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Change Log

Version	New features
6.3.3 (05/01/08)	The Visual Studio 2008 support was added. Especially the integration of the control’s help with MSDN 2008 was implemented. Additionally, all projects were recompiled with the new Visual Studio 2008 environment. Notice, the binary libraries (assemblies, DLL files) work still with Visual Studio 2005 well. The painting of the links between appointments, if one of them is located outside of the visible part of the resource scheduler, was corrected. The painting is wrong especially, if the appointment was hidden either above or below the control. The enabling/disabling of the vertical scrollbar in the resource scheduler, when the control height was changed, was corrected. The exception throwing at the paintDaysWorkspace method of the monthly calendar control was eliminated. The controlling of the showing/hiding week navigation buttons was added. The new BehaviorOptions. ShowWeekButtons flag was added. The resseting of the flag in the RootCalendar.BehaviorOptions property force hiding the week navigaton buttons. The GetDayInfo event was expanded. That allows specifying individual colors for particulars time cells. Now, every row/column of the time could get different color, e.g. 10:00…10:30 green, 10:30…11:00 blue, etc. The argument object of the GetDayInfo event gains two additional methods AddTimeColor and AddIntervalColor intended to control these colors.
6.2 (3/03/08)	Some bugs with the removing multiple appointments together were corrected. The working of the RootCalendar.Appointments.LastSelected property was corrected. The invoking of the growing operation for the appointment objects was changed. The change make possible firing then AppointmentClick event. Displaying of the categories menu in the ComboCalendar control was corrected, when the BusyStates have been defining with the individual values. Displaying appointments in the DailyCalendar control with multiple resources during scrolling by the horizontal scrollbar was corrected. Painting links between appointment rectangles in the ResourceScheduler control was corrected. The problem appeared if one from the appointment rectangle was placed outside visible period in control. Supports for both the Resource.BackColor property and the GetDayInfo event for resources in weekly and monthly calendar were added. This allows coloring of particular resources in these calendars. Enabling of the horizontal scrollbar in a DailyCalendar control, if the AllowDateChange property is false value, was corrected. If the number of the resources was greater than number of the columns in the calendar, the horizontal scrollbar was disabled, even though there are some resources located outside visible part of the control. A new algorithm of painting images in appointment rectangles for the DailyCalendar control was implemented. This algorithm causes the many images will visible even though an appointment rectangle is small size. A new AppointmentHeight property was added to the WeeklyCalendar and the MonthlyCalendar. This property allows controlling a height of appointment rectangles. Drawing of the appointment hours and text in the WeeklyCalendar and the MonthlyCalendar was corrected. In some cases appointment texts overrides hour’s texts and make those illegibility. A keeping visibility of all resource columns in the DailyCalendar control during adding/removing resources to the calendar. A hiding of appointments terminators during moving ones outside of the visible part of the resource scheduler control was corrected. The names of the events and the methods were changed. The OnReccurenceQuery() to OnRecurrenceQuery(), CreateReccurenceException to CreateRecurrenceException and OnCreateReccurenceException() to OnCreateRecurrenceException(). The displaying appointment text in the resource scheduler in the SmallBoxWithText mode was changed. If the text doesn’t fit in, first, it overrides the appointment rectangle. If it still doesn't fit in, it will be displayed in multi lines mode, up to 5 lines. A new ShowTimeFrom property was added into both weekly and monthly calendars. The property, like ShowTimeTo property, allows hiding the start time of appointments on the calendar. The support for TAB key was corrected in case of the selected appointment object has been removed for the TabularCalendar control. The throwing AccessViolationException by GDI+ library was protected. The exception happens as a result of error in the GDI+ library for some arguments pass to.
