Scheduler for ASP.NET AJAX

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Overview

We studied the proven usability of Outlook®, then we added innovative ways to input data similar to Google Calendar and that’s how the Telerik ASP.NET Scheduler control was born. Now you can add rich scheduling UI to any ASP.NET application and enjoy a lightweight yet highly customizable component. Impress your users with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, handy inline or pop-up edit forms, and no-refresh AJAX experience.

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Features

Day, Week, Month and Timeline Views

The ASP.NET Scheduler control by Telerik uses a single control to display the Day, Week, Month and Timeline Views. This feature ensures simplified deployment, much better flexibility and saves the need to write or modify the logic behind for all different view controls to make them work as one control. Added to that, you can set your preferences from one place to apply to all views.

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Support for Any Scheduling Data Source

Telerik Scheduler component supports all standard ASP.NET data sources with scheduling data. Its flexible provider model allows flexible binding to any external datasources and a better control over the data source configuration. Unlike other scheduling controls, Telerik RadScheduler has no preset restrictions for database schemes, which saves you the trouble of manually modifying predefined database models. Additionally, you are able to bind generic lists of data, which are the lightweight alternative of standard datasources. Another major point of scalability is that RadScheduler is optimized for processing huge databases by loading only the data to display on the current schedule view.

A unique feature of Telerik Scheduler is the ability to bind it directly to WebServices, resulting in major performance enhacements. You can perform various operations on the client such as add/remove appointments. In this mode all operations are forwarded to a Web Service for processing using JSON calls for data transfer. This completely eliminates the need for postbacks and improves server load and bandwidth usage. With all these Client-side improvements RadScheduler is now ASP.NET MVC-ready

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Extensive VS.NET Design-time Support
Telerik ASP.NET Scheduler control provides rich design-time support functionality making customizations and configurations very easy. Some of the key capabilities are:
- Applying skins in design time
- New Builder dialog
- Easily switch between RadScheduler skins - the AutoFormat command in RadScheduler Smart tag automatically detects the preset skins
- Design-time support for declarative data sources
- Hierarchical binding to flat data sources
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Custom Resources and Resource Grouping

The Scheduler control by Telerik allows you to define custom resources that can be assigned to the appointments. Custom resources let you associate additional information with your appointments, where the information for each field can be selected from a limited number of possibilities.For example you can load the appointments of different users on a single scheduler by simply choosing the name of the user from a drop down menu. The same applies for various resources such as meeting rooms, team events, etc.

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Because custom resources have a limited number of values, RadScheduler can group appointments based on the resources associated with them. For example, you can book different facilities for a variety of events.

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Rich Client-side API

The Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Scheduler has a rich client-side API and comprehensive set of events guaranteeing full control over various functions performed on the client. You can easily drag tasks to new times or days, resize tasks to change their length, or double-click to add a new task add/delete/update items at the client side and all the changes will be persisted on the server as well. The rich client-side API provides unbeatable performance and desktop-like experience.

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Search Engine Friendly

The ASP.NET Scheduler control completely follows the principles of Search Engine Optimization. The control's innovative rendering generates semantic lists and standard <a> tags, which are properly recognized and highly valued by search engines. As a result, all content accessible through this control will be automatically indexed and ranked with no extra effort required from the developer.
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XHTML and Accessibility Standards Compliancy

RadScheduler is compliant with the XHTML 1.1 requirement.

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Support for Microsoft Exchange Provider

The swift performance and simplified deployment are the trademarks of Telerik Scheduler control. The control is now further improved through support for Microsoft Exchange provider. This new feature allows developers to use the Exchange server as a data source for appointments. The synchronization is done in real time by using Exchange WebServices and the provider is available with full source code.

Additionally RadScheduler supports export to iCalendar. You can easily export your set of appointments to the iCalendar format.
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Templates Support

Templates give you freedom to modify the appearance of each appointment: add images, extend descriptions (location, participants); static content or other controls for additional custom functionality. Each control element can be declaratively customized in terms of appearance.

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Integrated Datepicker for Quick Navigation

A calendar has been implemented in RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX to offer a much more convenient way of selecting date/month/year.

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Inline and Detailed Editing Capabilities

The Telerik ASP.NET Scheduler enabled inline editing allowing you to add and modify your schedule tasks directly through the front-end. There a number of out-of-the box set of properties, such as recurrence, time slots, etc.

The advanced form allows for detailed editing of appointments and can be opened as a popup allowing to be moved/dragged. It features a description field where more detailed information about appointments can be entered.
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Support for Recurring Appointments

RadScheduler features the ability to configure repeating appointments with ultimate flexibility. Use the editing advanced options to apply recurring scheduling patterns such as daily, weekly, monthly or set a range of recurrence from a date to date. The flexible rule mechanism covers all possible recurrence scenarios. Recurrences are stored in the database as a single string, which guarantees easy implementation.

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Context Menus

The integrated context menus enable prompt customization of appointments. With this shortcut users are a mouse-click away from adding, removing, editing, and categorizing events in the schedule.

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Animations

With the integrated jQuery library in RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, you can achieve slick animations in your web application. See how RadScheduler benefits from the jQuery library and includes animations in its advanced edit form.

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Appearance

RadScheduler are shipped with a rich set of skins that allow you to easily build slick interfaces with the look-and-feel of Windows Vista, Office 2007, Outlook, etc. The skins can be easily switched using a single property.

Additionally RadScheduler exposes many properties that allow you to customize its appearance. The individual parts such as header and footer might be turned on or off. The format of the dates displayed in various places can be customized.

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Codeless Test Automation for RadScheduler

Now you can record, execute and debug functional tests for RadScheduler without leaving the familiar Visual Studio environment. Telerik WebUI Test Studio is an advanced click and play web application testing tool specialized for automating ASP.NET AJAX applications. The Studio ships with special translators for Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX.

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