MindFusion Planner .net

What's New in Planner.NET V5.3?

• Resource view now supports grouping by two resource types
• Row headers can be resized interactively
• Events can be associated with multiple resources

What's New in Planner.NET V5.2.1?

• Export calendars and reports to Excel
• Weekends can be filtered out in single month and month range views
• Icons and labels in the print preview toolbar can be customized
• EnableWorkOnWeekends property specifies whether work time is also displayed on weekends

What's New in Planner.NET V5.1.1?

Holiday Providers

• The implementations of the new IHolidayProvider interface can now be used to supply culture-specific lists of holidays. The USHolidayProvider can be used to supply the major holidays in United States for a specific time interval.

Miscellaneous

• Improved performance in List view.
• The SaveTo and LoadFrom method of the Calendar class now also save grouping information.

What's New in Planner.NET V5.1?

• Now includes undo/redo support

What's New in Planner.NET V5?

• Export reports to PDF
• Recurrence instance validation and filtering 
• Milestone mode implemented in list view 
• Event delegates follow the EventHandler<ArgsType> convention of .NET 2

What's New in Planner.NET V4.4.5?

• Vista theme
• Text shadow properties added to the Style class
• Right-to-left layout improvements
• Several built-in icons have been replaced to improve appearance

What's New in Planner.NET V4.4.1?

• Visual Studio 2008 support
• Schedule serialization has been redesigned to allow easier custom item and tag serialization and more robust compatibility with earlier file format versions
• Several new methods have been added to the ItemDrawContext class
• List view has been greatly improved; FreeDrag, CellUnit, EnableSnapping and SnapUnit are several of its propertiesItemModificationStyle property has been added to the Calendar class
• CellLayout property has been added to the MonthSettings class; it affects the way cells in the SingleMonth and MonthRange views are laid out
• Schedule.GetFreePeriod method overloads enable you to find an unoccupied period of time with a specific duration
• Various minor properties added to the Calendar class
• New samples demonstrating the new features
• New reporting functions

What's New in Planner.NET V4.3?

• List view replaces the old DayRange view
• List view displays arbitrary long sequences of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years
• the Position enumeration contains a None value, which indicates that headers will not be displayed
• TimeFormat property has been added to AppointmentForm, TaskForm and RecurrenceForm
• TimelineSettings exposes three new properties: NowColor, NowFillColor and ShowCurrentTime
• WeekRangeHeaderStyle enumeration contains a Reference member, which indicates whether the view header should display the name of the corresponding resource when grouping is enabled
• CurrentTime property has been added to the Calendar class; it may be used to 'override' the current system time
• Calendar.ToolTip gives access to the underlying .NET ToolTip object associated with the control

What's New in Planner.NET V4.2.1?

• The EnableOptimization property improves the drawing speed of items
• An information header can be optionally displayed in Timetable views
• ResourceViewSettings.CellOffset specifies the offset of the cells from the view origin

What's New in Planner.NET V4.2?

• Theme class allows creating custom themes
• Theme Editor tool lets you create custom themes interactively
• New Style class properties for text margins size
• GetVisibleItems method returns a collection of all visible items
• ItemCreationCanceled event raised when users cancel item creation

What's New in Planner.NET V4.1?

• Database serialization support (only in the .NET 2 version)
• Microsoft Outlook Import/Export Library
• Recurrences have been improved
• Cells can be deselected by holding down the Control key and clicking
• Items can be interactively created by dragging with the mouse
• Interactive item cloning can be canceled by right clicking
• MonthWeekHeaderClick event added
• ItemCloning and ItemCloned events added
• The reminder checks in the schedule can now be turned off
• Improved design-time brush editors

What's New in Planner.NET V4.0?

• Advanced reporting component implemented in Planner.NET
• The Timetable view supports grouping first by resource and then by date
• Interactive cloning of items
• Enhanced control over user interaction
• Resource-specific selection
• Styles let you set the border width and color of each side of items
• Now collision detection can be disabled programmatically

What's New in Planner.NET V3.2?

• The DayRange view now supports grouping
• A new theme - Silver - has been added
• ItemSelectionChanged event raised when an item is selected or deselected
• Improved item ordering
• Improved interaction with items in the Resource view
• Improvements and bug fixes in printing and print preview
• Landscape property added to PrintOptions
• TimetableSettings.SelectWholeDayOnHeaderClick property added
• Non-contiguous time range selection supported now
• SnapUnitCount makes items in resource view snap at arbitrary intervals

What's New in Planner.NET V3.1?

• Schedule items can display formatted text
• The resource view now supports filtering
• GetItemBounds returns the bounding rectangle of an item
• ItemModificationCanceled event raised when modification is canceled
• Text smoothing can be enabled via the TextRendering property
• Improved tooltips support

What's New in Planner.NET V3.0?

• A new view type, called Resource view, has been implemented
• The Resource class implements a new general type of resources
• Styles redesigned to support cascading propagation of style attributes
• The timetable view can display cells with accuracy down to the second
• CollapseResourceRow, ExpandResourceRow and IsResourceRowExpanded methods added
• MinItemLength specifies the minimal length of user-created items
• A new item editor added, allows modifying items description and header text
• A new theme called Lila added
• The Timetable view can be zoomed in or out

Overview

Planner.NET provides your applications with a rich set of calendar and scheduling features. With Planner.NET you can present task and appointments information during different time periods (hours, days, weeks and months) as well as recurrent appointments or show all engagements at a specific day or several consequent days. Planner.NET can display a schedule in several view types, such as:

• A range of months, displaying several months in a grid, each of the months displaying its days in a smaller grid
• A single month view, displaying the days of a month and allowing scrolling to previous or next month
• A range of weeks, displaying days in a grid in which the days of a week occupy a single row
• A range of days, displaying a single day on each row or column
• A timetable view, displaying the allotment of resources to distinct hours of a day. The columns of this view can be grouped by location, task or contact

Planner.NET provides intuitive user-interaction model for creating or editing appointments and events in a schedule. In addition, its programmatic interface places at your disposal many useful functions, ranging from printing and XML serialization to displaying reminders and checking what occurrences of recurrent events happen in a specified time interval. The control has been tested with the most popular Dotnet (.NET) development environments and programming languages like CSharp, VB.NET or Delphi.NET. It can be used to create applications in Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET) C#, Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) or Delphi .NET among others.

Planner.NET consists of three assemblies:

• Schedule.dll assembly defines the schedule data model and implements the Schedule class which serves as a document in the document-view architecture. This assembly also defines classes such as Item and Appointment which represent individual events in the schedule
• Calendar.NET.dll assembly implements several calendar and schedule view as part of the Calendar Windows Forms control class. All views are implemented in the same control to allow drilling down the schedule data simply by changing the views. Each view allow creating new schedule items in it by typing over a time cell. Schedule items can be moved around and resized to change their start time and duration
• ScheduleStandardForms.dll implements several standard dialogs that allow creating and editing schedule data such as tasks, contacts and appointments. Planner.NET provides assemblies for versions 1.1 and 2.0 of the .NET framework.