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The Calendar control initially appears to be like the native Calendar control provided with ASP.NET. But it goes in a new direction: client-side operation. The calendar fills in each month and manages the current selection using client side JavaScript that gives the user a faster, more interactive experience. It also means that you don’t require a post back just to select a date or change the month. Calendar can be included in your data entry forms and only post back when the user submits the form. That's just the start. Here are the features of this control.

Product Features

The extensive feature list is shown below. Test the features yourself in the Demos provided. This highly customizable control has well over 200 properties.

Appearance

• Style sheet driven – Most elements, whether they are days in the month, controls, or areas of the calendar, have unique style sheet names. With so many names, setup is made very easy by a supplied style sheet file which the control uses by default. You simply edit the style sheet file and the appearance quickly changes, all without editing a single property.
  You can also replace the graphic buttons.
  

  November 2024  Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7	November 2024  Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
  The default calendar.	The same calendar with alternative style sheet classes and different buttons.

  
  
• There are three ways to move to another month. The classic movement is by one month. You can add additional movement commands to jump by a number of months of your choosing, such as a year. Plus the user can popup the MonthYearPicker, a control that quickly gets you to any month in any year.
  
  

  

  November 2024 

  Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
  27	28	29	30	31	1	2
  3	4	5	6	7	8	9
  10	11	12	13	14	15	16
  17	18	19	20	21	22	23
  24	25	26	27	28	29	30
  1	2	3	4	5	6	7

    

  

  

  November 2024 

  

  

  Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
  27	28	29	30	31	1	2
  3	4	5	6	7	8	9
  10	11	12	13	14	15	16
  17	18	19	20	21	22	23
  24	25	26	27	28	29	30
  1	2	3	4	5	6	7

    

  

  

  November 2024 

  Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
  27	28	29	30	31	1	2
  3	4	5	6	7	8	9
  10	11	12	13	14	15	16
  17	18	19	20	21	22	23
  24	25	26	27	28	29	30
  1	2	3	4	5	6	7

  
  Click on the down arrow to the right of the year to see the MonthYearPicker.
  
  
   Deep Dive on Navigation   Deep Dive on the MonthYearPicker 
• You can show commands such as Select Today, Clear the calendar, and show the month with the selection in the footer. The footer can display of the selected date.
• Include a column of week numbers.
  
  

  

  November 2024 

  	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
  44	27	28	29	30	31	1	2
  45	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
  46	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
  47	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
  48	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
  49	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

  Today Clear Show

  Sat, Nov 23, 2024

  
  Command buttons and week numbers.
  
  
   Deep Dive on Commands     Deep Dive on the Current Date Label 
• Show multiple months. You can add up to 6 rows and columns of months.
  
  

  

  November 2024 - January 2025 

  November 2024 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

  December 2024 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

  January 2025 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

   Deep Dive on Multiple Months   
  
  
• There is a context menu available from a right click or an optional Help button shown in the header.
  These features require a license covering Peter's Interactive Pages module.
  
  

  

  

  November 2024 

  Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
  27	28	29	30	31	1	2
  3	4	5	6	7	8	9
  10	11	12	13	14	15	16
  17	18	19	20	21	22	23
  24	25	26	27	28	29	30
  1	2	3	4	5	6	7

  
  Right click to see the context menu.
  

   Deep Dive on ContextMenu and Help Button   
  
  
• Use the SpecialDates control to customize individual dates and make them unselectable. This very powerful tool can turn an ordinary calendar into a fancy schedule.
  
   Deep Dive on SpecialDates   
• On Internet Explorer, users can use their keyboards to select commands and move the selected date around.
• Days can optionally highlight with a different border and/or font color when the mouse passes over them.
• On Internet Explorer, there are two animations: when changing months, it rotates or swaps calendars. When opening or closing any popup, the control fades in and out.

Other Features

• Supports Databinding your date value to the control.
• Impose date range limits so the user is compelled to enter a date within the range. Dates outside the range are unselectable. The MonthYearPicker and the month movement buttons all respect these limits.
• All Peter's Date and Time controls use the System.Globalization.CultureInfo object to determine the extact format. So they are fully localizable.
• Optionally post back when the user changes the selection or the month viewed.
• ASP.NET 2.0 users can optionally use callbacks (AJAX type requests) to update the contents of the date cells when the month view changes.
• Can update another control through a client side script that you provide or even a simple ID to the other field, if that field is a Label or TextBox.
• Can be used as a popup when you select the PopupCalendar control.
• Javascript programmers can use several published methods to interact with the control.

Fancy Demo

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