Any Free Alternative to the ASP.net Calendar Control? [closed]

Question

Here are the problems I am having with the control from the factory:

• no easy way to get the first visible date (yeah I could use day render, but at that point in the page cycle, I can't do what I need to, which is manipulate a collection in viewstate)
• changing the visibledate property in my code does not raise the visiblemonthchanged event. That just doesn't make any sense to me.

Can someone suggest a free, improved calendar control?

Answer 1

jQuery datepicker:

example:

<input id='datepicker' class='datepicker' />

$(function(){
$(".datepicker").datepicker({ 
                          buttonImage: "/Content/img/calendar.gif", 
                          buttonImageOnly: true });
});