The HolidayProviders classes can supply information about some of the predefined holidays in specific cultures but if you want to change the visualization or the behavior of the Calendar control based on this information you need to do it manually. You can check the Holidays sample to see how you can modify the appearance of selected dates. In addition, in order to prevent the users from creating items in those days, you can handle the ItemModifying and ItemCreating events and perform the required validations.

Let me know if this helps.

Regards,
Meppy

In order to change the appearance of individual days in a MonthRange view you can use custom drawing (but set Calendar.CustomDraw to CellHeader | CellContents). An easier approach would be to define custom style for a day or a range of days. The following sample code illustrates how:

DateStyle dateStyle = new DateStyle();
dateStyle.From = new System.DateTime(2011, 6, 1);
dateStyle.To = new System.DateTime(2011, 6, 1);
dateStyle.Style = new Style();
dateStyle.Style.Brush = new MindFusion.Drawing.SolidBrush(Color.Red);
calendar1.DayStyles.Add(dateStyle); 

The above code will color the cell corresponding to June 1st in red.

Let me know if this helps.

Regards
Meppy

Can you post here the code you are using for custom drawing or send your application or the portion of it representing the custom drawing to meppy@mindfusion.eu?

Regards,
Meppy

Yep that does it!

Thanks again.

Is there any alternative way of displaying an entire year? I wondered if your Gannt chart control provided a more typical year planner view?

Regards,
DoctorsDad

I'm sorry but I can't see how the Resource view can give me a full year to view and still resolve individual days.