KendoUI DateTimePicker undefined on document.ready

Question

I have a Kendo DateTimePicker control in an mvc (asp.net) partial view that I am trying to access from document.ready():

@(Html.Kendo().DateTimePickerFor(vvm => vvm.StartTime)
                    .Name("dtpVisitStart")
                    .Format("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm tt")
                    .TimeFormat("HH:mm:tt")
                    .Events(e => e.Change("dtpVisitStart_Change")
                                )                               
)

The javascript:

$(document).ready(function () { 
    TestDTP();
});

function TestDTP() {
    var dtp = $("#dtpVisitStart").getKendoDateTimePicker();
    debugger;
}

When the debugger line runs dtp is undefined. How can I initialize this date time picker when the partial view loads?

Answer 1

What I ended up doing is initializing the datetimepicker from pure javascript and ditched the razor version:

function TestDTP() {
    $("#dtpVisitStart").kendoDateTimePicker({
        format: "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm tt",
        timeFormat: "HH:mm", 
        change: dtpVisitStart_Change, 
        value: "@(startTime)"
    });
    var dtp = $("#dtpVisitStart").getKendoDateTimePicker();
    debugger;
}