DayPilot News (January 2015)

Monthly summary of new releases and articles - January 2015.
Jan 21, 2015

Releases

DayPilot Pro for ASP.NET WebForms 7.9 SP6 Dec 10, 2014

Improvements

  • [Scheduler] Links supported in the Scheduler. (build 3342)

Fixes

  • [Calendar] Mouse vs. touch event handling fixed on Windows 7, 8.0 (Calendar). (build 3341)
  • [Calendar] Parsing _scrollpos in Calendar fixed (decimal numbers accepted). Fixes "Input string was not in a correct format." error on PostBack in Chrome. (build 3344)
  • [Scheduler] Cell properties expanding fixed (Scheduler). (build 3345)

DayPilot Pro for JavaScript 7.9 SP6 Dec 10, 2014

Improvements

  • [Scheduler] onEventMoving/args.allowed supported (and *_shadow_forbidden CSS class). (build 1340)
  • [Scheduler] .dynamicEventRenderingMargin applied to background cells pre-rendering as well. (build 1342)
  • [Scheduler] .dynamicEventRenderingMargin applied to cells vertically (build 1344)
  • [Scheduler] .eventEndSpec handling applied to output values as well: onEventMove, onEventMoved, onEventMoving, onEventResize, onEventResized, onEventResizing, onTimeRangeSelect, onTimeRangeSelected, onTimeRangeSelecting, time range context menu (Scheduler). (build 1347)
  • [Scheduler] Mouse wheel scrolling of the row header (Scheduler). (build 1351)
  • [Gantt] .hideUntilInit added (default false) to Gantt (build 1358)
  • [Scheduler] Links API. (build 1362)
  • [Scheduler] onRowClick: args.row holds the row object - in addition to args.resource (Scheduler) (build 1369)

DayPilot Pro for ASP.NET WebForms 7.9 SP7 Dec 30, 2014

Improvements

  • Client-side update() allows changing .startDate if .timeline is cleared first. (build 3351)
  • Columns updated during callback (Gantt). (build 3353)
  • [Calendar] Visible property implemented (build 3354)
  • [Navigator] Visible property implemented (build 3354)
  • [Scheduler] Visible property implemented (build 3354)
  • [Month] Visible property implemented (build 3354)

DayPilot Pro for JavaScript 7.9 SP7 Dec 30, 2014

Improvements

  • DayPilot.Date.daysInYear() (build 1383)
  • [Scheduler] onBeforeCellRender, onCellMouseOver, onCellMouseOut, .cells.find...() cell objects unified: .properties, .div, .utilization(), .update() (Scheduler). (build 1385)
  • [Bubble] Global position detection: DayPilot.Bubble can be displayed right away using .showHtml(): new DayPilot.Bubble().showHtml(html[, div]) (build 1385)
  • [Scheduler] Animated scrollTo implementation: dp.scrollTo("2015-01-01", true); (Scheduler). (build 1385)
  • [Scheduler] Not loading events during animated scrolling (Scheduler). (build 1388)
  • Using built-in Date.prototype.toJSON. (build 1394)
  • [Scheduler] Setting border to "0 none" for heightSpec="Parent100Pct" (Scheduler). (build 1406)
  • [Scheduler] .scrollTo(date, animated, target) accepts target parameter: "left", "middle", "right" (Scheduler). (build 1410)
  • .visible property added (Calendar, Month, Scheduler, Gantt, Navigator). (build 1415)

Tutorials

ASP.NET MVC 5 Scheduler with Recurring Events Dec 10, 2014

asp.net mvc 5 scheduler recurrence

Features

This tutorial shows how to create, display and edit recurring events using DayPilot ASP.NET MVC Scheduler control.

  • ASP.NET MVC 5
  • Recurrence rules: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly
  • Rule exceptions (an occurrence has a different text, start date, or duration;  occurrence doesn't happen)
  • Stores the recurrence data in a single database field
  • Sample recurrence definition UI (modal dialog with rule options)
  • Allows editing the series or a specific occurrence
  • Visual Studio 2013 Solution
  • C# source code
  • VB.NET source code
  • SQL Server 2014 database (LocalDB)
  • Includes DayPilot Pro for ASP.NET MVC Trial version