6.0 (1/16/07)	Recurrences appointment support added. New controls were created in order to edit recurrence of an appointment added: RecurrenceForm, RecurrenceControl, DailyPatternControl, WeeklyPatternControl, MonthlyPatternControl and YearlyPatternControl. New properties: Appointment.IsReccurence, Appointment.Reccurence, RootCalendar.OccurrencesAppointment allow to handle recurrences' appointments. Handling FirstResource in a ResourceScheduler in case objects are deleted or added from a ResourceScheduler.Resources collection corrected. Setting MinDate and MaxDate in a ResourceScheduler control corrected. In case of short time periods falling within a scheduler exceptions were raised. ComboCalendar operation when there is only one possible calendar view (only daily, weekly or monthly) corrected. *Changes of appearance a toolbar of a ComboCalendar* control were made.** A new button controlling recurrency for appointments added in a ComboCalendar. New property Appointment.Important controlling importance of a selected appointment and displaying appropriate icon added. New property Appointment.Private controlling privacy of a selected appointment and displaying appropriate icon added. New properties RootCalendar.DefaultIcons and RootCalendar.DefaultImageList allowing to control display of standard recurrency importance and private icons on an appointment added. Support for switching between ComboCalendar calendars and retaining a date displayed corrected. Support for setting WorkWeek in a ComboCalendar changed in such a way that Monday - Friday period is always displayed. Horizontal scrolling of a DailyCalendar corrected. An HoursLabelWidth property determining width of hours label in a left part of a calendar control added to a DailyCalendar control. Support for DesignMode when a calendar is used with a LinkedCalendar updated. Buttons controlling busy state and category of an appointment added to a ComboCalendar control toolbar. Verification of DailyCalendar.HoursResolution property setting added. It cannot assume all values used by a ResourceScheduler. Displaying tooltips for appointment objects and displaying various cursors corrected. A possibility to configure an algorithm for calculating a number of a week in a year added. Using a virtual ResourceScheduler.GetWeekNumber method you can write your own calculation algorithm. When a FirstDayOfWeek.Default value is assigned to a ShowWeekNumbers property, system settings are used. For other values of this property an algorithm can be configured using a WeekRule property. A new BehaviorOptions property containing flags controlling calendar operations to be used instead of AllowAddNew, AllowDelete, AllowOverlap oraz EnableEditInPlace properties added. Settings allowing for disabling appointments dragging (AllowDragAppointment), resource change block (DenyChangingResource) and start and end of an appointment change controls (AllowChangeStart and AllowChangeEnd) added to a BehaviorOptions property. WeekFormat and ShowWeekNumber properties that were visible in design-mode in all calendars now are visible only in a ResourceScheduler control. On a time line in DailyCalendar (on the left) and ResourceScheduler (on the top) a menu allowing to set a time resolution is displayed after right-clicking a mouse. Available resolutions are controlled using an AvailableResolutions property. This property controls showing of a time resolution menu. A menu appears when operator clicks with using right mouse button on time-ruler of DailyCalendar or ResourceScheduler controls. DayLabelFormat and DayMonthLabelFormat controlling a format of day (month) number displayed in a calendar header added to a MonthlyCalendar. A working of Resource.Visible property in a ResourceScheduler control was corrected. Added a new PrintInformation.ResourcesOnEveryPage property, which one forces printing of a resources' table in an every page, not only first.
5.1 (4/04/06)	Initializing ResourceScheduler’s columns when it is used in a ComboCalendar corrected. MinDate and MaxDate setting in a ResourceScheduler corrected. Values are now rounded according to ResourceScheduler.MinResolution. Checking parameters passed to a DailyCalendar.EnsureVisible(...) method added. BaseCalendar.EnsureVisible(...) is now protected against uninitialized SelectedDate time. A BaseCalendar.CloseEditor(...) method allowing you to programatically finish editing appointment text added. Drawing a year in control's header in case header style is HeaderStyle==Cells corrected.
