October 22, 2007

Theming the AjaxControlToolkit's Calendar Control

The calendar control that my team is using in our current web application is terrible for three reasons: it is ugly.  Viewing the control reminds me of the first time I went back to Window's 95 after having upgraded to XP it opens the calendar control in a new browser instance (something our users hate) it has a lot of supporting, custom JavaScript that has had its fair share of bugs If I am not mistaken, somehow the control survived the port from classic ASP to ASP.NET 1.1 and then again from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0.  I have no idea where the control orignally came from, but it is time to get rid of it. Live Demo (IE6, IE7, FF) | Download So my latest research tasks was to look into replacing this legacy control with something a little hipper.  I took a look at the AjaxControlToolkit's Calendar control to see if it was something we could use.  Sure enough...

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