nutting · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-19T07:04:00

Solution 1

I ended up answering this one myself: Time Picker[^]

Posted 19-Mar-11 7:04am

Ed Nutting