Best aproach for working with Time in WinForms?

Question

I'm trying to make a field where user will enter amount of time per day he/she spent on a project per day. It can be from 30 minutes to 8 hours. Is DateTimePicker with CustomFormat hh:mm best choice for this? Or there's better alternative for WinForms C#? Maybe TextBox or MaskedTextBox with special settings?

Answer 1

Although the MaskedTextBox is generally a pain, this is a situation it could be useful. With Mask="00:00". Give it a spin.

And you will have to convert to/from text to TimeSpan yourself

Answer 2

If you're comfortable with it, I would build a custom control for this. Maybe a read only textbox where I display the formatted time spent, and 2 buttons, one for up, one for down that looked something like the old VB updown control. I'd suggest adding a minimum, maximum, and up / down interval properties also. This should be an easy enough control to do and it would go a long way towards simplifying the user input.

Answer 3

How about a textfield with the format "7h 30m" (7 hours and 30 minutes)