WPF Calendar Control

Introduction

Since WPF 4.0, Microsoft provides a full featured calendar control. It provides the following features:

• Set the displayed date
• Multiple selection modes
• Blackout dates
• Calendar Modes

Set the displayed date

The calendar displays by default the current date. But you can specify any other date to be displayed by setting the DisplayDate property.

 
<Calendar DisplayDate="01.01.2010" />
 
 

Selection Modes

The calendar control provides multiple modes for selection. You can set the SelectionMode property to SingleDateSingleRange, MultipleRanges or None.

 
<Calendar SelectionMode="MultipleRange" />
 
 

Blackout dates

The calendar control provides a feature to black out dates that are not valid for selection. You can define multiple ranges by setting the BlackoutDates property to one or multiple CalendarDateRange.

 
<Calendar SelectionMode="{Binding SelectedItem, ElementName=selectionmode}" >
    <Calendar.BlackoutDates>
        <CalendarDateRange Start="01/01/2010" End="01/06/2010" />
        <CalendarDateRange Start="05/01/2010" End="05/03/2010" />
    </Calendar.BlackoutDates>
</Calendar>
 
 

Calendar Modes

The calendar supports three modes to display ranges of dates: Year, Month and Decade. You can control the mode by setting the DisplayMode property.

 
<Calendar DisplayMode="Year" />