ASP Calendar Server Control

Word calendar makes user to select any date in the history so Microsoft introduced a control named Calendar server control you need to drag and drop control that’s it. A calendar appears on your web page which user can select any date in the history. A typical Calendar control is constructed as shown below.

<asp:Calendar ID="cldControl" runat="server"></asp:Calendar>



Above calendar control is a simple default one you can use some CSS styles or you can get some default designs from this control.

Right click on Calendar control and you see SHOW SMART TAG option



Check that and you see a small window at the top of your Calendar control



Select Auto format then you can select any default style you want sample selection is shown below Press OK.



Selecting a single day in the Calendar control

When user selects the date i am using a label control to display the date.



.aspx

<asp:Calendar ID="cldControl" runat="server"
OnSelectionChanged="cldControl_SelectionChanged" />
<asp:Label ID="lblDisplayDate" runat="server" />

.cs

protected void cldControl_SelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
lblDisplayDate.Text = "You have selected " + cldControl.SelectedDate.ToShortDateString();
}

Selecting whole week or whole month

In this case we use SELECTIONMODE property where you see four option to select Day, DayWeek, DayWeekMonth, None.

None – only readonly calendars use this option

So lets see DayWeekMonth in this below example.



.aspx

<asp:Calendar ID="cldControl" runat="server" SelectionMode="DayWeekMonth"
OnSelectionChanged="cldControl_SelectionChanged" />
<asp:Label ID="lblDisplayDate" runat="server" />

.cs

protected void cldControl_SelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
lblDisplayDate.Text = "You have selected <br/>";

for (int i = 0; i < cldControl.SelectedDates.Count; i++)
{
lblDisplayDate.Text += cldControl.SelectedDates[i].ToShortDateString() + "<br/>";
}
}

That’s it a small post with examples on Calendar control. Thankyou for reading the post.

Emmaneale Mendu
Web Developer