CalendarExtender, MaskedEditExtender, and MaskedEditValidator

Hi all,

I have this fiddly situation where I have a MaskedEditExtender to give me a date mask on a TextBox, and a MaskedEditValidator to give the user feedback if the date is invalid - empty is allowed. I also have a CalendarExtender on this TextBox so the user doesn't have to type. I have two things to note:

When you set "ClearMaskOnLostFocus" of the extended TextBox properties, the CalendarExtender doesn't work - you can set the date, but when you click away to hide the calendar, it also resets the mask and the TextBox content.When you do not have "ClearMaskOnFocus" set, allow empty values, click in the TextBox (to bring up the input mask), and click out again - the input mask remains and any validation message you attached to the MaskedEditValidator now appears - this goes against what I expect to be correct, as the TextBox is empty.

The third problem that I won't number is that the two problems are exacerbated by the CalendarExtender, without that only the second problem would persist, which could furthermore be solved by setting "ClearMaskOnLostFocus". I haven't tested what happens to the TextBox and its values etc in any other situation.

Has anyone else encountered this issue?

Temporarily, does anyone have a work around? I require the calendar object to give the user a mouse option, and need a basic input mask toat leastblock out alphabetic characters and format the date in dd/MM/yyyy format.

Thanks in advance!

Apologies, I appear to have double posted - use the other one :)