How can I show only the years with a DateEdit in C# with DevExpress?

Question

I want to show a calendar with years only, not days nor months. Preferably with the DateEdit that DevExpress provides.

Answer 1

You can accomplish this task by handling the DateEdit.Popup event:

private void dateEdit1_Popup(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        DateEdit edit = sender as DateEdit;
        PopupDateEditForm form = (edit as IPopupControl).PopupWindow as PopupDateEditForm;
        form.Calendar.View = DevExpress.XtraEditors.Controls.DateEditCalendarViewType.YearInfo;
    }

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Answer 2

Using PopupDateEditForm will only format the view. But the user has to select the date at last.

Only showing and selecting Year can be achieve using this -

RepositoryItemDateEdit dropDownYear = new RepositoryItemDateEdit();
dropDownYear.Mask.EditMask = "yyyy";
dropDownYear.Mask.UseMaskAsDisplayFormat = true;
dropDownYear.VistaCalendarViewStyle = VistaCalendarViewStyle.YearsGroupView;

this.ColumnYear.ColumnEdit = dropDownYear;

Here I bind DateEdit repo to GridCOlumn.