A ResourceScheduler control is a WindowsForms control allowing for management of time and resources (hotel rooms, employees, devices, cars etc). It is possible to create a set of linked appointments, that allows planning tasks involving many resources, and implementing a convenient way of moving, splitting and merging such multisegment appointments. Time resolution can be set at 5 minutes to one day. A programming interface coherent with DailyCalendar inteface allows for easy interchange of these controls. This facilitates programming within Microsoft Visual Studio® environment, using Visual Design mode, and interfacing with XML, ADO.NET, WebServices, etc.

Sample application written in Visual Basic .NET demonstrates how to use DailyCalendar control (a ResourceScheduler can be used in a similar way) with a Microsoft Access database. Shows a calendar storing appointments' data in a database. Application communicates with a database using ADO.NET and Appointment.Tag property.

• Resource manager – allows you to manage available resources in time (hotel rooms, employees performing tasks, availability of various devices, cars, etc.)
• Similar to Microsoft Project – make your software using a ResourceScheduler control look like management tools in Microsoft Project.
• Full control over color from a Visual Designer — all the controls' colors can be easily adjusted
• Drag&drop support – a mouse can be used to change appointments' time and duration. It is easy to implement period and resource locking.  
• Printing support - calendars can be printed or rendered as bitmaps in a WYSIWYG mode or a simplified mode (without a coloured background - only frames).
• Recurrence support - allows setting up repeated appointment. Additionally, there are available controls designed for editing of a recurrence settings in a Microsoft Outlook fashion.
• Defining tooltips - allows to assign additional information displayed after pointing to an appointment with a mouse. When a full text of an appointment does not fit a frame, a tooltip displays it in an enlarged window.
• 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.
• Simple programming - a simple data model and structure similar to other .NET controls simplify using ComponentGo controls in your code.
• Programming interface shared by CalendarGo and ResourceScheduler controls - facilitates interchanging both controls to visualise various aspects of the same data.
• Holiday support - special events facilitating implementing holidays painted with different colours.
• On-demand data access - a RequestAppointment event allowing for efficient reading only necessary data, optimising data access from a data source (ex. SQL).
• Edit In Place - allowing for editing an Appointment text directly on a calendar
• Adjustment of a time axis - setting resolution from 5 minutes to 24 hours.
• Linked appointments - allowing to work with groups of appointments simultaneously (one task is split between many resouces)
• Progress value - indicates ex. degree of task completion.
• Owner draw - allows for implementing one's own algorithm for drawing an appointment on the screen.
• Multiple columns for a resource - each resource can have multiple columns assigned. This allows you to describe multiple aspects of its operation.
• Design Mode support - control can be modified using properties view in Windows Forms design mode.
• Differently ended appointments - ability to change appointment rectangle ends.
• Multilingual – using system language settings allows operation in any language.
• Split Mode – allows splitting an appointment into two linked segments using a mouse. This makes it possible for a single appointment to use many resouces.
• Auto merging - two appointments can be easily merged when they are placed next to exach other.
• Current day and current time marker - a possibility to display a current day and current time marker. A color of a marker is BaseCalendar.TodayMarkerColor.
• Reading from and saving to ADO.NET - A demo program writing Appointments objects to and reading them from an SQL database using ADO.NET and any data structure.

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