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jQuery UI DatePicker instead of AJAX Control Toolkit CalendarExtender in ASP.NET | Arnold Matusz's Blog

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jQuery UI DatePicker instead of AJAX Control Toolkit CalendarExtender in ASP.NET | Arnold Matusz's Blog

When the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit first came out with the CalendarExtender, I just loved it. That smooth transition when navigating from month to month or year to year really won me over. I’ve also loved how I could use it as a simple ASP.NET Control by integrating it in my pages and using from my code-behind. I took a look at the jQuery UI DatePicker widget (from an ASP.NET Developers point of view), which again completely won me over. What was it this time? Well … the speed, the options, the theme...