How to set a Date ContentControl programatically

Question

Dear support team,I am trying to programmatically set a date contentcontrol in a word document using DocIO. Can you provide me how to achieve that? Does it make a difference between setting a Date InlineContentControl or a  Date BlockContentControl?Kind reg

Manikandan Ravichandran · Accepted Answer

Hi Strien,We have prepared the sample to achieve your requirement of adding Date content control in the Word document and the sample can be downloaded from the below link.https://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/forum/172555/ze/ConsoleAppBase_F172555728932183Please refer the below link to know more about date content control.https://help.syncfusion.com/file-formats/docio/working-with-content-controls#date-pickerPlease refer the below link to get difference between inline and block content controls.https://help.syncfusion.com/file-formats/docio/working-with-content-controls#what-is-content-control 




Block content control 

Inline content control 


One of the child entities of Paragraph like text range 

One of the child entity of Text body like paragraph, table 


Child entities of paragraph, can be added into inline content control.Example: Paragraph may have text range and inline content control and inline content control again may have another text range. 

Child entities of Text body can be added into block content control.Example: Text body may have tables, paragraphs and block content control and block content control again may have some tables and paragraphs. 
Regards,Manikandan Ravichandran

Block content control	Inline content control
One of the child entities of Paragraph like text range	One of the child entity of Text body like paragraph, table
Child entities of paragraph, can be added into inline content control. Example: Paragraph may have text range and inline content control and inline content control again may have another text range.	Child entities of Text body can be added into block content control. Example: Text body may have tables, paragraphs and block content control and block content control again may have some tables and paragraphs.