With the new SP1 release of Q3 2010 we added a new feature to RadScheduleView that helps you customize every slot in a different way.

To do that you should create an instance of the Slot class, set its Start and  End  properties,

the Resources property - with this property you can define in which resource column the slot will be displayed,

and the RecurrencePattern property - with this property you can define whether the slot will be displayed for repeating days or events like Christmas, WeekendDays  and Birthdays.


For example let's say that we have a schedule control ...

As many of you noticed Telerik Scheduler was relesead with a completely new look of the edit appointment dialog.

Some of the things inside the dialog are just redesigned, however some of them are completely new like the categories,time markers and the importance buttons. Today I will give you more information about them:

 

Categories:

There are some built-in categories in RadScheduler and in  its edit dialog. A category can be assigned to an appointment by choosing one from the dialog on through code behind like this:

Then the category will appear in the appointment:

and in the edit dialog:...

We have recently introduced a new feature  in RadScheduler for Silverlight/WPF -  Resource Grouping. Now I will tell you more about how to customize the look and feel of the appointments in every resource group including the header of this group.

All you have to do is set a ResourceStyleMapping object associated with every resource:

 

Using this object you can set the following properties:

ResourceName - the name of the resource that should be associated with this style

ResourceType - the name of the type, to which the resource belongs

ResourceBrush - the value of this property is ...

Once again we kept our promise and we are happy to introduce to you the Resource Grouping of Telerik Scheduler for Silverlight and WPF - the most requested feature for this control.
 
Multiple Resources, Resource Grouping,new design of Edit Appointment dialog and TimeLineView are the new features coming with Beta1 release due in the second half of this month.
 
Here are a few screenshots on the upcoming new features:

 

 

Stay tuned to see what else we have prepared for you in the upcoming Beta release!

We received a couple of questions on how some of the days and hours in the different views of RadScheduler can be customized.

The answer of this question is in the attached application illustrating how working hours and days can be  marked in orange.

 The solution includes 3 easy steps :

1. Create a custom theme using the default RadScheduler' theme.
2. Create a ValueConverter returning the right color depending on the hour/day.
3. Find the style applied to every hour(timeslot) and apply the converter to the Background property.

To create a custom theme you can follow the steps below:

1. Create ...

In the upcoming Q2 release RadScheduler  will include a new property called AppointmentTemplateSelector. This property will be included in both  Silverlight and WPF versions of the control.

Using it,  you will be able to easily apply different DataTemplate  to the appointments by any custom condition.

All you need to do is to create a custom class inheriting from the  DataTemplateSelector class and override the SelectTemplate method.

 

For example: