Console Calendar Sample

Sample console calendar application which eats the mm.YYYY from the parameters and draws the calendar   for the selected month inside the console. Output is based on the current locale.


Platform: Windows
Language: C++
IDE: Visual Studio 2010

Source code is freely available on GitHub:
https://github.com/pgurenko/ConsoleCalend

Made this utility in a few hours as a test project to job interview.

The hardest part here was not the actual logic of the program but what WinAPIs to use.
Because I had no practice with locale APIs under Windows, most of the time I spent googling "best way to"...

Just browse the code - it worth looking at.

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