List View Timelines in Scheduling for WinForms

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In this blog post we will build a simple scheduler with several timelines. We are using MindFusion Scheduling library for WinForms and Visual Studio with .NET6.0

I. Project Setup and General Settings

We create a new empty WinForms project in Visual Studio. We choose .NET6.0. Then we open the Form Editor. From the Visual Studio top menu bar we click “Project -> Manage NuGet Packages…”. In the Browse tab we search for “MindFusion.Scheduling”. You can install either the Scheduling package or the whole MindFusion.Pack.Winforms, if you plan to use more MindFusion controls.

Installing the Scheduler Control from NuGet
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One-way Links in Diagramming for JavaScript

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In this blog post we demonstrate how you can use the JavaScript Diagram library to allow users to draw an org chart or one-way graph. By default, users are allowed to draw links between any two nodes and the count of links is unlimited. We will use event and properties, available in JS Diagram to allow users to:
– draw only one link between two nodes
– draw links only in one direction.

This behavior mirrors the hierarchy of an organization: in general , each employee, represented by a node, should have only one direct boss.


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Two Ways to Load A MindFusion Java Swing Library From Maven In a NetBeans Project

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In this blog post we will look at two ways to load the Scheduling library for Java Swing from Maven using Apache NetBeans IDE. In our previous blog post we looked at how to add the library from a local *.jar file. Now we will load it interactively from Maven. MindFusion’s repositories on Maven can be found at https://search.maven.org/search?q=mindfusion.

In the sections below we will look on how to load the Scheduling library from Maven and use it in a:

  • Maven project
  • Gradle project

We test that the scheduling library was successfully loaded by showing a simple calendar:

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