If have been trying for a couple of days to get the calender to serialize.

Is there an example of adding some items to the calender then binary serializing it?

Ive tried making my own custom appointment class like tutorial 4 but need an example of how to call the overloaded saveto and loadfrom methods.

Even better would be to have an example of
           
Calendar.Schedule.SaveTo(FileName, MindFusion.Scheduling.ContentType.Binary)

so that the Calender.Shedule can be serialized with everything thats inside it.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Dave

Thanks Meppy!

I have custom classes inheriting from Scheduling.Appointment working now.

I have been trying to figure out how to get classes to inherit from MindFusion.Scheduling.Item because it contains the Scheduling.TaskCollection and I want to have a list of Tasks for each item.

I have not been able to get an inherited class to work yet. I am using my custom classes for all of its sub classes and have added them all like:

       Schedule.RegisterItemClass(GetType(Projects.Appointment), "Projects.Appointment", 1)
       Schedule.RegisterItemClass(GetType(Projects.Contact), "Projects.Contact", 1)
       Schedule.RegisterItemClass(GetType(Projects.Location), "Projects.Location", 1)
       Schedule.RegisterItemClass(GetType(Projects.PurchaseOrder), "Projects.PurchaseOrder", 1)
       Schedule.RegisterResourceClass(GetType(Projects.Resource), "Projects.Resource", 1)
       Schedule.RegisterItemClass(GetType(Projects.ScheduleItem), "Projects.ScheduleItem", 1)
       Schedule.RegisterItemClass(GetType(Projects.Style), "Projects.Style", 1)
       Schedule.RegisterItemClass(GetType(Projects.Task), "Projects.Task", 1)
       UIMain.Calendar.InteractiveItemType = GetType(Projects.ScheduleItem)
       UIMain.Calendar.Visible = False


Is it possible or recomended to do it this way?

Would you be able to provide any example of this if it is recomended?

Another thing I noticed is when I tested the working Scheduling.Appointment custom classes , the only way they are displaying in Month view or MonthRange view is when the standard theme is being applied to the calender.

All the other themes only display items in the WeekRange mode.

Is there something that needs to be done to make this work in when not wanting to use the standard theme?

Thanks Dave

[quote author=Meppy date=02/13/08 at 01:11:22]It is not necessary to derive directly from Item in order to take advantage of the Tasks collection. On the contrary, it is recommended to derive from Appointment which derives from Item and implements all of its abstract members and properties.

Thanks Meppy

I am almost there....I have trouble adding a task to an Appointment

I can't get at the tasks list in the Appointment base class

all I see is         

       UIMain.Calendar.Schedule.Tasks.Add(Task)

Can you show me an example of how this is done

I am looking for an Appointment object to have a list of tasks inside of it that I can add and remove from the Appointments tasks

I think this should be the last problem I have and then the rest should be easy

Thanks

Dave

The Item and Appointment classes allow only a single Task to be associated with them (through their Task property). If you need to attach more than one task at a time, you have to do this in your derived class.

Meppy

I have created a small application that illustrates how to create custom appointments associated with more than one task at once. You can download it from here:

https://mindfusion.org/_samples/_sample_AppointmentWithManyTasks.zip

Meppy

P.S.: Just now I noticed you are using VisualBasic as a programming language and the sample above is in C#. Let me know if you are having any difficulties with it.