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JSCalendar Custom Control for Visual Studio .NET

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2 Oct 2005CPOL1 min read 2   2.1K  
Creating a custom control for JSCalendar.

Sample Image - jscalendar.jpg

Introduction

JSCalendar is one of the powerful JavaScript calendars, you can download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/jscalendar/.

JSCalendar can be used to add to date input fields a button that lets the user choose a date using a pop-up calendar. The control will allow you to add this calendar to your ASP.NET pages without configuring the JavaScript code.

How to use the control

  1. Download the file DLL.Zip
  2. Unzip the file to Calendar.dll
  3. Open Visual Studio .NET
  4. Right click on the toolbox then click Add/Remove Item
  5. Image 2

  6. From the Customize Tool Box window, click Browse, and select the DLL file (Calendar.Dll)
  7. Image 3

  8. The control will be added to your toolbox:
  9. Sample Image - jscalendar.jpg

  10. Create a new ASP.NET project, then drag and drop the calendar control to your form.
  11. From the Properties window you can set the path of the scripts file (the scripts file must be included in the same project and you can download it from  http://sourceforge.net/projects/jscalendar/).
  12. Also you can specify the path of the calendar image and the format for date.

Setting up the scripts

Scripts files are downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/projects/jscalendar/

  • Download the zip file for the calendar
  • Unzip the file to folder /JSCalendar in your application
  • In the properties of your control, type “/jscalendar”

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)