Hi,


I've been attempting to modify the calendar example to have it automatically bring up a calendar based on the current date (instead of having to specify a specific date such as: 2004/01/26).

Here's a quick piece of code:

<asp:Calendar id="MyCalendar" runat="server"
            SelectedDate= "2004/01/26"
            VisibleDate= "2004/01/26"
            FirstDayOfWeek="Monday"
            ...

I've been attempting to use functions such as Date() and Now() in place of specified values, but I'm receiving a parser error stating that the functions are not valid values of DateTime.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My guess is that you need to use American dates. American dates are Month/Day/Year

in example - 01/26/2004 = January 26th, 2004.

Well, if I want to specify a date to bring up, using the format 2004/01/26 works just fine. What I'm trying to do is eliminate that entire string and have it bring up the calendar based upon system date.

Thus, instead of:
...
SelectedDate="2004/01/26"
VisibleDate="2004/01/26"
...

I want to use something like:
...
SelectedDate=Now()
VisibleDate=Now()
...

But I can't get the syntax quite right, and that's what I've been struggling with.

I can not believe that no one has answered your problem yet (I am assuming VB.NET). I am used to the Wrox chat groups being much faster than this?

On the page load sub routine, just put this in:

Dim dt As DateTime = DateTime.Now
Dim format As [String] = "yyyy/MM/dd"
Dim strDate As [String] = dt.ToString(format)

MyCalendar.SelectedDate = strDate

I was interested in your subject, because this is exactly why I came here, I tried to get the C# example to work, but I am getting an error on the:

MyCalendar.SelectedDate = strDate;

line. It says that it can not convert a string to date. So I tried a date, still did not work.

Hopefully someone can help????

Thanks for your help. That worked perfectly.

Well, as usual, you fix one problem and another arises. The calendar loads up with the correct date (i.e. it will show the calendar for February 2004), but the string below that lists if there are or are not events scheduled for that day, it gives a date of January 01, 0001. If I select a different date from that point, it works perfectly. If I try and go back to today's date (eg. February 2, 2004), it doesn't load up the events for that date.

Any ideas anyone?

roncalw,

I had the same problem myself. I was trying to get it to work in C#. An example of how to to this in VB and C# can be found at the following link...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sDateTopic.asp

PLease note that the C# example here did not work for me. I got errors about "ticks". So instead, I did the following which did work...

<script runat="server">
    void Page_Load(){
        Calendar1.SelectedDate = DateTime.Today;
        /*Calendar1.TodaysDate = Calendar1.SelectedDate;*/
    }
</script>

Good Luck,

--Phil