Question : Allowing earlier dates in datetime picker control than 1753

I've spent the last hour searching on the web to find a way of allowing dates earlier than 1753 as the minimum date specified in the datetime picker control, but I couldn't find anything about it, or in the c# help files.

Due to the nature of the business, we need to record the construction date of properties, which could be anything as early as the year 1400!  My problem is that the datetime picker control I'm using only allows the minimum date of 01/01/1753.   How can I allow the datetime picker to allow dates earlier than this?

Answer : Allowing earlier dates in datetime picker control than 1753

set the mindate property

datetimepicker.Mindate = Datetime.Minvalue;
but the problem is if u are going to store this in sql then the min date there is 1753..any dates less tha this will thrw an error