Hi,

I have got a text box where the user enters a date, for example for the 20th of Jan - my American users will enter '1/20/2009' and my Australian users will enter '20/1/2009'. How can I parse these different string formats into the same javascript Date object so I can work with it on the client? Can I use the microsoft AJAX library with MVC (asp:ScriptManager EnableScriptGlobalization="true")?

Thanks!

Hi,

Maybe you can take a look at the following code. But firstly you need to download the jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js from Jquery.

Firstly we need to import 2 scripts and a css file.

 
    <link href="../../css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

    <script src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <script src="../../Scripts/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Then

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
   
    $(document).ready(function() {
   
    $('#DateReleased').datepicker({
        duration: '',
        showTime: true,
        constrainInput: false
    });

    }
  )
</script>


<label for="DateReleased">DateReleased:</label>
                <%= Html.TextBox("DateReleased",null, ViewData["Readonly"] as IDictionary<string, object>)%>

Dictionary<string, object> ID = new Dictionary<string, object>();
            
            ID.Add("readonly", "readonly");
            ViewData["Readonly"] = ID;

I worked it out. I can use Microsoft AJAX library with globalisation support, however as it is a MVC application I can't use the asp:ScriptResource tags.

I found this post:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/817046/what-about-script-globalization-of-microsoftajax-js-in-asp-net-mvc

you can then use the date format functions in the microsoft AJAX library to do string to date conversions and date to string based on the user's locale.