ASP.NET calendar drawing control

Question

I want to make a simple ASP.NET page that draws a months from a calendar and highlights given dates. (I'm not looking for a date picker.) What I have is a list of DateTime values and I need to display them a a nice way.

Given that I'm a total beginner with ASP, simpler really is better. (I'd rather not, I'm willing to hack together something with StringBuilder and <table> if it's easier).

p.s. I have no budget, so non-free controls will only be of use to other readers.

Answer 1

A client side option would be the jQuery calendar plugin

Answer 2

You can do this with the standard Calendar Control and use the DayRender event to format the individual days. I did something similar to this as my first ASP.Net application (a basic event scheduler) where the special dates were stored in a DB.

<asp:Calendar id = "objCalendar" runat = "server"
      onDayRender = "objCalendar_DayRender"
      Borderstyle = solid
      >

<%
    public void objCalendar_DayRender(object sender, DayRenderEventArgs e) 
    {

     CalendarDay d = ((DayRenderEventArgs)e).Day;

     string strCurrrentDayDisplay = GetDaySchedule(d.Date.ToShortDateString());

     TableCell c = ((DayRenderEventArgs)e).Cell;
     if (d.IsOtherMonth) 
     {
      c.Controls.Clear();
     }
     else 
     {
      try 
      {

       c.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<br>" + strCurrrentDayDisplay));
      }
      catch (Exception err) 
      {
       Response.Write (err.ToString());
      }
     }
     d.IsSelectable = false;
    }
%>

Answer 3

It may be too late for this project, but it sounds like BaseCalendar would work.