When the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit first came out with the CalendarExtender, I just loved it. That smooth transition when navigating from month to month or year to year really won me over. I’ve also loved how I could use it as a simple ASP.NET Control by integrating it in my pages and using from my code-behind.
I took a look at the jQuery UI DatePicker widget (from an ASP.NET Developers point of view), which again completely won me over. What was it this time? Well … the speed, the options, the themes, the frequent updates, the ease of integration, etc. » Continue reading ...