Calendar Tools for .NET

Calendar Tools 3.0 for .NET provides .NET developers an Outlook-style appointment scheduling and interactive Calendar functionality.

Calendar Tools 3.0 for .NET Highlights:

• Great appointment scheduling
• Intuitive Outlook functionality
• One-point management of Appointment, Contact, Location, and Task information
• Consume Outlook data
• Eye-popping schedules
• Fast, Intuitive component-based programming

 Key Features

• Vista and new outlook styles
• Inline appointment editing
• Drag and drop appointments
• Multiple days - one resource
• Multiple resources - one day
• Variable time line
• Multi-level grouping
• Appointment filtering
• XML design-time support
• XML run-time support
• Export to image file
• Conflict management
• Built-in print, print preview
• User drawn headers

 Schedule Presentation

• Individual appointment styles
• Customizable presentations
• Set fill type
• Set custom fill styles
• Customize time grid per cell
• Reserved / dead zones
• Prime time area definition
• Non-prime time area definition
• Customize all day area
• Appointment text word wrap
• Appointment images

 Printing & Reporting

• Print and print preview
• Print start time/ end time
• Number of printed columns
• Default printer
• Page numbering
• Title formatting
• Sub-title formatting
• Create image

Calendar Tools 3.0 for .NET is a complete component-solution:

• Single presentation settings for all components
• Common data-management architecture for all components,
• Comprehensive appointment, contact, location and task management,
• Appointment scheduling,
• Interactive Calendars,
• Date input
• Date selection

Calendar Tools 3.0 incorporates a true common data management control (dbiPIM.dll) that manages the data interaction of appointments, contacts, locations and tasks for any, one or all instances of the dbiCalendar, dbiDayView and dbiMonth controls.

Keep your software up to date and in step with Microsoft's latest Outlook and Office styles and presentations.

dbiDayView - A multi-column day view control with customizable grouping and sorting features. Ideal for creating appointment scheduling similar to that of Microsoft OutlookTM, incorporating a simplified design interface for:

• Appointment scheduling
• In-line appointment editing
• Filtering and Grouping
• Direct data-management with one data component
• Setting presentation styles once for all instances
• Comprehensive appointment, contact, location and task management
• User Drawn Headers
• Work Week

dbiCalendar - is an excellent companion component for presenting appointment schedules in Outlook-style month and week views. Filtering and grouping features allow for effective sorting of appointment schedules, in either Month or Week views, over a time period for Contact, Location or Task.

• Calendar presentation of schedules
• Filtering and Grouping
• Direct data-management with one data component
• Setting presentation styles once for all instances
• Designer appointment and date presentations
• Trigger appointment detail with built-in settings

dbiMonth - Find dates and display appointments quickly as far into the future or as far into the past as the situation requires. Set the month and year navigation buttons for quick navigation from one month to another and one year to another.

• Month calendar presentations
• Individual month and year navigation
• Unique date formatting
• Per date color, text and graphics
• Set presentation styles once for all instances
• Direct data-management with one data component
• Detailed appointment and date presentations
• Print and Print Preview

dbiDate - Creatively display a selection of calendar months in a variety of formats. From a single monthly calendar presentation to multiple months in a combination of column and row presentations. Designing advanced interfaces with Vista styles and new Outlook presentations is a quick intuitive process:

• Multiple Calendar presentations
• Non-contiguous multi-select
• Unique date formatting
• Per date color, style and font
• Select one or a range of dates

dbiDropDate - Creatively display a masked date edit and drop-down calendar and/or masked time edit control in a variety of Vista and Windows standard formats. dbiDropDate is an excellent add-in for accounting solutions, personal information management (PIM), scheduling solutions and appointment management:

• Masked date edit
• Extended view
• Unique date formatting
• Per date color, style and font
• smart carat position increment
• Incorporate custom objects

Foundations - Supporting structures that give strength, continuity and collaboration to the presentations they support. DBI's underlying foundation layer gives one-point support for common visual presentations and data structures for each instance of the dbiCalendar, dbiDayView and dbiMonth controls. Connect your data to DBI's underlying data manager (dbiPIM.dll) and communication with each instance of the controls is now a simple reference.

Included with Calendar Tools 3.0 for .NET:

• dbiCalendar, dbiDate, dbiDayView.dll, dbiDropDate, dbiMonth, dbiPIM.dll, dbi4.dll
• sample applications, and sample source code in C# and VB .NET
• sample applications include interactive PEM inspector
• smart Client PEM demonstrations available online
• detailed component documentation
• web-based technical support included
• royalty-free distribution