Date Navigation and Gestures

8 Jan 20252 minutes to read

Forward

By default, the date can be navigated to next view using touch gesture and swiping the control in right to left direction. The view can also be changed programmatically using forward method available in SfCalendar. It will move to next month,next year,next period of decade years,next period of century years based on the ViewMode.

  • C#
    • calendar.Forward();

    NOTE

    It can be navigated until it reaches the MaxDate

    Backward

    By default, the date can be navigated to previous view using touch gesture and swiping the control in left to right direction. The view also can be changed programmatically using backward method available in SfCalendar. It will move to previous month,previous year,previous period of decade years,previous period century years based on the ViewMode.

  • C#
    • calendar.Backward();

    NOTE

    It can be navigated until it reaches the MinDate.

    Move to Date

    Visible dates can be moved to specific date using MoveToDate property available in SfCalendar. it will move to any specific month,year,decade,century view based on the ViewMode.

  • C#
    • SfCalendar sfCalendar = new SfCalendar(this);
 Calendar moveToDate = Calendar.Instance;
 moveToDate.Set
    (
        2010,
        Calendar.August,
        25,
        0,
        0,
        0
    );
sfCalendar.MoveToDate = moveToDate;

    NOTE

    The specified date should lie between MinDate and MaxDate, if the specified date is greater than MaxDate then the view will be moved to maxDate and if the specified date is lesser than the MinDate then the view will be moved to minDate.

    Toggle navigation

    By default, calendar views can be moved backwards and forwards using touch swipe gesture. This navigation, using touch gesture can be enabled and disabled using NavigationEnable property available in SfCalendar control. By default, NavigationEnable property is enabled.

  • C#
    • SfCalendar sfCalendar = new SfCalendar(this);
sfCalendar.NavigationEnable=false;