Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

11.1. The Calendar

The Calendar control presents a miniature calendar that you can place in any web page. Like most rich controls, the Calendar can be programmed as a single object (and defined in a single simple tag), but it renders itself with dozens of lines of HTML output.

<asp:Calendar id="MyCalendar" runat="server" />

The Calendar control presents a single-month view, as shown in Figure 11-1. The user can navigate from month to month using the navigational arrows, at which point the page is posted back and ASP.NET automatically provides a new page with the correct month values. You don't need to write any additional event-handling code to manage this process. When the user clicks a date, the date becomes highlighted in a gray box (by default). ...