the best way to draw a calendar in C#

[student1988]

Hi im trying to implement a calendar interface in my C# application but im not sure what the best way to draw the calendar is - i had a look at the form controls in visual C# 2005 and thought the datagridview might be a good start then populate it with events from an Xml file Another possible solution would be google calender but i couldnt find any help with drawing google calender in C# application and thier tutorial was about adding and manipultaing events using .NET cliet libraries. Does anyone have any ideas for this? i would appreciate any help Cheers

[Rob Philpott]

The DateTimePicker control does it all for you presuming your working with WinForms and not WebForms.

Regards, Rob Philpott.

[student1988]

Thanks for the reply, Rob. this is not what i im looking for though. i want to draw a calendar for a schedule and to have the days of the week displayed vertically and the time horizontally (similar to school timetable format) and then to populate this with shifts created in the program.

[musefan]

Personally I would handle the paint event for a panel and draw with the Graphics class, that way I can make it look anyway I want it to :)

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[Rob Philpott]

A bit like Outlooks Calendar feature? Sorry, got the wrong end of the stick. Two routes to what you want - either get a 3rd party control which does that sort of thing or roll your own. If you've not written a control like that before, its not a light undertaking!

Regards, Rob Philpott.

[student1988]

what do you mean by third party control? something like Google calendar API Cheers

[22over7]

You might want to have a look at: Month Calendar[^] and maybe: Calendar DayView Control[^] as well. There are demos and source code you can download and tweak should you wish. Hope this helps, and good luck.