Calendar. This allows the user to select a day. As with the similar DatePicker control, we access the SelectedDate property. We use the SelectedDatesChanged event.
Get started. Drag a Calendar control the WPF window. Press tab and Visual Studio inserts the event handler (Calendar_SelectedDatesChanged). This runs when a date is selected.
Example code. In this C# method, we cast the "sender" object to a Calendar reference with an as-cast. The SelectedDate property returns a nullable DateTime.
And We use the HasValue property on the nullable type to determine whether the inner DateTime exists or not.
Then We get a reference to the DateTime indicated by the Calendar at this point. We call ToShortDateString on it.
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication21.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
<Grid>
<Calendar
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Margin="10,10,0,0"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
SelectedDatesChanged="Calendar_SelectedDatesChanged"/>
</Grid>
</Window>using System;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
namespace WpfApplication21
{
/// <summary>/// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml/// </summary>
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Calendar_SelectedDatesChanged(object sender,
SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
// ... Get reference.
var calendar = sender as Calendar;
// ... See if a date is selected.
if (calendar.SelectedDate.HasValue)
{
// ... Display SelectedDate in Title.
DateTime date = calendar.SelectedDate.Value;
this.Title = date.ToShortDateString();
}
}
}
}
Summary. The Calendar control displays a month-based calendar. One important event is SelectedDatesChanged—with it, we can detect when the user selects a day within the control.
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This page was last updated on Sep 27, 2022 (edit).
