WinForms Calendar Control | Windows Forms

Overview

The WinForms Calendar control allows users to easily select one or more dates. It provides multiple views of the month, year, decade, and century so that dates can be selected easily. There is also an option to navigate between different sets of date range in the same view. The calendar control provides easy date selection through keyboard, mouse, and touch interaction. There is support for multiple date selection, highlighting special dates, and complete customization option.

Key features

Calendar views

Option to navigate and quickly select dates with an intuitive user interface to access a different month, year, decade, and century views.

Windows Forms calendar minimum and maximum date range

Date range

Prevents users from selecting dates outside a specified range.

Date range documentation

Windows Forms calendar single/ multiple dates selection

Selection

Allows selection of a single or range of dates through keyboard, mouse, and touch interaction. Customization for appearance of selected dates also supported.

Selection documentation

Windows Forms calendar navigation to year, decade view

The WinForms Calendar provides efficient navigation support to different sets of date range and different views through scrolling, touching, or clicking the calendar header.

Navigation documentation

Windows Forms calendar globalization and localization

Globalization and Localization

The WinForms Calendar supports localized first day of the week and day names based on culture. Every static text in the calendar can be localized to any desired language.

Globalization and Localization documentation

Windows Forms calendar special dates

Special dates

The WinForms Calendar supports highlighting special dates with icons and descriptions. Customization of icon and text position in special dates also supported.

Windows Forms calendar blackout dates

Blackout dates

Ability to block certain dates from selection and user interaction. Separate styles can be applied to blackout dates.

Appearance

Each individual cell appearance in calendar can be customized by changing the font, background, foreground, and border color. The WinForms Calendar control also allows change of text and customization of appearance of a date cell on demand.

Appearance documentation

Frequently Asked Questions

✅ Why should you choose Syncfusion WinForms Calendar?

The Syncfusion WinForms Calendar provides the following:

Easy date selection with interactive navigation using keyboard, mouse, and touch interactions.
Prevent users from selecting dates outside a specified range.
Supports multiple date selection, special dates, and blackout dates.
Each individual cell’s appearance in the calendar can be customized by changing the font, background, foreground, and border color.
Navigate and select dates quickly with an intuitive user interface to access month, year, decade, and century views.
Touch friendly and responsive.
One of the best WinForms Calendars in the market that offers a feature-rich UI.
Extensive demos and documentation to learn quickly and get started with WinForms Calendar.

✅ Where can I find the Syncfusion WinForms Calendar demo?

You can find our WinForms Calendar demo on

GitHub location.

✅ Can I download and utilize the Syncfusion WinForms Calendar for free?

No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue and five or fewer developers.

✅ How do I get started with Syncfusion WinForms Calendar?

A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.

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