UWP calendar view visible date range - range

Question

I would like to know how to get the range of dates the user is able to see on the Universal Windows Platform CalendarView control. I already tried looking on the Microsoft website but i can't seem to find anything.

Answer 1

1. By default, the minimum date shown in the CalendarView is 100 years prior to the current date, and the maximum date shown is 100 years past the current date.
You can change the minimum and maximum dates that the calendar shows by setting the MinDate and MaxDate properties. For example like this:
calendarView.MinDate = new DateTime(2000, 1, 1);
calendarView.MaxDate = new DateTime(2099, 12, 31);
You can also get the range of dates like this:
var minDate = calendarView.MinDate;
var maxDate = calendarView.MaxDate;
2. If what you want to do is changing the visible region of the CalendarView (by default it starts with the month view open, it shows 6 rows of dates which contain the current month.), you can use CalendarView.SetDisplayDate method for example like this:
DateTime localTime = new DateTime(2007, 07, 12, 06, 32, 00);
DateTimeOffset dateAndOffset = new DateTimeOffset(localTime, TimeZoneInfo.Local.GetUtcOffset(localTime));
calendarView.SetDisplayDate(dateAndOffset);
In this sample, the CalendarView will show the month 2007/7.
3. As I said, by default the number of weeks shown in the calendar view is 6, you can change it by CalendarView.NumberOfWeeksInView property, for example in xaml code:
<CalendarView x:Name="calendarView" NumberOfWeeksInView="8" />
Or code behind:
calendarView.NumberOfWeeksInView = 8;
The minimum number of weeks to show is 2, the maximum is 8;
4. Besides the month view, there are also year view and decade view in CalendarView, you can change it with CalendarView.DisplayMode property for example in xaml code:
<CalendarView x:Name="calendarView" DisplayMode="Year"/>
Or in code behind:
calendarView.DisplayMode = CalendarViewDisplayMode.Decade;
Since you asked a quite simple but broad question, I list every possibilities I could think about. If you have any other questions about this control, please check CalendarView class again.