ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

One of the samples in the Microsoft Press server control book is that calendar picker that you see on Expedia. You can download the source on microsoft's site somewhere.

Friday, November 21, 2003 4:17 AM by Jesse Ezell

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

For the calendar control, I use that one :
http://students.infoiasi.ro/~mishoo/site/calendar.epl

Friday, November 21, 2003 5:29 AM by Julien CHEYSSIAL

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

I use a version of the MSPress one, only problem is that it's a bit US specific, you have to do a bit of fiddling to get it to work with other cultures. It is pretty good though! YOu can get all the source for controls in the book (including a snazzy Html Editor) here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/MSPressPub/5728/1.0/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/DevASPNET.exe

Friday, November 21, 2003 5:44 AM by Scott Galloway

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

Thinking about Peter's one, I'm surprised he doesn't use an approach like Andy Smith's where you can store all the JS in a .res file (and of course compile the images into the assembly)...

Friday, November 21, 2003 5:46 AM by Scott Galloway

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

The MSPress one has a small bug in its htc: displays 28 days for March if it's not a leap year. I always thought it would be a good idea to create an internationalized version (date formats, month & day of week names from current culture). But haven't got round to it yet. If you've already done this it might be nice to post it.

Friday, November 21, 2003 6:33 AM by Me

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

You may be interested in my package of controls, there the right price too...free... http://www.excentricsworld.com

Friday, November 21, 2003 7:34 AM by Matt Hawley

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

I'm actually looking at Matt Hawley's as well, just this moment. The demo is: http://www.excentricsworld.com/calpopup.aspx

It looks quite nice. Nice work Matt.

Friday, November 21, 2003 11:37 AM by Pete Davis

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

Must be self-contained.

Why?

Friday, November 21, 2003 2:30 PM by Johnny Hall

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

Self contained is important to me for 3 reasons:

1) Least important first - Easy to use. MS controls can be dropped onto a WinForm / WebForm and used; why should I have to read a readme.txt, make web.config settings, copy js files to a folder, etc., for someone else's controls.

2) Easy to deploy - especially important when there are several developers on a project with development environments, an integration environment, multipe servers in QA and Production webfarms, etc. 5 or 10 minutes of setup / install time may not sound like much, but multiply that by all affected servers, developers, and administrators, and it often costs much more than the actual component.

3) Not fragile - the more complex the install, the more likely the app will break, especially during an upgrade (see Rob's post I referred to above), a .NET framework upgrade, a service pack or security patch, etc. Why ask for trouble?

Saturday, November 22, 2003 2:25 AM by Jon Galloway

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

Matt - I've downloaded your control and think it will do the trick. Very nice documentation and designer: http://www.excentricsworld.com/calpopup.aspx

Saturday, November 22, 2003 2:33 AM by Jon Galloway

# Fantastic Web 'Widgets'

Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:42 AM by TrackBack

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

Jon Galloway,

Could you take a look at your page at www.excentricsworld.com/calpopup.aspx

I think it's broken. I would be nice to see how it looks like in the page. I would like to use the control in my project, but I would like to know if you experienced any problem using it? I like the control because I can change the year easily, but I don't want to have something that's difficult to maintain.

Friday, January 09, 2004 2:41 AM by Min Kuan

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

Sure enough, looks like Matt's restructured his website so my link's broken.

The updated link is:
http://www.excentricsworld.com/CustomControls/CalendarPopup.aspx

To be honest, I evaluated the popup calendar and it looked perfect for a project I was working on. Then the project was cancelled. So I've tested it pretty will in development, but don't have production experience with it. That said, it looks very professionally written and I don't think it would give you any maintenance problems.

Friday, January 09, 2004 2:52 AM by Jon Galloway

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

Thank you for the kind comments. This control (and the others) have been in production environments for quite some time all around the world. We use it in several apps at work, and it makes it real nice & easy for date selection.

Monday, January 19, 2004 10:47 AM by Matt Hawley

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

Jon: Did you ever get an answer to your Wizard question? You may find this article helpful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/ASPNet-FiniteStateMachines.asp

Sunday, March 07, 2004 2:26 AM by Phil Weber

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

People, how can I download the calendar control at http://www.excentricsworld.com/CustomControls/CalendarPopup.aspx.

I have been trying for a few days now, and when I submit the download form, the page just times out after quite a while...

HELP!?!?!?

Monday, May 03, 2004 2:12 PM by Mike Smit

# re: ASP.NET Popup Calendar / Wizard Recommendations?

Mike -
They're Matt Hawley's controls, not mine, so he's your best bet for answers. I just downloaded with no trouble. You can contact me through the blog contact form (http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/contact.aspx) with your e-mail and I can send you the latest code from from the site if download won't work for you.
- Jon

Monday, May 03, 2004 4:31 PM by Jon Galloway