VisualHint, a company specializing in the creation of elaborated and usable custom controls from scratch, is pleased to announce the release of its second product: Smart FieldPackEditor.Net 1.0. After addressing Microsoft PropertyGrids shortcomings, it is DateTimePickers turn to receive a facelift.

The Windows Forms DateTimePicker is one of the most criticized within the developers community. It offers no flexible rendering, no support for a null/DBNull value, poor API (e.g. there is no way to select a field or open/close the dropdown month calendar), no custom fields, and more.
Well, Smart FieldPackEditor.Net is finally the solution you have been looking for. It indeed offers a solid framework to develop any rule-based fields editor and one of its first derived class is the DateTimePicker.

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