ASP.NET offers a calendar control to show a calendar on a Web site. For example, ASP.NET Calendar Control shows a monthly calendar that lets users choose dates and move to the next month and months.
In this article, I will show you how to place ASP.NET calendar control inside GridView.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="CalInsideGridView.aspx.cs"
Inherits="CalInsideGridView" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="Server" AutoGenerateColumns="False">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="Title" HeaderText="Title" />
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Year">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="text1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Calendar ID="Cal1" runat="Server" OnSelectionChanged="Cal1_SelectionChanged"></asp:Calendar>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
public partial class CalInsideGridView : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!IsPostBack)
{
GridView1.DataSource = GetCustomMadeDataTable();
GridView1.DataBind();
}
}
public DataTable GetCustomMadeDataTable()
{
//Create a new DataTable object
System.Data.DataTable objDataTable = new System.Data.DataTable();
//Create three columns with string as their type
objDataTable.Columns.Add("ISBN", typeof(string));
objDataTable.Columns.Add("Title", typeof(string));
objDataTable.Columns.Add("Publisher", typeof(string));
objDataTable.Columns.Add("Year", typeof(string));
DataColumn[] dcPk = new DataColumn[1];
dcPk[0] = objDataTable.Columns["ISBN"];
objDataTable.PrimaryKey = dcPk;
objDataTable.Columns["ISBN"].AutoIncrement = true;
objDataTable.Columns["ISBN"].AutoIncrementSeed = 1;
//Adding some data in the rows of this DataTable
DataRow dr;
for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
{
dr = objDataTable.NewRow();
dr[1] = "Title" + i.ToString();
dr[2] = "Publisher" + i.ToString();
dr[3] = "12/12/200" + i.ToString();
objDataTable.Rows.Add(dr);
}
Session["strTemp"] = objDataTable;
return objDataTable;
}
protected void Cal1_SelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Calendar cal = (Calendar)sender;
TextBox text1 = (TextBox)((GridViewRow)cal.Parent.Parent).FindControl("text1");
text1.Text = cal.SelectedDate.ToShortDateString();
}
}