Simplified Digital Clock for Silverlight

Another personal note to help me remember how to create a very simple digital clock in Silverlight. Posted if other people are working on a simple clock and don't want to write a lot of code.

Got most of the code from this CodeProject Post.

This is creating a very simple clock display using TextBlocks.

There are four TextBlocks - each are named

1. ClockDay

2. ClockMonth

3.ClockYear

4. ClockTime

In order for the required commands to work, you need the following statements at the very top of the C# codebehind:

using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Threading;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;

Once those are called, then just setting up the actual codebehind

namespace MyClockApp

{

   public partial class MyDigitalClockDisplay : UserControl

   {

      public MyDigitalClockDisplay()

      {

         InitializeComponent();

         this.LayoutRoot.DataContext = this; // I had other items with bindings on this control

        StartTimer()

      }

   

   private void StartTimer()

   {

      DispatcherTimer myDispatcherTimer = new DispatcherTimer()

      myDispatcherTimer.Interval = new TimerSpan(0,0,1);

      myDispatcherTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(Each_Tick);

      myDispatcherTimer.Start();

    }

   private void Each_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)

   {

     // A listing of the different string formats for the DateTime are defined on this Microsoft Page.

      ClockDay.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd");

      ClockMonth.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM");

     ClockYear.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy");

      ClockTime.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm:ss");

}

}

}

Below is an image showing the layout I used and which TextBlock was used for each of the values.