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If you have chosen to mask for Date, you specify the mask to use (let's say "MM/dd/yy") and the control will take care of the rest and only allow entries for that exact mask, even changing text color to red (by default, but you can change that) if it is not a correct input for that mask, thus notifying the user that it's not right. A truly unique feature is the Valid From and Valid To range that can be set for each data type. This means that values which are valid, but out of the specified range, are shown in red and the status is set to invalid and either above or below the range so you know exactly what the user has done from code.

Invalid date

Another great feature is when the component does not have focus you can specify a different mask to use, thus displaying a more readable value when the data is not being edited. It makes reports and data entry forms that much more user friendly and allows you more options when you're busy with development.

Edit View Mask

It's really easy to use as a currency component: initially it checks the environments culture to choose the currency symbol to use but this can be changed to any string value. For instance, you may not be happy with just a pound sign so you can add a GBP from code.

Currency

The up/down buttons can be customised too, from border types to background and border colors. Resolution (the amount to decrement/increment by) can be adjusted at run-time as well as in the IDE. Or if you don't want to see the buttons, just hide them.

This is a great way to edit or display times as well, because users can sometimes be a little trying, and validation from code after the user has entered the data and clicked on the Save button is always tiresome, we know...
Now the user can only enter valid values with a nice neat error flag to tell you the data is incorrect!

Time Mask

Of course we didn't forget about numbers. All the usual stuff applies with comma seperated thousands and decimal places. Obviously the up/down buttons are useful here too.

Numeric Mask

So, as you can tell, this is not just another edit mask component; it has some great features to set it far ahead of the competition and is borne out of years of our own frustration doing data validation on user input. We're sure you're going to love it!

If you're still not convinced, go ahead and download the trial version to test it (from the top of this page, for free, and with no need to register or sign anything). Once you do, we know you're going to want one.