The selected value of CalendarExtender AjaxControlToolkit is null

Question

I try to get a date from CalendarExtender in two ways: one with an update and one without it, but it does not work. the value of this two calendar extenders is null.

This is strange because I can select a date from these extenders, and the text of the text fields is set to the selected date.

How to fix it?

<asp:UpdatePanel runat="server">
        <ContentTemplate>
        <asp:CalendarExtender ID="CalendarExtender1" runat="server" TargetControlID="tbPlannedStart"
        Format="d">
    </asp:CalendarExtender>
    <asp:TextBox ID="tbPlannedStart" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
        </ContentTemplate>
    </asp:UpdatePanel>

    <asp:CalendarExtender ID="CalendarExtender2" runat="server" TargetControlID="tbPlannedEnd"
        Format="d">
    </asp:CalendarExtender>
    <asp:TextBox ID="tbPlannedEnd" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>


 protected void btnAddProject_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var service = new Service1Client("WSHttpBinding_IService13");
            var project = new MyProject();

                project.PlannedEnd = CalendarExtender2.SelectedDate;
                project.PlannedStart = CalendarExtender1.SelectedDate;

                service.AddProject(project);

        }

Answer 1

He solved my problem:

project.PlannedEnd = System.Convert.ToDateTime(tbPlannedEnd.Text);
project.PlannedStart = System.Convert.ToDateTime(tbPlannedStart.Text);