DevComponents Knowledge Base

Some people want to display the number of appointments in a day of the month view instead of the appointments themselves. The way to achieve this is by overriding the default content template that is used for a a day of the month. This is done by defining a DataTemplate resource and assigning it a […]

Use following code to enumerate all appointments between two dates in Schedule control (applies to WinForms, WPF and Silverlight): C#: DateTime start = new DateTime(2014, 05, 07); DateTime end = start.AddDays(10); DateTime d = start; while (d <= end) { DevComponents.Schedule.Model.Day day = calendarView1.CalendarModel.GetDay(d); foreach (Appointment item in day.Appointments) { Console.WriteLine("Appointment: {0}-{1} {2}", item.StartTime, item.EndTime, […]

Toolbar is used to assist in arrangement and styling of a group of common Silverlight controls from such as Button, ToggleButton, RadioButton, ComboBox and TextBox along with common DevComponents controls such as DropDownButton, SplitButton and EnumPicker.  Toolbar follows the basic design of the Toolbar control which is included with WPF, for those familiar with that […]

CircularProgressControl is a progress control in circular format. It inherits properties Value, Minimum and Maximum from base class System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.RangeBase. As with the base class, the default value of Minimum is 0 and Maximum is 1. To display the value of Value in the control, set DisplayValue to true. This will make visible a text block […]

The Rating control allows users to select a “rating”. The Rating property is used to either get or set the current rating value. Rating is an integer within the range defined by 0 and the value of property MaxRating (which by default is 5.) Before the user has selected a value for Rating, it is […]

Both the header and content portions of individual days in the Month view of Silverlight Schedule can be customized. Here is a screen shot of a customization set up to repeat every Sunday: Customizations are defined via the ViewCustomizations Dependency Property of the CalendarView control. ViewCustomizations is a property of type CalendarViewCustomizations, which in turn […]

The background, border brush and border thickness of a range of time slots for single day in Day or Week Calendar views can be customized. Here is a screen shot of the time slots for Tuesday beginning at 8:00am customized to be yellow background and orange borders:   Note: Slot height is kept constant and […]

Silverlight Schedule control provides Outlook style scheduling functionality for your Silverlight applications. Schedule control is built on Model/View paradigm. The model represents the actual schedule, i.e. appointments and recurrence. The model objects can be found in the DevComponents.Silverlight.Schedule.Model namespace. The model used in the Silverlight version of Schedule is the same as the model used […]

Appointment views can be customized on global level, per calendar view (i.e. Day, Week, Month or Timeline) and/or on a per appointment basis. Use property Appointment.ViewDefinitions to define customizations on a per appointment basis. Use property CalendarModel.AppointmentViewDefinitions or CalendarView.ViewCustomizations to define customizations on a global level. CalendarView.ViewCustomizations is a property of type CalendarViewCustomizations, which in […]

DevComponents.Silverlight.Controls.SuperToolTip is ContentControl which, in addition to the inherited Content and ContentTemplate properties, exposes the following content properties: Header HeaderTemplate Footer FooterTemplate FooterImageSource – A Uri referencing the location of an image to display along side the footer. The following properties are used to control the timing and placement of the tool tip when it […]