Using Visual Basic 2008 in VS2008

I am looking for a way to extend the existing MonthCalendar to allow me to
control the color of the Bolded Dates.

I have found some examples on the web, for custom calendar controls, but the
code is either incomplete, or does not accomplish what I would like to do,
meaning that it is missing features of the existing MonthCalendar that I
would like to keep using, namely the dimentions, 4x3 for exampe to display a
whole year.

Basically, what I want to do, is add a property to the Date in the
collection of BoldedDates, that controls the Font color of the bolded date.

THanks
J

Hi,

The MonthCalender control doesn't provide such a property or method to
control the fore color of the bolded dates. To get what you want, you have
to draw the bolded dates by yourself. To do this, set the UserPaint style
to true and handle the Paint event or override the OnPaint method. However,
the problem is that in this case we must draw the entire calendar from
scratch by ourselves which needs much efforts.

I search the Internet and found a blog article introducing a workaround to
custom draw the MonthCalendar. The idea is to let OS draw the MonthCalendar
and then draw what we want on top of that.

In detail, Place the code to custom draw the bolded dates in the OnPaint
method and then capture the WM_PAINT message in the override WndProc method
and call the OnPaint method explicitly.

For more information, please refer to the following link:
"Modifying the Windows Forms MonthCalendar control"
http://nickeandersson.blogs.com/blog...ying_the_.html

Hope this gets you started.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
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Hi Linda,

This question is placed twice in the newsgroup. One is done by Zhi-Xin Ye
and the other by you.
In my Windows mail client I see them above each other.

Cor

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> I am reviewing this post in the newsgroup and would like to know the
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Thank Cor for the reminding!

Using Windows Mail client, I only find another post from this customer with
the title "MonthCalendar" in the microsoft.public.dotnet.general newsgroup
and the customer asked a different question in that post.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

Linda,

Sorry I saw then as one problem.

Cor

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> Thank Cor for the reminding!
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> Using Windows Mail client, I only find another post from this customer
> with
> the title "MonthCalendar" in the microsoft.public.dotnet.general newsgroup
> and the customer asked a different question in that post.
>
> Sincerely,
> Linda Liu
> Microsoft Online Community Support
>