MonthCalendar range spanning months

Hi John,

Currently, the MonthCalendar will allow you to select a range that spans months if you use Shift+Page Up/Down. If you using the next/previous arrows in the calendar title bar, however it will not allow you to extend the current selection. It effectively, moves the "anchor" up 1 month.

We've updated the MonthCalendar, so that if you hold down Shift while clicking the next/previous arrows it will not move the "anchor" date. So as long as you hold down Shift, you can navigate around the MonthCalendar and keep the same "anchor" date. This includes when pressing the "Today" button/link, and when zooming out to the year/decade/century views and drilling back in. This change only applies if you are using the Extended or Range selection modes.

Is there a reason why you want to move the anchor date? As far as I can tell the calendar in the Windows 7 Explorer does not work this way and seems to work exactly how I would expect. I'm pretty sure my users would not know to hold down shift when clicking next/previous if I never thought of doing so.

Hi John,

We've updated it work more like the Windows Explorer calendar's range selection. So the "anchor" date changes when you click a day without holding down shift. Then as long as you hold shift when clicking another date, it will simply update the range from the previous anchor.

Fantastic. Will this be included in the next maintenance release?

Hi John,

It will be included in WPF Studio 2010.2, which is due out sometime in September.