5.0 (12/13/05)	All code was rewritten using new, optimized .NET 2.0 constructs: generics, enumerators. Methods allowing to save appoinments objects into a text file in ICS format. A button allowing to send selected appointments to a program associated with ICS extension (ex. Microsoft Outlook) added to a ComboCalendar control. The code of a library conforms to "Code Analysis" rules. A ComboCalendar control is used as a toolbar to select type of a calendar etc, now uses a new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip control. Displaying appointments with zero duration in a DailyCalendar corrected. Such an appointment takes one row (it is denoted by a triangular marker on 'busy' bar). Drag&Drop operation when calendars are moved or copied between two calendars corrected. Drag&Drop demo application allows you to test this mechanism. Handling DailyCalendar.FirstHourOfDay property corrected. An property Resource.Visible allowing you to hide individual resources in a calendar added. A set of properties enhancing an interface: ResourceCollection.Visible, Resource.Index, Resource.VisibleIndex, Appointment.VisibleResourceIndex. Changing paint mode enhancing presentation of WeeklyCalendar, MonthlyCalendar and ResourceScheduler. Enhancing support for multipage calendar printouts. A BaseCalendar.Print(...) was supplemented with a PrintInformation type parameter enabling controlling printout pagination in a convenient way. Wrong DailyCalendar.DayLabelFormat, WeeklyCalendar.DateLabelFormat, etc properties format error handled. Shadows under Appointment objects added. They are not displayed if a RootCalendar.ShowShadows property is set to false. New events added to a RootCalendar control: AppointmentClick, DateTimeClick, ResourceClick. They allow for easy programming of events associated with mouse clicks on various elements of a calendar. An ability to associate a context menu with various elements of a calendar added. This is accomplished using new properties in a RootCalendar: AppointmentMenuStrip, ResourceMenuStrip, DateTimeMenuStrip, ContextMenuStrip. Menu is dropped down after right-click, pressing Shift-F10 or Apps (Natural Keyboard). Markers denoting appointment objects that did not fit into day (and resource) rectangles on MonthlyCalendar and WeeklyCalendar added. A DailyCalendar displays markers meaning that there are appointments below and above a period of time displayed. A possibility to delete appointments from a calendar using a button on a toolbar or a DEL key. This possibility can be controlled using a RootCalendar.AllowDelete property and Deleting and Deleted events. A possibility to automatically add new appointments to a calendar added. Adding starts when hours (days) are selected and Enter is pressed, mouse is double-clicked or a commandbar button is pressed. This possibility can be controlled using a RootCalendar.AllowAddNew property and Adding and Added events.
4.3 (07/05/05)	The error arising after pressing a TAB key when there is no Appointment object on a DailyCalendar control corrected. A ConnectorStyle property allowing to define a layout of lines between connected appointment objects, added to a ResourceScheduler control. There are two possibilities: a dashed line (previous versions of CalendarGo) and arrows (like Gantt charts in Microsoft Project). Two new values GrowMode.ProjectWithSpace and GrowMode.ProjectWithSpaceIncreasable added. When assigned to BaseCalendar.GrowMode they allow to easily use controls for project planning. Displaying a tooltip for an Appointment object not fully visible on a calendar in a ResourceScheduler control corrected. An error causing a message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" in DailyCalendar that occurred when an AllDayVisible property was set to false corrected. An error occurring while painting lines dividing hours during free time on a DailyCalendar corrected. A ComboCalendar control protected against the System.Windows.Forms.MonthCalendar error when decreasing a value of a year. Synchronization of a ComboCalendar with System.Windows.Forms.MonthCalendar corrected. An error enabling scrolling past the allowed range with a WheelMouse corrected. Operation of a LinkedCalendar when MinDate and MaxDate were set in a LinkedCalendar (System.Windows.Forms.MonthCalendar) corrected. Operation of a vertical scrollbar for controls with a nonstandard resource line height in a ResourceScheduler corrected. Property: ResourceScheduler.RowHeight. Operation of a horizontal scrollbar for dates later than 1/1/2030 corrected. Property DailyCalendar.FirstHourOfDay determining time a day starts added. Aday finishes at the same time next day. For example if FirstHourOfDay is 6am, then 1/5/2005 lasts from 1/5/2005 6am to 1/6/2005 6am. A DailyCalendar.PaintDayLabel event allowing to paint a proprietary date label added. This event is used for each label independently passing information on date in PaintLabelEventArgs.Date. Becouse of conflicting (with System.Windows.Form.Control.Paint) identifiers, a name on a BaseCalendar.Paint(Graphics g, Appointment ap) method was changed to DrawAppointment(...). A parameter determining a part of an appointment to be drawn was added. Calling a DailyCalendar.RequestAppointments event in case a number of resources is larger than 1 corrected. A RequestAppointmentsEventArgs.DateTo event’s argument was calculated incorrectly. This event was also called more frequently than necessary. A possibility to change the appearance of a header containing a time axis in a ResourceScheduler control added. A selection can be made via a HeaderStyle property. < and > buttons allowing to move to the previous and next week were added to a ResourceScheduler control displaying week numbers in a header, next to a horizontal scrollbar. To a Resource object, a SubItems property allowing to add extra information to each object was added. The extra information can be displayed by a ResourceScheduler in subsequent columns on the left and/or right side of an appointment grid. These columns are defined by ResourceScheduler.LeftResourceColumns, ResourceScheduler.RightResourceColumns, ResourceScheduler.LeftResourceWidth and ResourceScheduler.RightResourceWidth properties.
