I've been out of this for a bit. Can someone give me a small example of using the smart date so that the datetimepicker can be blank until someone sets a date (vb please).
Thanks in advance.
I assume you are using Windows Forms?
Have a look at the SmartDateTimePicker custom UI control in CslaContrib.
It is written in C# but and may be compiled into a separate assembly and used as-is in your VB project or use one of the online translators to transform from C# to VB.NET.
There are other very useful components there as well - such as:
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