+wxCalendarHitTestResult
+wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest(const wxPoint& pos,
+                        wxDateTime *date,
+                        wxDateTime::WeekDay *wd)
+{
+    WinStruct<MCHITTESTINFO> hti;
+
+    // Vista and later SDKs add a few extra fields to MCHITTESTINFO which are
+    // not supported by the previous versions, as we don't use them anyhow we
+    // should pretend that we always use the old struct format to make the call
+    // below work on pre-Vista systems (see #11057)
+#ifdef MCHITTESTINFO_V1_SIZE
+    hti.cbSize = MCHITTESTINFO_V1_SIZE;
+#endif
+
+    hti.pt.x = pos.x;
+    hti.pt.y = pos.y;
+    switch ( MonthCal_HitTest(GetHwnd(), &hti) )
+    {
+        default:
+        case MCHT_CALENDARWEEKNUM:
+            wxFAIL_MSG( "unexpected" );
+            // fall through
+
+        case MCHT_NOWHERE:
+        case MCHT_CALENDARBK:
+        case MCHT_TITLEBK:
+        case MCHT_TITLEMONTH:
+        case MCHT_TITLEYEAR:
+            return wxCAL_HITTEST_NOWHERE;
+
+        case MCHT_CALENDARDATE:
+            if ( date )
+                date->SetFromMSWSysDate(hti.st);
+            return wxCAL_HITTEST_DAY;
+
+        case MCHT_CALENDARDAY:
+            if ( wd )
+            {
+                int day = hti.st.wDayOfWeek;
+
+                // the native control returns incorrect day of the week when
+                // the first day isn't Monday, i.e. the first column is always
+                // "Monday" even if its label is "Sunday", compensate for it
+                const int first = LOWORD(MonthCal_GetFirstDayOfWeek(GetHwnd()));
+                if ( first == MonthCal_Monday )
+                {
+                    // as MonthCal_Monday is 0 while wxDateTime::Mon is 1,
+                    // normally we need to do this to transform from MSW
+                    // convention to wx one
+                    day++;
+                    day %= 7;
+                }
+                //else: but when the first day is MonthCal_Sunday, the native
+                //      control still returns 0 (i.e. MonthCal_Monday) for the
+                //      first column which looks like a bug in it but to work
+                //      around it it's enough to not apply the correction above
+
+                *wd = static_cast<wxDateTime::WeekDay>(day);
+            }
+            return wxCAL_HITTEST_HEADER;
+
+        case MCHT_TITLEBTNNEXT:
+            return wxCAL_HITTEST_INCMONTH;
+
+        case MCHT_TITLEBTNPREV:
+            return wxCAL_HITTEST_DECMONTH;
+
+        case MCHT_CALENDARDATENEXT:
+        case MCHT_CALENDARDATEPREV:
+            return wxCAL_HITTEST_SURROUNDING_WEEK;
+    }
+}
+