Overview

Telerik Calendar is a highly advanced date input control for Windows Forms. Combining Date picker and Date input, the product offers a myriad of features like adjacent months preview, multi-month view, date zooming, multi-day selection, globalization support, and powerful databinding. What is more, the control is fully skinnable, allowing for different customizations through the available themes, or your own predefined themes.

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Features

• Extended Behavior over the Standard Month Calendar Control
• Multiview Presentation
• Customizable Day Matrix
• Scrolling and Navigation
• Interactive Fish Eye Zooming Behavior
• Horizontal and Vertical Rendering
• Full Integration with Telerik's DatePicker Control
• Multiple Selection Options
• Template Support
• Support for System.Globalization Namespace
• Read-only Mode
• Appearance
• Keyboard Support
• Extensive VS.NET Design-time Support
• Right-to-Left Language Support

• Extended Behavior over the Standard Month Calendar Control

  Telerik Calendar supports all common features you would find in the standard Month Calendar control, such as first day of week, show today, special days, and show/hide week numbers, but adds several nifty features you will not find in the Visual Studio toolbox, such as focused date, show/hide week days, fish eye (date zoom functionality), read-only support, and show other month days. We went even further and extended the calendar functionality with footer support, controllable header/footer, fast navigation buttons, and full control over cell formatting (paddings, borders, margins, spacings, alignment, etc), making RadCalendar a feature-complete control with expected behavior, which your users will truly appreciate.
  
  

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• Multiview Presentation

  Telerik Calendar can be easily configured to show more than one month in the calendar area - a very handy feature when a range of dates has to be selected. This functionality is controlled with a couple of simple properties and gives you extra control over the UI.
  
  

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• Customizable Day Matrix

  Developers have complete control over the appearance of the day matrix, as it is not hardcoded to the usual 7x6 mode. By setting the FirstDayOfWeek and the days x rows matrix you can format the number of rows/columns in a MonthView. There is a maximum of 42 cells per MonthView.
  
   

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• Scrolling and Navigation

  Telerik Calendar provides three types of navigation, which allows you to switch and jump to new views (months):
  

  • Previous/next month - allows you to go to the pervious/next view (month) by clicking the "<" or ">" buttons (customizable);
  • Jump X months forward/backward - allows you to jump X views (months) forward or backward when you click the "<<" or ">>" buttons. The jump step is specified in the FastNavigationStep property;
  • Outlook-like quick navigation - allows to scroll to a month of your choice by pressing and holding the mouse over the month area:
    
    

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• Interactive Fish Eye Zooming Behavior

  When Fish Eye is enabled, pressing and holding a date with the mouse will zoom-in the date for extra interactivity. There are two properties which control that behavior: AllowFishEye, which enables/disables the fish eye, and ZoomFactor which determines the zooming proportion.
  
   

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• Horizontal and Vertical Rendering

  By default the Telerik Windows Forms Calendar renders the days horizontally row by row. However it can be configured to render the content vertically (i.e. column by column). Simply specify the orientation of the calendar by setting the Orientation property to either Horizontal or  Vertical.
  
  

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• Full Integration with Telerik's DatePicker Control

  RadDateTimePicker is a lightweight yet highly advanced date input control for Windows Forms. It integrates seamlessly with the Telerik Calendar control, to create a comprehensive date input interface. Users are able either to enter the date in the date picker or select it from the popup calendar. In both cases the values of the two controls will be synchronized to allow further change of the chosen date.
  
  

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• Multiple Selection Options

  For end-user's convenience, Telerik Windows Forms Calendar supports several intuitive selection options:
  

  • single-date selection by clicking on a date;
  • multi-date selection by either selecting each date with the mouse, or by using the mouse and the keyboard's Shift key to select all intermediate dates;
  • block of dates selection by pressing the column header (weekdays) and/or row header (week) buttons;
  • all visible days by using the ViewSelecter (X) to select/unselect all days.

  
  

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• Template Support

  A collection of dynamic templates can be used for achieving rich presentation of the calendar days. You can use this customization on a "per day" basis. It is especially useful if you want to implement a scheduler-like interface with additional information and images about events, links to various resources, etc. Other RadControls for WinForms are also supported in the template.
  
   

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• Support for System.Globalization Namespace

  The globalization namespace consists of classes, which contain culture-related information, such as language, country/region, calendars in use, format patterns for dates, currency, and numbers, and sort order for strings. They are useful classes for writing globalized (internationalized) applications. Telerik Calendar uses a Culture property for globalization/localization purposes.
  
  

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• Read-only Mode

  The Windows Forms Calendar control by Telerik supports Read-only mode where dates cannot be selected and months cannot be changed. This mode is controlled through the ReadOnly property.

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• Appearance

  The control is shipped with a rich set of themes that allow you to easily build slick interfaces with the look-and-feel of Windows Vista, Office 2007, Outlook, etc. The themes can be easily switched using a single property.

  In addition to the built-in themes, all RadControls for WinForms come with a feature we call Theme Color Blending, which allows for tweaking the color scheme of a theme, without the need to redo the theme from scratch. The updated color scheme is applied to all Telerik WinForms controls that you are using in your application for a fresh new look. Or you can build a new theme from scratch to fit your exact visual demands by using the Visual Style Builder productivity tool.

  

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• Keyboard Support

  Telerik Windows Forms Calendar supports the standard navigation paradigm. Users can tab across the form elements till they reach the calendar element. Then they can go over the individual days by using the arrow keys. A day can be selected by clicking the [Enter] or [Space] buttons. [PageUp] and [PageDown] move up/down between months, whereas [Home] and [End] navigate to the first/last day of the displayed month.

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• Extensive VS.NET Design-time Support

  Telerik Calendar provides rich design-time support functionality making customizations and configurations very easy. Some of the key capabilities are:

  • Managing shortcuts and images;
  • Applying themes in design time and easily switching between them - the Choose Theme command in the Smart tag automatically detects the present themes;
  • Visual Style Builder, Element Hierarchy Editor, and Shape Editor productivity tools for full control over the UI.

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• Right-to-Left Language Support

  Telerik Calendar provides full support for Right-to-Left languages. See Localization and Right-to-Left Support for the full list of Telerik Windows Forms controls supporting RTL languages and localization.

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