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Similar to Microsoft Outlook -
look-and-feel and interaction methods (with a keyboard or mouse) are similar to
universally known Microsoft Outlook interface.
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Resource manager – allows you to
manage available resources in time (hotel rooms, employees performing tasks,
availability of various devices, cars, etc.) in a daily view.
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Full control over color from a Visual Designer — all the controls'
colors can be easily adjusted
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Drag&drop support – a mouse can
be used to change appointments' time and duration. It is easy to implement
period and resource locking.
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Printing support - calendars can be
printed or rendered as bitmaps in a WYSIWYG mode or a simplified mode (without
a coloured background - only frames).
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Recurrence support - allows setting up
repeated appointment. Additionally, there are available controls designed for editing
of a recurrence settings in a Microsoft Outlook fashion.
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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.
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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.
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Simple programming - a simple data
model and structure similar to other .NET controls simplify using ComponentGo
controls in your code.
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Programming interface shared by CalendarGo and
ResourceScheduler controls - facilitates interchanging both
controls to visualise various aspects of the same data.
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Analogue and digital clocks – allow
for presenting appointment’s start and end time on digital (hh:mm) and analogue
clocks.
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Hiding non-fitting hours - when the
width of cells is insufficient to accommodate hours and appointment text, hours
are automatically hidden improving readability.
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Week view selection – it is
possible to determine whether a first displayed day should be Sunday or Monday
or whether Saturday and Sunday should fit into one column.
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Holiday support - special events
facilitating implementing holidays painted with different colours.
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On-demand data access - a
RequestAppointment event allowing for efficient reading only necessary data,
optimising data access from a data source (ex. SQL).
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Edit In Place - allowing for
editing an Appointment text directly on a calendar
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Owner draw
- allows for implementing one's own algorithm for drawing an appointment on the
screen
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Design Mode support - control can
be modified using properties view in Windows Forms design mode.
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Multilingual – using system language settings allows operation
in any language.
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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.
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Auto merging
- two appointments can be easily merged when they are placed next to exach
other.
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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.
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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.