Gantt Chart Light Library 4.1.10

Gantt Chart Light Library 4.1.10 is popular among many you as an efficient and simple application which contains numerous Windows client components. For example, task and resource scheduling controls, with increased runtime performance, standard DataGrid feature inheritance, data binding support, customizable look and feel, task and dependency drag and drop operations, support for displaying hierarchical resource groups and spreading conflicting assignments on multiple lines in a single row, resource leveling, culture awareness, printing and exporting support, undo/redo queue, two-way Microsoft Project XML compatibility, etc.

The interactive Gantt Chart and Schedule Chart controls within the product may be used to display all types of data that can be presented on a timeline (i.e. their date and time being incremented along the X-axis in a chart area), and can be used to display tasks, appointments, or other programmed activities for short or long periods of time. It is therefore easy to use these components to build project management, resource planning, activity scheduling, item programming, execution planning, equipment rental, location sharing, assembly-line production, and many other related types of applications.

Major Features:

1. Design Time Features of the Controls (for developers)
   • Integrate with Visual Studio development environment; reference documentation is available in Visual Studio style; supports all .NET languages, including but not limited to C# and Visual Basic .NET;
   • Very similar in appearance, behavior, and development related features with the standard DataGrid, and ItemsControl controls;
   • Allow data binding to custom data collections using either built-in or custom converters;
   • Allow managing task indentation, content, start and finish date and times, completion, assignments strings, predecessors, and expansion values, resource content values, allocation unit values, and bar tool tips, programatically;
   • Use standard DataGridColumn objects within the Columns definition to indicate custom columns to be displayed in the user interface, and the DataTreeGridColumn object to indicate the column to be displayed as a tree view;
   • Use customized Gantt Chart scale headers, such as one or more of the predefined time scales (hours, days, weeks, months, quarters, years) or other user defined time scales, using the Scales property;
   • Show or hide part of week days and/or part of day time in the Gantt Chart, using the Visible{Week|Day}{Start|Finish} properties;
   • Set up a custom schedule defining the working time to be used for determining and updating task date and times and time spans using the Working{Week|Day}{Start|Finish} and NonworkingIntervals properties;
   • Fully customize task and allocation bars, dependency lines, tree node expanders, and the general control user interface by using custom brushes, styles, and templates;
   • Print or export images representing the task or resource grid and/or its associated Gantt Chart;
   • Import/export data from/to Microsoft Project XML files;
   • Ability to load large collections of items, using an optional, enabled by default, asynchronous load mechanism; the component has been designed for optimal performance;
   • Support for displaying resources as collapsible hierarchical groups;
   • Support for displaying time conflicting assignment bars of each resource either horizontally overlapped, or vertically spread on multiple lines associated to each single data grid row, automatically increasing its height;
   • Allows the developer to enable an internal undo queue to automatically record item changes and undo or redo them later;
   • Extensibility is provided through exposed properties, events, and type inheritance support.
2. Runtime Features of the Controls (for end users)
   • Ability to expand and close tasks, and/or update existing task values either from the data grid or from the Gantt Chart using drag and drop operations;
   • The current culture (language and region) set by the end user (using the Regional and Language Options) is used by default for displaying and retrieving values such as numbers or dates and times;
   • The standard Aero theme provided by the most recent operating systems (or simulated for other operating systems) in WPF applications, or the standard theme provided by the platform in Silverlight applications, is used by default.

• Added an internal undo/redo queue that you can enable using IsUndoEnabled property of Gantt Chart and Schedule Chart controls within build 4.1.10 of Gantt Chart Light Library for Silverlight 4/WPF 4, allowing you to easily provide Gantt Chart item-related undo/redo support in your application.