Changing the string format of the WPF DatePicker

Question

I need to change the string format of the DatePickerTextBox in the WPF Toolkit DatePicker, to use hyphens instead of slashes for the seperators.

Is there a way to ov

Answer 1

It appears, as per Wonko's answer, that you cannot specify the Date format in Xaml format or by inheriting from the DatePicker.

I have put the following code into my View's constructor which overrides the ShortDateFormat for the current thread:

CultureInfo ci = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name);
ci.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = "dd-MM-yyyy";
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = ci;