Exontrol.ExCalendar - Information, Features

The ExCalendar Library offers two versatile components—a standard calendar and a drop-down version—designed to provide a modern and intuitive date selection experience. With support for a wide date range (from 1/1/0100 to 12/31/9999), ExCalendar enables seamless date input through a highly customizable user interface. Both versions support rich visual customization, including images, colors, font styles, and multi-line tooltips for any specific date. The library also features full skinning capabilities using EBN technology, allowing developers to apply visual themes that enhance appearance without compromising usability. Skins can be easily defined and applied to any part of the control, ensuring consistent and attractive integration into your application's UI.

Features include:

1. Visual & Customization Features

Skinnable Interface Support (ability to apply a skin to any background part)
Unlimited options to show any colors, icons, captions on any date
Easy way to define the control's visual appearance in design mode, using XP-Theme elements or EBN objects
Flat or 3D appearance
Color, font attributes, images, markers for any date
Multi-lines HTML tooltip support
Ability to load icons from BASE64 encoded strings
Supports BMP, EMF, EXIF, GIF, ICON, JPEG, PNG, TIFF or WMF formats on dates or on the control's background

2. Calendar Functionality

ISO8601 compatible
Repetitive-events support (RFC 5545)
DATE and TIME editing support
Single or multiple months in the client area
Single or multiple selection
Ability to limit the date being displayed and selected
Easy way to scroll to next/previous month, change year, and select date via a simple click
Date spinner support, for the dropdown version

3. Integration & Usage

Simple and dropdown versions
Auto size or fixed size
Customize data format for drop-down version
Easy way to load/save the event date collection
Supports multiple languages

4. Additional Features

Print and Print Preview support