Any Free Alternative to the ASP.net Calendar Control?

Question

Here are the problems I am having with the control from the factory:

• no easy way to get the first visible date (yeah I could use day render, but at that point in the page cycle, I can't do what I need to, which is manipulate a collection in viewstate)
• changing the visibledate property in my code does not raise the visiblemonthchanged event. That just doesn't make any sense to me.

Can someone suggest a free, improved calendar control?

Answer 1

jQuery datepicker:

example:

<input id='datepicker' class='datepicker' />

$(function(){
$(".datepicker").datepicker({ 
                          buttonImage: "/Content/img/calendar.gif", 
                          buttonImageOnly: true });
});

Answer 2

Free? No. But Peter Blum has a pretty decent calendar control for $90 for a server license.

It's a little awkward in my opinion, but its got a good UI and lot of options once you figure it out.

Answer 3

Greetings,

You could try the calender control from http://www.eworldui.net. I have used them without any issues and they are free to use.

Answer 4

Did you try looking at the calendar control in the AJAX control tool kit

Answer 5

With BaseCalendar you can call FirstVisibleDay to get the actual first rendered day. However, BaseCalendar works differently from the built-in calendar. It gives you full control over the HTML but doesn't rely / work with PostBacks like the built-in one does.