DlhSoft Gantt Chart Library for Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) and .NET 4+

Related products/versions: for Silverlight™, for WPF 3.5, for Windows® Forms, more

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Gantt Chart Library for WPF 4 contains task hierarchy and resource scheduling controls with data binding support, customizable look and feel, task and dependency drag and drop operations, critical path enumeration, baseline visualization, resource leveling, culture and theme awareness, printing and exporting support, resource allocation load chart output, Microsoft Project® XML compatibility*, extended Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern based development support (Prism), etc.

The interactive Gantt Chart and Schedule Chart controls within the product may be used to display all types of data that can be presented on a timeline (i.e. their date and time being incremented along the X-axis in a chart area), and can be used to display tasks, appointments, or other programmed activities for short or long periods of time. It is therefore easy to use these components to build project management, resource planning, activity scheduling, item programming, execution planning, equipment rental, location sharing, assembly-line production, and many other related types of applications.

Developers may reference, configure, and optionally extend the components within their applications using any of the .NET programming languages available, including C#, Visual Basic® .NET (VB), and C++/CLI, and any Visual Studio® edition that supports .NET 4+.

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern development enabled
Activity management logic available as separated assembly

The current product build is 4.0.3 (see also what's new).

Licensed components may be redistributed royalty-free within your applications.
Source code is also available with a Business Plus license.

We will develop and add new features requested by customers to future product builds for free if we consider that they enable high valued and common development scenarios. Moreover, we can customize and integrate the components into an application or larger solution based on your specific requirements, as we also offer a full range of convenient software development services.

* Features requested by customers that have been developed and added to previous product builds for free.

By purchasing a license for a specific product version you obtain the ability to upgrade for free to any future build of the same major product version, provided that you continue to use the licensed components available in the original package. We also offer high discount rates to supplementary license new components within future product versions, to upgrade to any future major product versions, such as updated platform redesigns and rebuilds, or to migrate to a related product, whenever logically applicable.

Regardless of legal guarantee limitations specified within the End User License Agreement (EULA) documents of our products, we aim to provide free and unlimited support services to all customers, including answering technical questions and resolving reported issues by providing updated builds and specific hot fixes, at the maximum possible responsiveness level, even while using the trial version of our software.

Note:
This product is a subset of Project Management Library for WPF 4.

Important note:
Gantt Chart Light Library for Silverlight™ 4/WPF 4 is a newer related product that includes controls similar to some of the components within this product, but designed to get significantly higher runtime performance, and to be able to run also on the Silverlight™ platform.

Using Gantt Chart Library software developers can:

• Display and allow end users to update an (indentation based) hierarchical list of tasks within the GanttChartTaskListView control; grid columns can be fully customized and templated:

  

  <pdgcc:GanttChartTaskListView>
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 1" IndexString="1"/>
      [...]
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 2" IsExpanded="True" IndexString="6"/>
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 2.1" Indentation="1" Start="{x:Static sys:DateTime.Today}" Effort="16:00:00"                  IsCompleted="True" IndexString="7"/>
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 2.2" Indentation="1" Start="{x:Static sys:DateTime.Today}" Effort="08:00:00"                  CompletedEffort="06:00:00" IndexString="8"/>
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 2.3" Indentation="1" IsExpanded="True" IndexString="9" PredecessorsString="8"/>
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 2.3.1" Indentation="2" Start="{x:Static sys:DateTime.Today}" Effort="1.16:00:00"                  IndexString="10" Cost="2000"/>
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 2.3.2" Indentation="2" Start="{x:Static sys:DateTime.Today}" Effort="08:00:00"                  IndexString="11" PredecessorsString="10"/>
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 3" Start="{x:Static sys:DateTime.Today}" Effort="12:30:00"                  CompletedEffort="02:30:00" IndexString="12" PredecessorsString="9, 11SS+12"/>
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 4" Start="{x:Static sys:DateTime.Today}" Effort="16:00:00"                  AssignmentsString="Resource 1" IndexString="13"/>
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 5" Start="{x:Static sys:DateTime.Today}" Effort="20:00:00"                  AssignmentsString="Resource 1, Resource 2 [50%]" IndexString="14"/>
      <pd:TaskItem Content="Task 6" Start="{x:Static sys:DateTime.Today}" IsMilestone="True" IndexString="15"                  PredecessorsString="14+2"/>
      <pdgcc:GanttChartTaskListView.AssignableResourceItems>
          <pd:ResourceItem Content="Resource 1" CostPerUsage="100" CostPerHour="10"/>
          <pd:ResourceItem Content="Resource 2" CostPerHour="20"/>
      </pdgcc:GanttChartTaskListView.AssignableResourceItems>
  </pdgcc:GanttChartTaskListView>

• Fully customize the chart and item appearance, including for individual entries in the view:

  

• Fully customize the chart scales, zoom level, and the visible and working times of day and week in the view:

  

• Fully customize the working time schedule of the entire set of tasks, of an individual task, or even of an individual assignable resource:

  

• Highlight the critical path items in the view:

  

• Filter displayed tasks based on fully customizable criteria, such as based on resource assignments:

  

• Display and allow end users to update the assignable resource list and their task assignments within the ScheduleChartResourceListView control; grid columns can be fully customized and templated:

  

• Alternatively, display and/or allow end users to update the task hierarchy and resource scheduling information within simple GanttChartView and ScheduleChartView controls, without attached list views, or within TaskListView and ResourceListView controls, without attached chart areas:

  

  

  

• Display resource allocation information within the LoadChartView control, either for a single resource item, such as that being currently selected in an external drop down list, or for multiple resource items, within the LoadChartResourceListView control:

  

  

Provided the flexibility and extensibility of the included components, complex functionality can also be achieved when needed in advanced scenarios, without modifying the original source code of the software (although the source code is available with Business Plus licenses):

• Fully customize the task bar templates, such as to enable inline task value editing, or presenting multiple bars (e.g. planned vs. actual timing values), supplemental textual information, and timeline bound marker icons in the chart:

  

• Customize the view and include code to present and accept day and week numbers instead of specific date and time values:

  

• Customize the view and include code to present and accept custom task identifiers instead of numeric indexes when defining predecessors:

  

A comprehensive list of product features is available for review. More details, such as get started guidelines, sample applications, and questions and answers are available in the online product documentation. You can also run a live demo of the product (ClickOnce application).

Note that in order to be able to build and run the sample application code available within the product documentation, you are required to download and install the software package.

You can download, install, and test the software package for free, for as long as needed. If you find the software useful and you would like to use it in production, you need to purchase and install the product license on your computer(s). Don't hesitate to request support whenever needed.

The product requires Microsoft® Windows® 7, Vista®, XP, Server® 2008, 2003, or a more recent compatible version and Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) within Microsoft® .NET Framework 4 or a more recent compatible version, and integrates with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 or a more recent compatible version and Microsoft® Expression® Studio 4 or a more recent compatible version.

Reference documentation is available in Visual Studio® style. The controls can be used in Windows® and browser (XBAP) applications.

You may also want to review information about the related products available:

• Project Management Library for WPF and .NET 4:
  Includes Gantt Chart and supplemental project management controls and related classes;
• Gantt Chart Light Library for Silverlight™ 4/WPF and .NET 4:
  Includes controls similar to some of the components within this product, but designed to get significantly higher runtime performance, and using the base DataGrid control (instead of ListView).

Other versions of this product are available:

• for WPF and .NET 3.5 SP1
• for Windows® Forms and .NET 2.0 SP2