MindFusion.Scheduling Pack R1.2012 has been released. It adds the following new features:

MindFusion.Scheduling for ASP.NET

Resource view
This view displays the distribution of items over a period of time for particular contacts, locations, tasks or resources. The view displays a single row for each individual contact, location, task or resource and up to three timelines. In order to view associated items in this view, the GroupType property of the Calendar must be set to GroupByContacts, GroupByLocations, GroupByTasks or GroupByResources.

Vertical list view
Vertical layout has been added to the List view. The vertical list view displays a collection of rows where each row represents a single second, minute, hour, day, week, month or year. You can switch between horizontal and vertical layouts of the List view by setting its Orientation property. Grouping is available in both layouts of the view.

Miscellaneous

• Some of the Style-related properties and classes have been altered in order to provide more clear and straightforward ways to style the Calendar. The Style class is designed for styling non-header elements, such as day cells. The HeaderStyle class is intended for styling different header elements, like day cells headers, timelines, the main and the additional headers within the view. The ItemStyle class is designed exclusively for applying styles to Calendar's items. Check the Customizing the appearance of Views and Customizing the appearance of Items topics to see how the new classes are used. Examples are also available in some of the samples, including Customization, Google Calendar and Tutorial5.
• Some properties have been renamed to ensure consistency across similar classes. The complete list of renamed properties is available in the Upgrading from version 2.x topic.
• The bundled jQuery version has been upgraded to 1.7.
• getStartDate, getEndDate, getViewCells and getViewOrientation methods have been added to the Calendar's client API.

MindFusion.DataViews for Silverlight

MindFusion.DataViews are now also available for Silverlight.

MindFusion.Scheduling for WinPhone

MindFusion.Scheduling is now also available for WinPhone.

MindFusion.Scheduling for WPF/Silverlight

Optimizations
The Calendar control now support virtualization and is able to handle hundreds of items. The virtualization cannot be turned off. When using custom item or cell presenters, you need to pay special attention to the fact that those presenters can be subsequently reused by the virtualization engine for other items or cells. When a CellPresenter is reused, its StartTime and EndTime properties are updated to reflect the start and end time of the new cell. This causes the OnStartTimeChanged and OnEndTimeChanged methods to be invoked. When an ItemPresenter is reused its Item property is updated and its OnItemChanged method is invoked.

Delayed Scrolling
Delayed scrolling can now be enabled through the new DelayScroll property. When scrolling is delayed calendar views do not update immediately during scrollbar interactions. Instead the control displays a small tooltip with information about the new scroll position. The contents of the tooltip can be a date or an index, depending on the specific view and the scrollbar being modified. When the scrollbar interaction is complete, the view updates to reflect the new scroll position.

Miscellaneous

• The new KeepItemOrder property can be used to prioritize the newly created items during collision processing.

MindFusion.Scheduling for WinForms

Item Effects
The new Glass and Aero visual effects can be applied to items. To apply an effect, create an instance of one of the effect classes, set up its properties, then add the instance to the Calendar.ItemEffects collection. Currently, there are two effect types available - AeroEffect and GlassEffect. Effects can be added, removed or modified at any time and this will immediately reflect on the calendar. Effects of different types can be applied simultaneously. It is also possible to apply more than one effect of the same type.


Registered customers with an active upgrade subscription can download the licensed version from the clients area on our site.

A trial version is available for download here:
https://www.mindfusion.eu/PlannerPackTrial.zip

Enjoy!