date picker in web application

[SSN]

As datepicker control cannot be used in asp.net I wish to use a textbox instead of a calender , but the problem is I want the date to be entered by the clients in the "dd-MMM-yyyy" format. How do I do it? Any body can help me out of this? waiting for a quick reply. Thanks

[J a a n s]

Using javascript you can do this. Check the entered input is in the required format (by regular expression or so..). Alert the user if it is not. You can go for a javascript calendar control. That will be  helpful for the end user.

*jaans