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What's New in this Release

The list below describes recent changes and additions to MindFusion.Scheduling:

 New in Version 5.8.3

• The Opacity property lets you create translucent items by applying it to the alpha channel of all colors in the Style.
• Fix for items not repainting immediately after changing StartTime and EndTime properties (also from standard AppointmentForm).
• New ScheduleDB sample project demonstrates storing the schedule in SQLite database.
• Added localizations for following languages: Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish;

 New in Version 5.8.2

.NET 6 assemblies

The distribution now includes assemblies for .NET 6. Locally installed assemblies don't show automatically in toolbox at this time, you can either add them manually or through Nuget package manager.

Reorder resources

• Enable the AllowReorderResources property of TimetableSettings to let users reorder resource columns in timetable view when GroupType is set. The ReorderIndicatorColor and ReorderIndicatorWidth properties let you customize the appearance of insertion indicator line.
• Enable the AllowReorderResources property of ResourceViewSettings to let users reorder rows in resource view when GroupType and SecondaryGroupType are set. The ReorderIndicatorColor and ReorderIndicatorWidth properties let you customize the appearance of insertion indicator line.

Miscellaneous

• New ItemHeaderText and ItemDescriptionText members of CustomDrawElements let you custom-draw item's text labels.
• Enable the ExtendedCurrentTimeMarker property of TimetableSettings or TimelineSettings to make current-time marker span the full extent of timetable / resource view (instead of only header area).

API changes

AllowMoveRowHeaders property of ResourceViewSettings is now considered obsolete and superseded by AllowReorderResources. The latter also allows reordering secondary resources.

New in Version 5.8.1

.NET 5 support

The MindFusion.Scheduling distribution now includes assemblies for .NET 5. Design time support is not available at this time, you can add Calendar and other controls to a form only by code.

Dark themes

Two dark themes added, accessible via the Dark and Black elements of ThemeType enumeration, and static Dark and Black properties of Theme class.

Dark	Black

New in Version 5.8

JSON serialization

Schedules can now be serialized in JSON format. This can be used for interoperability with MindFusion JavaScript scheduling library, or for general storage in JSON files or databases. To serialize a Schedule to a JSON string, call its SaveToJson method. To deserialize a schedule back from its JSON representation, call the LoadFromJson method. Custom item classes can implement JSON serialization for their additional properties by overriding the SaveTo(JsonObject) and LoadFrom(JsonObject) methods of base Item class. Such classes must be registered for serialization by calling the RegisterItemClass method and providing a string identifier for the clientClass parameter.

Miscellaneous

• StartProcess, ProcessFileName and ProcessArguments properties added to Reminder.