---
title: "Building a Hijri Calendar with .NET MAUI Scheduler: A Beginner’s Guide"
published_at: "2023-03-28T11:16:30+00:00"
modified_at: "2025-03-21T09:08:24+00:00"
url: "https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/building-a-hijri-calendar-with-net-maui-scheduler-a-beginners-guide"
excerpt: "This blog explains how to create a Hijri calendar using the Syncfusion .NET MAUI Scheduler control with code examples."
taxonomy_category:
- ".NET MAUI"
- "Desktop"
- "Mobile"
- "Scheduler"
taxonomy_post_tag:
- ".NET MAUI"
- "desktop"
- "MAUI"
- "Mobile"
- "Scheduler"
---
# Building a Hijri Calendar with .NET MAUI Scheduler: A Beginner’s Guide
[Jeyasri Murugan](https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/author/jeyasrim)
Calendars differ from country to country. Many different calendar types are used worldwide based on cultural or religious traditions.
The Syncfusion [.NET MAUI Scheduler](https://www.syncfusion.com/maui-controls/maui-scheduler)
supports scheduling, managing, and efficiently representing appointments. It was redesigned with a clean and convenient user interface for custom working days and hours and basic calendar operations such as date navigation and selection.
It supports creating the following types of calendars with ease:
- Gregorian (default)
- Hebrew
- Hijri
- Korean
- Taiwanese
- Thai Buddhist
- UmAlQura
- Persian
- Japanese
In this blog, we’ll see how to create and customize a Hijri calendar using the features of the .NET MAUI Scheduler control.
**Note:** Before proceeding, please read the getting started with [.NET MAUI Scheduler documentation](https://help.syncfusion.com/maui/scheduler/getting-started)
.
## Creating a Hijri calendar
The [Islamic or Hijri calendar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar)
is a lunar calendar with 12 months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
We can easily create a Hijri calendar by setting **Hijri** as the value for the .NET MAUI Scheduler’s [CalendarType](https://help.syncfusion.com/cr/maui/Syncfusion.Maui.Scheduler.SfScheduler.html#Syncfusion_Maui_Scheduler_SfScheduler_CalendarType)
property. Refer to the following code example.
```
xmlns:scheduler="clr-namespace:Syncfusion.Maui.Scheduler;assembly=Syncfusion.Maui.Scheduler"
```
Creating a Hijri calendar using the .NET MAUI Scheduler
## Customizing the Hijri calendar
We have seen how to create a Hijri calendar with ease. Let’s see how to customize it using the features of the .NET MAUI Scheduler.
### Use various views
The .NET MAUI Scheduler dates are displayed based on the **calendar type**. It provides eight types of views (day, week, workweek, month, timeline day, timeline week, timeline workweek, and timeline month) to display dates.
You can change the Scheduler view using the [View](https://help.syncfusion.com/cr/maui/Syncfusion.Maui.Scheduler.SfScheduler.html#Syncfusion_Maui_Scheduler_SfScheduler_View)
property. Refer to the following code example.
```
```
Hijri calendar with month view
### Change the first day of the week
The Scheduler is rendered with **Sunday** as the first day of the week by default. We can change this using the [FirstDayOfWeek](https://help.syncfusion.com/cr/maui/Syncfusion.Maui.Scheduler.SfScheduler.html#Syncfusion_Maui_Scheduler_SfScheduler_FirstDayOfWeek)
property.
Refer to the following code example.
```
```
Changing the first day of the week in the Hijri calendar
### Create appointments
You can easily [add appointments](https://help.syncfusion.com/maui/scheduler/appointments)
to the Hijri calendar in the following ways:
- Create appointments with start and end time values by declaring the **Hijri**** calendar** and the relevant ** Hijri**** calendar date**.``` var appointments = new ObservableCollection { // Adding schedulean appointment in the schedule appointment collection. new SchedulerAppointment() { Subject = "Meeting", // StartTime and EndTime valuevalues specified with calendar type and respective calendar date. StartTime = new DateTime(1444, 08, 8, 10, 0, 0, new HijriCalendar()), EndTime = new DateTime(1444, 08, 8, 11, 0, 0, new HijriCalendar()), }, }; // Adding the scheduler appointments to the ItemsSource. scheduler.AppointmentsSource = appointments; ```
- Create an appointment with start and end time values by declaring a local system date. In this case, the system date will be converted to the relevant **Hijri Calendar**.``` var appointments = new ObservableCollection { new SchedulerAppointment() { Subject = "Meeting", // StartTime and EndTime values specified with the local system date will be converted to the Hijri calendar mentioned. StartTime = new DateTime(2023, 02, 28, 11, 0, 0, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2023, 02, 28, 12, 0, 0, 0), } }; // Adding the scheduler appointments to the ItemsSource. scheduler.AppointmentsSource = appointments; ```
Adding appointments to the Hijri calendar
### Group resources
You can group appointments based on their [resources](https://help.syncfusion.com/maui/scheduler/resource-view)
in the **timeline day**, ** week**, ** workweek**, and ** month** views.
Refer to the following code example.
```
scheduler.View = SchedulerView.TimelineWeek;
List resources = new();
SchedulerResource employees = new();
employees.Name = "Sophia";
employees.Foreground = Colors.White;
employees.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb("#FF8B1FA9"));
employees.Id = 1;
resources.Add(employees);
scheduler.ResourceView.Resources = resources;
```
Grouping resources in the Hijri calendar
### Associate appointments to resources
Associate resources with appointments by assigning the [IDs](https://help.syncfusion.com/cr/maui/Syncfusion.Maui.Scheduler.SchedulerResource.html#Syncfusion_Maui_Scheduler_SchedulerResource_Id)
of the resources in the [ResourceView](https://help.syncfusion.com/cr/maui/Syncfusion.Maui.Scheduler.SfScheduler.html#Syncfusion_Maui_Scheduler_SfScheduler_ResourceView)
to the [ResourceIds](https://help.syncfusion.com/cr/maui/Syncfusion.Maui.Scheduler.SchedulerRegionBase.html#Syncfusion_Maui_Scheduler_SchedulerRegionBase_ResourceIds)
property of the scheduled appointment.
Refer to the following code example.
```
List tasks = new();
tasks.Add(new SchedulerAppointment()
{
Subject = "Conference",
// StartTime and EndTime values specified with calendar type and calendar date.
StartTime = new DateTime(1444, 08, 8, 10, 0, 0, new HijriCalendar()),
EndTime = new DateTime(1444, 08, 8, 11, 0, 0, new HijriCalendar()),
ResourceIds = new ObservableCollection