uwp CalendarDatePicker not binding to Date Property

Question

I'm triying to bind a DateTime from the ViewModel to a calendarDatePicker, but it doesn't work. i've tried in a textbox and works.

This part works:

<TextBox Text="{Binding MyDate}" ></TextBox>

And this doesn't:

<CalendarDatePicker Date="{Binding MyDate}" />

Answer 1

This question was previously answered here on MSDN.

Per the article, you could use a Converter to convert the binding to a DateTimeOffset. The converter may look something like the following, which comes from this post (referenced by the MSDN answer):

public class DateTimeToDateTimeOffsetConverter : IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, string language)
    {
        try
        {
            DateTime date = (DateTime)value;
            return new DateTimeOffset(date);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            return DateTimeOffset.MinValue;
        }
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, string language)
    {
        try
        {
            DateTimeOffset dto = (DateTimeOffset)value;
            return dto.DateTime;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            return DateTime.MinValue;
        }
    }
}