Using the Calendar control in your application

The Calendar control, part of the System.Windows.Controls namespace, allows you to create a visual calendar in WPF applications. It allows you to select a date or a collection of dates. As it inherits from the Control class, all common properties and events from Control class are available to it.

In this recipe, we will learn more about Calendar control and how to use that.

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, let's create a WPF application project named CH02.CalendarDemo.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to add the basic controls to the main window:

1. Open the MainWindow.xaml page.
2. Inside the default Grid panel, add the tag <Calendar /> to create the basic calendar control in the application UI.
3. To retrieve the date selected by the user, register the SelectedDatesChanged event to it, as shown in the following code snippet:

<Grid Margin="10"> 
    <Calendar SelectedDatesChanged="OnSelectedDateChanged"  
      HorizontalAlignment...