Highlight Weekend Dates in Calendar Control in ASP.NET

In this blog, I explained how to how to highlight a weekend days or a specific days in ASP.NET calender control.

Steps

• Create new ASP.NET Empty Web Application give it to meaning full name.
  
  
• Add new webfrom to your project.
  
  
• Drag and drop Calendar on your design page.
  
  
• Add two properties WeekendDayStyle-BackColor="Yellow", WeekendDayStyle-ForeColor="Black" to your calender control as shown below and run your application.

<asp:Calendar ID="Calendar1" runat="server"
WeekendDayStyle-BackColor="Yellow"
WeekendDayStyle-ForeColor="Green" ></asp:Calendar>

Output

 

 

You can achieve the same by using (OnDayRender event) code as mentioned below. Remove WeekendDayStyle-BackColor="Yellow", WeekendDayStyle-ForeColor="Green" from Calender control.

 

.aspx 

<asp:Calendar ID="Calendar1" runat="server" OnDayRender="Calendar1_DayRender"></asp:Calendar>

CodeBehind: 

protected void Calendar1_DayRender(object sender, DayRenderEventArgs e)
{
   if (e.Day.IsWeekend)
   {
      e.Cell.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Yellow;
      e.Cell.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
   }
}

If you want to Highlight on 'Monday' write the following code in Calendar1_DayRender event. It highlights the the specified day dates. 

if (e.Day.Date.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Monday)
{
   e.Cell.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Yellow;
   e.Cell.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
}

 

I hope you enjoyed it. Please provide your valuable suggestions and feedback.