How to create a scheduling grid in ASP.NET

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I am working on the prototype for a scheduling application on an intranet system. The application is for scheduling and tracking promotional workers at various locations on various dates.

Currently, only for prototyping, I am generating a data table of location/date, and from this I iteratively build an HTML table (asp:Table control). On visiting each cell, I query for people working that location-date and populate the cell accordingly. This is very inefficiant, and will at worst be improved by querying cached data for the whole location/date grid.

I'm looking around for established patterns and techniques for dealing with scenarios like this in HTML in general, maybe a visualisation library for jQuery or something, and for ASP.NET in particular, maybe a library for implementation on a GridView etc.

Am I going in the right direction with this, and if so, what recomendations are there regarding the previous paragraph?

Posted 12-Apr-10 3:42am

Brady Kelly

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jaydelg · Answer 1 · 2010-04-12T12:09:00

For $200 you can purchase the devexpress scheduling control that may do what you want it to... This probably doesn't help you because you sound like yoiu are looking on using a table to display your data. I've used this control on several scheduling projects and it works quite well even with large amounts of data. Maybe their grid control would help you out as well.

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/ASP/Scheduler/[^]