Setting culture of days of the week

[ivanteles]

How to set the culture to pt-br so that the days of the week are in Portuguese?

[ME-MarvinE]

The CalendarView has no built-in support for cultures. However it does expose a DayNameTemplate property which you can use to implement the Portugese text yourself.

[ivanteles]

What kind of data should I pass?
list Days?

[ME-MarvinE]

Its a DataTemplate which gets passed a binding context of DayOfWeek from the CalendarView's DayNamesOrder property.

Basic Example:

<xc:CalendarView.DayNameTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
        <Label Text="{Binding .}"/>
    </DataTemplate>
</xc:CalendarView.DayNameTemplate>

Whatever the process is for providing culture based text would go in there. Or you could use DataTriggers or a converter with hardcoded values.

[ivanteles]

So I made a convert, but the control doesn't pass in my convert!

<xCalendar:CalendarView.DayNameTemplate>
                    <DataTemplate>
                            <Label Text="{Binding ., Mode=TwoWay, Converter={StaticResource DayConverter}}" />
                    </DataTemplate>
                </xCalendar:CalendarView.DayNameTemplate>

public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
        {
            var dia = (DayOfWeek) value;
            switch (dia)
            {
                case DayOfWeek.Sunday: return "Dom";
                case DayOfWeek.Monday: return "Seg";
                case DayOfWeek.Tuesday: return "Ter";
                case DayOfWeek.Wednesday: return "Qua";
                case DayOfWeek.Thursday: return "Qui";
                case DayOfWeek.Friday: return "Sex";
                case DayOfWeek.Saturday: return "Sab";
                default: return "";
            }
        }

[ME-MarvinE]

I always thought this was optional, but it seems that if x:DataType is not set on the DataTemplate, the converter won't be called at all.

Here's the example you used but with x:DataType:

Using xmlns:System="clr-namespace:System;assembly=System.Runtime"

<xCalendar:CalendarView.DayNameTemplate>
    <DataTemplate x:DataType="{x:Type System:DayOfWeek}">
        <Label Text="{Binding ., Mode=TwoWay, Converter={StaticResource DayConverter}}" />
    </DataTemplate>
</xc:CalendarView.DayNameTemplate>

{x:Type System:DayOfWeek} can also be written as System:DayOfWeek.

Hope this fixes your issue!

[ivanteles]

It was just that! Thank you!

[nandodefaria]

How to set the culture to pt-br so that the days of the week are in Portuguese?

Hi! Can you send me the files, to see how to implement it? Thanks

[ME-MarvinE]

I believe you change the value of either System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture or System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture to the Portuguese culture. I don't remember if you need to do this before instantiating your calendar.

System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("pt-br");