# Calendar Overview

Create interactive calendar applications using C1Calendar. This topic provides a brief overview about Calendar control.

## Content



The **Calendar for WPF** is used to create a highly interactive one-month calendar user interface. The **Calendar** control has been designed with rich and flexible API to navigate through months and select a specific date value or a range of dates.

Our **Calendar** control has a new look. Designed for desktop, it supports improvement for touch functionality. Calendar supports custom UI templates and smooth animation.

**Calendar** also provides multiple display modes, orientation, styling and template options, which makes the control even more functional.

![Calendar control showing smooth animation](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/aa932af9-ea21-4e7f-9114-1f57bdf10e97/images/calendar-overviewlook.gif)

| **Documentation** | **Product Sample** |
| --- | --- |
|   [Create Your First Application using Calendar](/componentone/docs/wpf/online-calendar/quickstart)  [Behavior](/componentone/docs/wpf/online-calendar/behavior)  [Orientation](/componentone/docs/wpf/online-calendar/orientation)  [Appearance and Styling](/componentone/docs/wpf/online-calendar/appearance-and-styling)  [Multi Month Calendar](/componentone/docs/wpf/online-calendar/multimonthcalendar)   |   Product samples are located at Documents\\ComponentOne Samples\\WPF\\vx.x\\CS\\Calendar on your system, if you have installed the samples while installing WPF Edition using ComponentOneControlPanel.exe.   |
| **Blogs** |  |
|   [First look at Fluent WPF Calendar and Accordion](https://developer.mescius.com/blogs/first-look-at-fluent-wpf-calendar-and-accordion)   |  |
| **API References** |  |
| API References |  |