Re: Is this really new ?

From: Maurice O'Prey
With a properly designed database schema a single SQL
statement would suffice (not 42 SETLLs), returning the day,
month, year and boolean flag for whether or not there is an
appointment booked for that day ...

Thanks for the suggestion. I may try something like that. I need to answer the question - does a given user have any events scheduled on a given day - where there are 42 days in the grid?

Are suggesting that a procedural program should be
initiated that in turn renders HTML for the days of the
calendar with appointment days flagged ...

No. I'm using JavaScript to generate the calendar. But when users navigate to prior or up-coming months, I'm setting the background color of each day according to whether that day has one or more scheduled events - using AJAX.

Wouldn't it be better to bind a Calendar control to a datasource
that provides the information requested?

You lost me, there. Are you suggesting that Microsoft already provides a calendar control that implements the behavior I'm looking for?

Nathan.