What’s New in DXperience 12.1

WinForms Scheduler Control

Bar and Ribbon UI

In DXperience v2012 vol 1, our WinForms SchedulerControl includes design-time improvements to simplify the process of creating Bar or Ribbon UI for your next calendar/scheduling application. You can now use a scheduler smart tag to automatically generate required toolbars in less than a minute and you do not have to write a single line of code.

Additionally, we have extended the set of toolbars available for the SchedulerControl. Your end-users can perform the following basic operations in a scheduler via a toolbar or Ribbon UI:

• Import and export scheduler data using the iCalendar (.ics) format.
• Print a scheduler, show its print preview and specify print settings.
• Navigate through dates.
• Zoom in and zoom out of the scheduler area.
• Change active view.
• Specify scheduler view layouts.
• Select the type of grouping for scheduler data.
• Select time scales.
• Create, edit and delete simple and recurring appointments.

ResourcesTree Filtering

With this release, the DevExpress ResourcesTree control supports an automatic filtering. This allows your end-users to filter resources on the fly by typing text into the auto-filter row - a filter condition is automatically created based upon the entered values, and applied to the focused column of the tree. After a filter has been applied, a filter panel can be optionally displayed. This panel contains a string representation of the applied filter criteria and can be used by end-users to do the following:

• Clear the filter.
• Temporarily disable and enable the current filter.
• Invoke a list of recently used filters.
• Open the Filter Editor to build complex filter criteria.

Animation Effects

A new option allows you to display an animation effect when end-users navigate through scheduler dates and resources.

Integration with RangeControl

The following features are now available between the DevExpress WinForms RangeControl and SchedulerControl:

• Two-way synchronization between SchedulerControl and RangeControl
• Auto switching a SchedulerControl view to the most appropriate display type for showing the time range selected in RangeControl
• Multi-level scales for RangeControl
• A set of predefined scale collections (hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, fixed-interval ) for RangeControl
• The ability to create custom scales and scale collections for RangeControl
• Auto-formats for header captions of RangeControl scales
• Clicking a scale header in RangeControl selects a corresponding time interval in RangeControl and displays it in SchedulerControl
• Two available types of appointment data projection in RangeControl - as numbers or thumbnails
• The ability to set the maximum number of intervals that can be selected in RangeControl
• A slider under RangeControl allows end-users to change the number of visible intervals in RangeControl and scroll the RangeControl area