Some of the features of the Calendar framework are:

• Display and manipulate 1000s of calendar entries without losing performance.
• Define how entries are laid out using the predefined layout manager or by providing your own customized layout manager.
• Assign custom renderers that can dictate the complete look and feel of your calendar entries.

• Provide renderers in MXML or ActionScript.
• “Live” zoom support using zoom API.
• Use framework effects such as Zoom and Move to make best use of the expressiveness of a Flex RIA in order to achieve the best user experience possible while navigating the component.
• Efficiently add, remove and update entries at runtime.
• Assign customized background areas to show office hours, lunch time etc
• Fully stylable
• Ability to select calendar entries with visual highlighting
• Consistent in usage with the Flex Framework, eg. dataProvider driven
• Broadcasts events to help interaction development
• Can be used in MXML or Actionscript
• And more…

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