4.2 (03/12/05)	An error that caused drawing a thick line in an hourly grid in a DailyCalendar one level lower than it should, corrected. Errors arising when a DailyCalendar was painted for some special data, eliminated. Some properties added. A new attribute Localizable(true) allowing to automatically prepare multilangauge resources in a Visual Studio designer added. A QueryAppointmentDrag event and EnsureVisible(...) methods were moved from a BaseCalendar to a RootCalendar class. Support for painting images for appointments and resources. For each appointment and/or resource an image to be painted near the text, can be selected from an ImageList. Switching between appointments using TAB and SHIFT-TAB keys when Edit in Place on a calendar is turned off using EnableEditInPlace corrected. A property AmPmMode allowing for selecting a way to display time (1...12 am/pm, 0...23 and system setting) added. Protection against setting a DailyCalendar.FirstResource property to an incorrect value added. Condition for serializing a ComboCalendar.VisibleDays property allowing for setting a view displayed by a ComboCalendar on a resource scheduler corrected. Restoring a state of a vertical scrollbar in a resource scheduler when new resources are added corrected. Drag&drop support, entering Edit in Place mode and double click support corrected. Drag&Drop is now called only after moving a mouse over some small distance. Edit mode is entered only after 1 second delay, so an operator has time to double click without entering EiP mode immediately. A possibility to limit a time period displayed by a calendar added. Using RootCalendar.MinDateand RootCalendar.MaxDate properties, the first and the last date displayed by a calendar can be set. Painting hourly grid in a ResourceScheduler when a resolution is HoursResolution.One(1h) and for small values of ResourceScheduler.CellWidth corrected. New time resolution of 20 minutes (HoursResolutions.TwentyMinutes) used by a resource scheduler and a daily calendar added. New weekly and biweekly resolutions added to a ResourceScheduler. New resolutions: HoursResolution.Two (2h), HoursResolution.Three (3h), HoursResolution.Four (4h) and HoursResolution.Six (6h) added to a ResourceScheduler. New resolutions: HoursResolution.Week (one week - 7 days), HoursResolution.TwoWeeks (2 weeks - 14 days added to a ResourceScheduler. *A new demo application based on ComboCalendar* added. It demonstrates editing appointments stored in an MS SQL database. New language versions: Danish, French, German, Polish added.** Wheelmouse support added. Vertical scrollbar can now be controlled using mouse's wheel. Moving a Selection between different calendar views in a ComboCalendar corrected. A new AppointmentCollection.SelectedCount property returning a number of appointments selected in a calendar selected. A way to paint a resource label in ResourceScheduler changed. The selected resource is painted using a different color. This color can be set using a ResourceScheduler.SelectedResourceColor property. Conditions for hiding a ToolTip windows changed. Now a tooltip is hidden when a mouse cursor is moved outside its area. Added a possibility to make dates bold in a ComboCalendar's LinkedCalendar containing appointments. A DailyCalendar.DaysLabelHeight property added. It determines a height of a label containing date in an upper part of a control. I the height different than the standard one is set, the date is displayed in a multilane mode. If a HoursResolution.One is set in a ResourceScheduler, then depending on ResourceScheduler.CellWidth every hour (for widths greater than 25) or every second hour is displayed. A new property Reason allowing to check what kind of change was done in an appointment was added to a AppointmentChangeArgs argument class. A ResourceScheduler.ShowWeekNumbers property was added. It allows displaying an extra line containing weekday numbers in a calendar's header. Additional ResourceScheduler.WeekFormat property allows formatting information displayed.
4.1 (01/09/05)	*Tooltips support added. New properties RootCalendar.ToolTipMode and Appointment.ToolTip* added. Printing support added. Printing is implemented as a BaseCalendar.Print method. It is also possible to print a calendar in a simplified way, without a background.** A bug resulting in error during Paint of a Monthly and Weekly calendar corrected. In some cases days in a calendar could overlap (ex. Tuesday was drawn over Monday). An error could also result in undefined behavior of a calendar. Support for multiple resources in a ComboCalendar corrected. A MonthlyCalendar appearance when using many resources corrected. A pair of dividers added. A red rectangle picture on the Today button in ComboCalendar toolbar added. Operation of a Scheduler button in a ComboCalendar's toolbar corrected.
