Calendar

The ASP Calendar control is a rich web control that provides several capabilities:

  • Displays a calendar showing a single month

  • Allows the user to select a day, week, or month

  • Allows the user to select a range of days

  • Allows the user to move to the next or previous month

  • Programmatically controls the display of specific days

The Calendar control is customizable, with various properties and events. Before digging into all the detail, look at a bare bones .aspx file showing a simple Calendar control, along with the resulting web page. Create a new web site called Calendar-Simple, and drag a Calendar control onto the page.

Example 5-16 contains the code with the Calendar declaration highlighted, and Figure 5-14 shows the results. There is no code-behind file with this example other than the default boilerplate created by VS2005.

Example 5-16. Default.aspx for Calendar-Simple

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"  CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs"
   Inherits="_Default" %>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Calendar - Simple</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
      <h1>Calendar Control</h1>
      <h2>Default Calendar</h2>

       <asp:Calendar ID="Calendar1" runat="server"></asp:Calendar>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
A default Calendar control

Figure 5-14. A default Calendar ...

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