Click here to Skip to main content
15,880,608 members
Articles / Web Development / HTML

Using DayPilot (Outlook-Like Calendar/Scheduling Control for ASP.NET)

Rate me:
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
4.83/5 (64 votes)
30 Mar 2015Apache7 min read 366.9K   4.2K   286  
Showing the features of a flexible ASP.NET event calendar/scheduling control.
using System;
using System.Data;

public partial class ThemeWhite : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            DayPilotCalendar1.StartDate = firstDayOfWeek(DateTime.Now, DayOfWeek.Sunday);
            DayPilotCalendar1.DataSource = getData();
            DataBind();
        }

    }

    protected DataTable getData()
    {
        DataTable dt;
        dt = new DataTable();
        dt.Columns.Add("start", typeof(DateTime));
        dt.Columns.Add("end", typeof(DateTime));
        dt.Columns.Add("name", typeof(string));
        dt.Columns.Add("id", typeof(string));
        dt.Columns.Add("color", typeof(string));

        DataRow dr;

        dr = dt.NewRow();
        dr["id"] = 0;
        dr["start"] = Convert.ToDateTime("13:30");
        dr["end"] = Convert.ToDateTime("16:00");
        dr["name"] = "Event 1";
        dt.Rows.Add(dr);

        dr = dt.NewRow();
        dr["id"] = 1;
        dr["start"] = Convert.ToDateTime("16:00").AddDays(1);
        dr["end"] = Convert.ToDateTime("17:00").AddDays(1);
        dr["name"] = "Event 2";
        dr["color"] = "red";
        dt.Rows.Add(dr);

        dr = dt.NewRow();
        dr["id"] = 2;
        dr["start"] = Convert.ToDateTime("9:15").AddDays(1);
        dr["end"] = Convert.ToDateTime("12:45").AddDays(1);
        dr["name"] = "Event 3";
        dt.Rows.Add(dr);

        dr = dt.NewRow();
        dr["id"] = 3;
        dr["start"] = Convert.ToDateTime("16:30");
        dr["end"] = Convert.ToDateTime("17:30");
        dr["name"] = "Sales Dept. Meeting Once Again";
        dt.Rows.Add(dr);

        dr = dt.NewRow();
        dr["id"] = 4;
        dr["start"] = Convert.ToDateTime("8:00");
        dr["end"] = Convert.ToDateTime("9:00");
        dr["name"] = "Event 4";
        dt.Rows.Add(dr);

        dr = dt.NewRow();
        dr["id"] = 5;
        dr["start"] = Convert.ToDateTime("22:00");
        dr["end"] = Convert.ToDateTime("6:00").AddDays(1);
        dr["name"] = "Event 5";
        dt.Rows.Add(dr);


        dr = dt.NewRow();
        dr["id"] = 6;
        dr["start"] = Convert.ToDateTime("11:00");
        dr["end"] = Convert.ToDateTime("13:00");
        dr["name"] = "Event 6";
        dt.Rows.Add(dr);

        return dt;

    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the first day of a week where day (parameter) belongs. weekStart (parameter) specifies the starting day of week.
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns></returns> 
    private static DateTime firstDayOfWeek(DateTime day, DayOfWeek weekStarts)
    {
        DateTime d = day;
        while (d.DayOfWeek != weekStarts)
        {
            d = d.AddDays(-1);
        }

        return d;
    }

    protected void DayPilotCalendar1_BeforeEventRender(object sender, DayPilot.Web.Ui.Events.Calendar.BeforeEventRenderEventArgs e)
    {
        string color = e.DataItem["color"] as string;
        if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(color))
        {
            e.DurationBarColor = color;
        }
    }
}

By viewing downloads associated with this article you agree to the Terms of Service and the article's licence.

If a file you wish to view isn't highlighted, and is a text file (not binary), please let us know and we'll add colourisation support for it.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Apache License, Version 2.0


Written By
Czech Republic Czech Republic
My open-source event calendar/scheduling web UI components:

DayPilot for JavaScript, Angular, React and Vue

Comments and Discussions