Is there an alternative to Ajax Control Toolkit

Question

I have been asked by my running club to migrate their membership spreadsheet to a web-based application. I've created an ASP.NET 3.5 solution with SQL Server and it works fine on my development machine. However, I have included an Ajax Calendar Extender (not unreasonably I think) and it turns out that the shared hosting server will not support this technology (which seems to require a trust level = full). Rather than look for a new shared hosting provider, can anyone point me to a quick and easy way to implement a similar functionality to the Calendar extender without falling foul of the shared hosting supplier's rules? I should add that I'm doing this pro bono so I'd rather spend as little time as possible :)

Thanks

Edward

Answer 1

You can use jQuery UI Datepicker like so

<script>
  $(function() {
    $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker();
  });
  </script>
<input type="text" id="datepicker">

Answer 2

You don't have to use Ajax Toolkit.

Depending on your needs, you might use pure JavaScript, or any specific library.

If you need replacement for Calendar Extender, you can use datepicker from jqueryui

   <script>
     $(function() {
       $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker();
     });
   </script>

   <input type="text" id="datepicker">

There are many references to JS datepickers here too

Answer 3

I went through a similar situation a few months ago and, given the unfortunate buggy-ness of recent builds of Ajax Control Toolkit, I finally decided to invest in licensing Developer Express' libraries. Much more stable IMHO.