As some of you already know, Planner.NET is the best .NET scheduling control available. We are running beta tests for version 3, which provides the following new features:

* Resource view *
A new view type, called Resource view, has been implemented. It displays the distribution of resources over an arbitrary period of time. Each resource is displayed in its own row in the view, and the horizontal position of items represents their time span.

* Styles and themes *
Styles have been redesigned to support cascading propagation of style attributes. For example, when a distinct DateStyle is defined for a range of dates, only the settings that are explicitly set in the custom style are used. Attributes defined in more specific styles override the attributes defined in more general styles. If a style leaves some attribute values undefined, the ones specified in a more general style or the current theme are used.

The themes have been redesigned too, so that applying a theme to the calendar in design time is a reversible operation. In previous versions applying a theme caused a lot of modifications of various settings of the control, which were hard to control or undo.

* Resources *
The Resource class implements a new general type of resources that can be assigned to schedule items along with contacts, locations and tasks.

* Timetable enhancements *
Now the timetable view can display cells with accuracy down to the second. The deprecated property MinutesPerCell has been replaced by CellTime, which allows specifying arbitrary periods of time for timetable cells with seconds precision.

* A new theme *
A brand new theme called Lila has been added. It's just cool

* Miscellaneous features *

- Three new methods added to the Calendar class allow manipulation of resource rows in a resource view: CollapseResourceRow, ExpandResourceRow and IsResourceRowExpanded.

- The minimal length of items created interactively can now be controlled via the MinItemLength property.

- A new item editor has been added, which allows modifying the item’s description as well as the item’s header text. The editor is implemented by the ItemEditorEx class. In order to use this editor as well as any item editor other than the default, you have to create a custom item class. Tutorial 5 sheds more light on this issue.

- The Timetable view can be zoomed in or out. To enable zooming, set the UseZoom property of the calendar’s TimetableSettings. The ZoomFactor property of the latter is used to specify the zoom level.

- Resources property has been added to the Item class. It can be used to associate Resource objects with an item.

A beta copy is available for download here:
https://mindfusion.org/_beta/PlannerTrial.zip

Enjoy!