Creating the control designer

The control designer is a property editor, which allows you to configure the control in Sitefinity backend. In this section you create a multi view control designer for the date picker control. You create only one view for the designer - Limitations. It allows you to define a minimum and maximum date that users can select. For more information about creating control designers, see Working with control designers.

To create the control designer for the date picker, perform the following:

1. Defining the date picker designer view

2. Creating the template of the designer view

3. Referencing the template in the designer view

4. Implementing the features of the designer view

5. Creating the multi view designer

6. Assigning the designer to the date picker control