Silverlight Scheduler

Hi,

We are currently switching over to Silverlight for a new project, so it's our first time working with this technology. We are looking for some controls to help pave the path for new possibilities. This is why I am evaluating the MindScape controls (and specially the Silverlight Scheduler).

Are there any guides/API's for this control that can get me started on using this control (ex.: changing the pop-up for adding an appointment to a custom pop-up, changing the look and feel of the scheduler control, ...), or what should be my approach to quickly get a grasp on the possibilities?

Thanks.

edit: turns out I was somewhat blind, I found the documentation and will look into it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

No worries, let us know if you have any questions about the Scheduler.

Jason Fauchelle

Hi again,

Through the combined manuals of the Silverlight component and the WPF one, I've been successful in changing the appointments and the dialog to my wishes. There are three points however I can't seem to solve:

• Changing the locale of the Schedule labels. The days of the week are no problem (with the Language property), but the labels are. (effect wanted: http://www.mindscapehq.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/04/localizing-the-wpf-scheduler/)

• Multi-scheduler view. For the WPF scheduler there's this guide: http://www.mindscapehq.com/blog/index.php/2010/8/18/wpf-elements-how-to-build-a-multi-scheduler/. The Silverlight pack doesn't seem to have the needed controls to execute these steps. Would we have to design this functionality ourselves, or is there another option to get this view?

• Displaying the hours in the 24h system. This would be for the vertical display of the hours in the Day and Week view. Would I need to style both views in order to get this preference?

I'm just using the trial version, and I take it that purchasing the source code would easily fix 2 of these problems, so I'm just wondering if that is the solution.

Thanks,

Wim

Hello

We are currently working on providing a convenient solution to these 3 questions. I will give you more information about them tomorrow, and you'll be able to download the update the very next day. You won't need to purchase the source code to implement them yourself.

Jason Fauchelle

Hello

The solutions for these 3 questions will be available through the next nightly build. This will be available at around 1200 GMT (about 6 hours from now). Nightly builds can be downloaded from the downloads page: http://www.mindscapehq.com/products/silverlightelements/nightly-builds

When you have installed the next nightly build, here is how you can use the new features:

1) Label localization. This has now been ported from the WPF Scheduler to the Silverlight Scheduler and works in the exact same way. (setting the content properties in the SchedulerFormatter).

2) Multi scheduler. The components needed to create a multi scheduler as described in the guide you mentioned have also been ported from our WPF Scheduler. This is mostly the same as the WPF version with a few difference with setting up the commands. I have attached a sample for the Silverlight version of this for convenience. To run the sample, make sure to add a reference to your copy of the Mindscape.SilverlightElements.dll (once you have installed the next nightly build).

3) Styling the time bar. For this I have added a TimOfDayBarStyle property to the Scheduler control. Here you can set a custom style for the TimeOfDayBar component which will automatically be applied in both views. You will notice that the multi-scheduler sample I attached also includes a simple custom TimeOfDayBar style which displays the times in 24 hour format. (Note that this style is being set on the TimeOfDayBar control directly because this is the multi-scheduler sample. You can use this same style to set the TimeOfDayBarStyle property of a Scheduler control).

Let us know if you have any questions about any of this.

Jason Fauchelle