MS Calendar Control is a very convenient visual tool to display or choose a date including year, month, calendar day, and day of week.It is visible both at design time and at run time. Users might customize this control in many ways by combining its properties. The basic properties are given in Table 1. You can use the methods, events, and properties of the Calendar control to:
- Display a calendar for any month of any given year.
- Store a date selected by the user in the current record.
- Trigger an action from an event based on the current date value.
Property |
Description |
| progID | MSacal70.ocx |
| ClassID | 8E27C92B-1264-101C-8A2F-040224009C02 |
| Backcolor | Background color |
| Day | Set or return a day |
| DayFont | Set or return a font to display day |
| DayFontColor | Set or return a color for day font |
| FirstDay | Set or return a first day for the DAY OF WEEK colomn |
| GridCellEffect | 2 is for 3D, 1 is for plane appearance of grid |
| GridFont | Set or return a font for grid cell |
| GridFontColor | Set or return a color for grid font |
| Height | Height of control |
| month | Set or return a month |
| ShowDateSelector | Turn on or off the date selector (true- on, false- off) |
| ShowDay | Turn on or off the Day (true- on, false- off) |
| ShowTitle | Turn on or off the Title (true- on, false- off) |
| Year | Set or return an year |
| Width | Width of control |
As a developer, you can use the methods associated with a custom control to manipulate that control. For example, you can use the Refresh method of the Calendar control to repaint the calendar. You can use the events associated with a control to update the control or to synchronize the control with a selected record, section, or environment. For example, you can use the Click event for the Calendar control to start a procedure that retrieves the specified date and sets the value of a control on
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