Calendar for ASP.NET AJAX

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Overview

Visit any travel or event booking website and you'll notice one key component: the Calendar. Providing such an interface is now effortless by using the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Calendar control as it plugs itself seamlessly in any system. Combining Date picker, Time picker and Date inputs the product offers a myriad of features. These include adjacent months preview, multi-month view, context menus, etc. Finally, its innovative rendering technique using CSS sprites grants swift loading times.

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Features

Extensive Client-Side Functionality

Telerik RadCalendar for ASP.NET AJAX exposes rich client-side API set which allows for easy and flexible use in a wide range of application scenarios. You can easily interact with the controls in the browser using their client-side objects. In addition to a variety of client-side events, the client-side object model lets you achieve complicated tasks while avoiding unnecessary post-backs.

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XHTML and Accessibility Standards Compliancy

The Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Calendar is completely compliant with the XHTML 1.1 requirements. The RadCalendar also follows Section 508 compliance and falls under the W3C Compliance Level “A”, as defined by the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0/2.0.
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Extensive VS.NET Design-time Support
Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Calendar provides rich design-time support functionality making customizations and configurations very easy. Some of the key capabilities are:
- Smart tag which allows easy access to frequently needed tasks.
- The Edit Templates link brings up the Template Design Surface, where you can design templates for the calendar header and footer sections.
- The Skin drop-down lets you select from a list of available skins to customize the look of your RadCalendar control.
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Customization Capabilities
The RadCalendar for ASP.NET AJAX provides a number of properties which lets you customize the appearance of its elements.
- Title Settings - You can customize the RadCalendar Title to define how and what information should be shown
- Navigation Buttons - You can enable or disable the navigation buttons in the title bar
- Column and Row headers - The column and row headers label the rows and columns of the main calendar area. In between the column and row headers, a view selector can optionally appear as well. You can control the appearance and behavior of each of these header sections separately.
- Day Matrix - By default the RadCalendar lays out its day matrix like an ordinary calendar, with seven columns (one for each day of the week) and six rows (the maximum number of weeks found in a month). The day matrix can be configured to display fourteen columns by three rows or twenty-one columns by two rows
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Multi-month View

RadCalendar can be easily configured to show more than one month in the calendar area. You can enable this functionality and specify the number of months to appear in each column and row.

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Selection Options

Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Calendar supports both single and multi-date selection. You can use the column and row buttons (days and weeks) to select blocks of dates. RadCalendar also supports read-only mode where you get the same visual appearance as a normal calendar without any response to user actions.

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Template Support

The ASP.NET AJAX Calendar by Telerik allows you to define a collection of dynamic templates that customize the presentation of calendar days on a per-day basis. The templates can contain regular HTML and are particularly useful if you want to implement a scheduler-like interface with extra information such as images illustrating events, links to additional sources, etc. The header and the footer areas of RadCalendar can also be completely customized using templates.
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Horizontal and Vertical Orientation

By default the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Calendar view renders the days horizontally row by row. However, it can also be configured to render the content vertically (i.e. column by column).

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Navigation and Keyboard Support

The ASP.NET AJAX Calendar control by Telerik provides three types of navigation which allow you to switch to new views (months). The calendar title bar can be configured with customizable buttons allowing you to jump to the previous or next month, skip a certain number of months backwards or forwards, or specify the month and year directly from a popup selector window. RadCalendar also provides support for Access Key and navigation using the Tab/Shift+Tab keys.

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Localization

Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Calendar supports all the cultures in the System.Globalization namespace that are based on the Gregorian calendar. Therefore you can control culture-related information such as language, country and region, calendars in use, format patterns for dates, currency, numbers, and sort order for strings.

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Appearance

Telerik ASP.NET Calendar is shipped with a rich set of skins that allow you to easily build slick interfaces with the look-and-feel of Windows 7, Office 2007, Outlook, etc. The skins can be easily switched using a single property. This significantly simplifies styling even for the most complex configurations.

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VS Plug-in for Testing RadControls

Telerik's automated software testing tool Test Studio employs a rich set of features to help you automate AJAX-intense web content. You can test complex UI actions like drag-and-drop, invoke JavaScript functions from your test code, and perform logging actions. Additionally, the test recorder makes it easy to wait on AJAX operations before executing a specific verification. What’s more, Test Studio is the best way to test RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. The powerful test recorder automatically detects the controls and exposes commonly used verifications. Learn more
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