Planner.NET

Provide your applications with a rich set of calendar and scheduling features.
MindFusions Planner.NET is a software component that provides your applications with a rich set of calendar and scheduling features. This Windows Forms component can easily be integrated in your products and saves you hundreds of hours of coding and debugging efforts.

With Planner.NET you can present task and appointments information during different time periods (hours, days, weeks, and months) as well show all engagements at a specific day or several consequent days. The different time views and sorting options of the component make items organization and management simple and efficient.

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
• A resource view, displaying the distribution of resources over a period of time

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 .NET development environments and programming languages, and can be used to create applications in C#, VB.NET and Delphi.NET.

Planner.NET - Features

Planner .NET offers comprehensive variety of features, which guarantee that appointment scheduling and task arrangement is done in a simple and comprehensive way. The numerous characteristics of the component guarantee that you shall find the most suitable way to manage time and represent appointments and events close at hand. Planner.NET has a big collection of methods and properties, which give the programmer absolute freedom in choosing layout style, task presentation and data output.

Features

The Planner.NET control

• Redistribution is royalty free
• Assembly is strong-named
• Is digitally signed
• Can be purchased with source code
• Is written in C#

The Schedule.NET component

• Allows definition of custom-typed events
• Supports recurring events
• Can be persisted into binary streams and XML documents
• Supports database serialization

Views

• Timetable view
• DayRange view
• Month view
• WeekRange view
• MonthRange view
• Resource view

User interaction

• In-place item editing
• Interactive item creation and modification
• Single and multiple item selection
• Scrolling
• Automatic scrolling while dragging items with the mouse
• Tool-tips
• Column resize in Timetable view
• Expand and collapse of rows in Resource view
• Moving to the next / previous day, month or year

Programming

• Programmatic access to both schedule objects and the calendar methods and properties
• Numerous properties for customizing the appearance and behavior of every calendar view
• Rich event set

Output

• To display via Windows Forms
• Print Preview
• Printing
• Export parts or whole calendars as images
• Printing and reports preview

Appearance

• Fully customizable style-based appearance
• Customizable fonts, colors and alignments of displayed text
• Images can be associated with calendar elements
• Header and item shadows
• Custom painting of various elements
• User-assigned mouse cursors
• Rich choice of pen and brush styles
• Themes

Auxiliary forms

• AppointmentForm for appointment creation and editing
• ReccurrenceForm for event recurrence creation and editing
• TaskForm for task creation and editing

Tools

• ThemeEditor - automates the creation of custom themes

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Planner.NET - System Requirements

System requirements

Operating systems supported

• Windows2000
• WinXP
• Windows2003
• Windows Vista Starter
• Windows Vista Home Basic
• Windows Vista Home Prem

Requirements

• .NET framework