4.0 (12/04/04)	New WeeklyCalendar and MonthlyCalendar calendars added. A ComboCalendar control managing other calendars added. New ComboDemo and OwnerDrawDemo demos added.
3.4 (9/20/04)	Permissions' attributes (CLSCompliant) added to an assembly. Calling via COM is now possible. A BaseCalendar.GetDayInfo event added. It enables setting parameters for individual days and resources. Corrected horizontal scrollbar operation in a DailyCalendar when a displayed date and/or resource is set. Drag&Drop operation modified. An appointment can now be dragged outside a calendar (to other controls) and an appointment can be dragged onto a calendar. Edit mode switching while a horizontal scrollbar is used to change a current date corrected. A new demo application demonstrating programming Drag&Drop and individual day settings.
3.3 (9/06/04)	Fixed operation in case number of resources was zero was corrected. A control did not allow for dragging&dropping appointments along a time axis. Adding a property AllowDateChange allowing to change a current date when a control is in use. A value of false allows a program's operator to block changing a current date. Adding a property AllDayVisible was added. Setting it to false allows for hiding a rectangle containing all-day appointments located in an upper part of a control. Adding a HitAppointment method that behaved incorrectly in case of overlapping standard and all day appointments was corrected.. This error caused problems when appoinments were selected with a mouse. Adding a property ShowFullDay was added. Setting it to true forces displaying a day on a calendar starting always at the first resource.
3.2 (7/17/04)	Adding a property Scrolls controlling display of horizontal and vertical scrollbars. Hiding an unused Text property in design mode. *Adding resource support to DailyCalendar.* Adding a horizontal scrollbar allowing for fast change of displayed dates range to a DailyCalendar. Adding Appointment.Progress values to a DailyCalendar control. Confirming Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 compatibility. Optimizing a ResourceCollection.AddRange method's algorithm. *Adding support for linked appointments in different resources in DailyCalendar.* See Appointment.LinkWithNext property. Adding possibility of controlling the way a boundary of two linked appointments change using a BaseCalendar.GrowMode property. Useful for hotel bookings and project duration change. Adding a possibility od horizontal and vartical alignment of text displayed by a DailyCalendar using TextAlign, TextAllDayAlign and TextHeaderAlign properties. Adding a possibility to display a current day and current time marker. Displaying them is controlled by a BaseCalendar.TodayMarkerVisible property. A color of a marker is BaseCalendar.TodayMarkerColor. Adding a ResourceScheduler.RowHeight property setting a single row (containing information on a single resource) height. Correcting appointment merge algorithm that in some cases errorneously flipped Appointment.LinkWithNext value. Adding a DateFont property controlling a font used to display a date in a ResourceScheduler. Adding a possibility od horizontal and vartical alignment of text displayed by a ResourceScheduler using TextAlign and ResourceAlign properties. A ResourceTextAlign property was removed.
3.1 (6/26/04)	Properties Appointment.Tag i Category.Tag allowing for storing additional information in these objects added. A ComponentGo.Forms.MsgBox object using properties to prepare MessageBox parameters added. Automatic switching a vertical and horizontal scrollbar into a disabled state when it is not needed. Initialisation of Size property of a DailyCalendar and a ResourceScheduler controls allowing for displaying a control correctly when it is added to a form. Verification of values assigned to a DailyCalendar.FirstDate property. Datetimes with times other than midnight are not allowed. Behaviour of ResourceScheduler and DailyCalendar controls in situations were there in no room for an appointment’s grid corrected.
3.0 (5/15/04)	Adding a new control ResourceScheduler.
2.2 (3/24/04)	Searching for the first appointment after a given datetime implemented. Integrated eSeller added to a demo application Saving to an ADO.NET dataset added to a demo application
2.1 (7/24/03)	A bug resulting in a GPF in a demo application on some localized version of Windows (also, including a few flavors of an English language) was removed. 'How to use...' section of this file updated.
2.0 (7/10/03)	Drag&Drop fully implemented Bugs in moving all-day appointments removed
1.1 (6/10/03)	Help updated. Some bugs removed.
1.0 (5/10/03)	Inauguration