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Hello , how to use Calendar control in C# for windows Application,im not Asking about "MonthCalendar".
And I was watching some videos they use calendar control in the toolbox ,but in my visual studio 2013 in toolbox there' no calendar control .please help.

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So I did some quick Googling real quick, from what I can tell, the Calender control is designed for System.Web.UI, not System.Windows.Form which is what you'd be using for a Windows Form design. It looks like, the MonthCalender is the WindowsForm equivalent of the Calender

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so u mean that i cant use calendar control in desktop application ?

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i cant use calendar control

Correct. You can't use THAT one. There are many third party calendars available, there has to be one that will suit your needs.

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There are many third party calendars available, there has to be one that will suit your needs.

for example ? can u please which calendar use?

I'm working on desktop application (Doctor appointment) I want to show calendar for example : patient have an appointment of 16 Jan 2016 so I want in calendar 16 Jan cell written a text appointment when I click on that cell popup or something like message box to show me how many appointments I have in 16 Jan 2016 .

I'm not asking for code just give some example or idea's, please . and also, tell me which calendar I should use.

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He meant more there are libraries out there, external to .NET's default collection you get when you install it, that could provide what you are looking for. I would suggest just googling around.

For instance, here is one I found just googling "C# Library Calender"
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/168662/Time-Period-Library-for-NET

If you were really ambitious, you could create your own, however, notice I said ambitious, as this wouldn't be a quick coding job (you'd probably use like a TableLayoutPanel, and then create panels for cells. Or you could try a DataGridView, and then have events related to cell clicking).

Usually when I build custom controls like this, they take time as I want to make something rather robust so I could use it in the future (they can take me hours and hours as I write my own events amoung other things)

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