MindFusion.Pack for Silverlight R1.2012
 

Friday June 22, 2012

We are happy to announce the new release of MindFusion.Scheduling Pack R1.2012. In this release:

Scheduling for ASP.NET 3.0

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

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 with the Orientation property. Grouping is available in both layouts of the view.

MindFusion.DataViews for Silverlight

MindFusion.DataViews are now available for Silverlight.

MindFusion.Scheduling for WinPhone

MindFusion.Scheduling is now availble for WinPhone.

Scheduling for Wpf/Silverlight

Virtualization
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.

Scheduling for WinForms

Item Effects
You can now apply new Glass and Aero visual effects to all items. It is very easy to apply an effect - create an instance of the effect class, set up its properties, add the instance to the Calendar.ItemEffects collection. Effect can be added, removed or modified at any time and this will immediately reflect on the calendar. You can apply more than one effect of the same type or of different types simultaneously.

 
Neon glow theme with glass effect Aero theme with glass effect Bright red theme with glass effect
 

A trial version of the pack is available from this link:

Download MindFusion.Pack for Silverlight R1.2012

Technical support

Technical support is available at the forum, help desk or e-mail support@mindfusion.eu. Our support team aims at providing fast and competent answers to all questions received.

About MindFusion.Scheduling Pack: A set of four programming components for the most popular Microsoft platforms: ASP.NET, WebForms, WPF and Silverlight. There are also assemblies for DataViews and WinPhone. The tools let your web or desktop application create professional and stylish calendars, schedules, time tables and more. Each control offers a variety of views for presenting data - single month, range of months, single week, range of weeks, time table and a list view. There are numerous options for user interaction - from in-place item editing to scrolling and navigation among days/months or years.

In spite of their rich functionality, the controls are very easy to learn and to use. They offer intuitive API as well many samples and tutorials. Each feature is well documented and there's plenty of code to study and copy. Find out more at each of the tool's features page:

Licenses for each of the tool are paid per developer, there are no royalties. You can purchase a license for each of the tools but by buying the pack you pay more than 40 percent less than the sum of the prices of the four components.

   
 
   
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