How to copy date value from a Windows Forms DateTimePicker control?

Question

I'm building an application with C# code. I would like to give the user of my programme the ability to copy data value from a Windows Forms DateTimePicker control to buffer. How can I do it?

Answer 1

you need a ContextMenuStrip control on your form to do what you want.

• Add a ContextMenuStrip control on your form and set it menu item like this. Set your DateTimePicker control's ContextMenuStrip to your ContextMenuStrip you just created. you can define your menu item a short cut. here i set it to ctrl + C.

Set its shortcut to ctrl + C or whatever you want from properties of menu item that user will click on it.

finally on click event of menuitem, copy your control value to Clipboard.

 private void copyToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var copiedDate = dateTimePicker.Value.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");
        Clipboard.SetText(copiedDate);
    }