I was commissioned to build the following:
Web app to be accessed by all mobile devices - so no Flash/SilverLight/HTML5...
Main page will contain a calendar of current month (ability to navigate to other months is not required)
Each day should display one or more jobs (I am thinking 2 lines of text for each job), and each of these jobs may have a different color, depending on the time.
Database is SQL Server, hosted on GoDaddy, on the same hosting account as the page will live.
I am a newbie in web development and I would like to get some guidance of the best/easiest approach to implement this. Since I am a .Net Windows developer ASP.Net (or MVC) would be the preferred technology (unless you recommend a different one for this problem). I would really appreciate specific help on things like what control to use? Should I create a grid/table manually? How to customize each day's content, so it shows multiple jobs, each job being a couple of lines of text, but with specific color according to the job type?
(in WPF I would use templates, converters for color and everything data-bound. Do these things exist in Asp.Net?)
Thank you so much for your help!
Those links might help you:
Some javascript/JQuery calendar: http://www.webdesignbooth.com/9-useful-jquery-calendar-and-date-picker-plugins-for-web-designers/
A databound templated calendar control for Asp.Net: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/webforms/MellDataCalendar.aspx
You might look at jquery UI calendar or Telerik extension for MVC. It's not "fancy" but javascript.
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I have looked over other questions on this website, but am yet to find a solution that meets our requirements.
We need a Timeline control that makes it possible to display some HR information (distribution of consultants) over longer periods of time (months). The screenshot below illustrates the requirement.
We currently use a Windows-based component from a third party. We need this application to be visible on the web, including display on iPad devices. Are there any controls on the market that support this functionality?
I haven't explored many of the options yet, but I'm working on an application that uses DayPilot Lite (the open source version) from http://www.daypilot.org/ to display a calendar. The scheduler control looks like it could do something like what you're looking for.
maybe Telerik Scheduler
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/scheduler/examples/timelineview/defaultcs.aspx
Here's one from codeplex that might work...
http://timelinenet.codeplex.com/releases/view/11981
There's also the "viewer" approach you could take -- for example, you could put a view of Visio or MS Project, etc. in a window on your page. Not sure how interactive it would be, but if your need is just for view-only, it might work.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/ASPNETVisioCustomControl.aspx
Have you looked at Google Charts? Specifically you could, perhaps, use their Annotated Timeline.
Google charts have some serious issues if any asp.net project is deployed in IIS.
I am looking for a library to facilitate a nice UX for displaying a reservation calendar for a small bed and breakfast place. I would like to be able to show a calendar with maybe two views, being a high level 'year' view, showing high and low seasons, and basic indication of existing reservations, and a 'month' view showing more exact reservation details and allowing a user to submit a reservation request by using buttons or context menus.
I am in a very early part of the life cycle for this project and am looking for suggestions here rather than specific solutions, but what libraries and components are out there that I can look at and draw up a shortlist from?
For the sake of simplicity and speed of execution, I would consider the Telerik controls. If you're able to implement this in Silverlight then the calendar/schedule control pretty much gives you everything that you're asking for, really:
http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#ScheduleView/FirstLook
They also have a fair amount of configurable controls for .NET and JavaScript as well:
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/calendar/examples/functionality/specialdays/defaultcs.aspx
If you just want a solution that doesn't require integration into the .NET code then the jQueryUI JavaScript library may be useful. It merely takes data coming back from the page load or a service request and displays it for you:
http://jqueryui.com/demos/
Hope that's helpful.
Ext JS could be a viable option, then you could use a scheduling product that I have created. This demo could be pretty close to what you need: http://ext-scheduler.com/examples/html5/html5.html (try it in FireFox or Chrome for best experience). Integrates easily with ASP.NET too.
Other options would be FullCalendar (jQuery), ASPxScheduler by DevExpress.
I've got an asp.net application where each client will have their own data entry forms. I'm a bit tired of reinventing this wheel. Does anyone have any good experience with an "off the shelf" component for rapidly building such forms?
The component will need to fit within an existing asp.net site and support layout of the fields, not just "dumping" the fields on the page. The data needs to go back to a database for querying (but can use it's own schema) and some light level of workflow needs to be supported (mostly around completion status). Infopath is a non-starter due to its requirements for sharepoint etc, but if you're thinking along those lines, you have some idea of what I'm looking for. The system must be open for modification as I'm sure we won't be able to find something that does everything we need.
Doesn't matter if it is OSS or commericial.
Thanks!
We've used FeedBack Server here in the past and it worked out pretty good.
Microsoft lightswitch.
Telerik widgets in a web page.
I'm looking to find a decent calendar control for an ASP.Net application that allows each day to have an "ItemTemplate" type of declaration so that I can list things that are happening within each day. Something like the Club Starter Kit, only more robust and that can handle other datasources besides DataSets and DataTables.
I'm thinking about fixing that control to handle other types of datasources, but would much rather go with something better if I can find one. I'd even be able to work with some kind of client side "calendar" if one was available.
We actually ended going with the calendar control out of the Club Starter Kit (http://clubstarterkit.codeplex.com/) as the updated versions did what we needed them to do.
BaseCalendar may work (you can customize everything).
I want to build into mt ASP.NET application the ability for users to fill up forms, but the forms are not something I can hard-code into my (Enterprise) software.
So I need one screen that lets end users create the forms. Doing it the 2.0 way, I just love what PollDaddy did in their survey editor (great job guys!). How do I replicate that? (don't worry pollDaddy, my app has nothing to do with survey and I am not at all in your domain (-: )
Since you need to login to the site to play with it, I made a 20 sec video of how it looks like. Please see below and tell me how to best replicate this (as simple as using JQuery tip? use an entire open source project? Buy something?)
Requirements are:
support multiple types of elements (like multiple choice, free text, comboBox)
drag and drop
editing of order
click image for video or here
http://frame.revver.com/frame/120x90/1376799.jpg
The AJAX control toolkit is free and would work for some of this items shown in the video. However, JQuery has tons of plugins it is easy to extend and even easier to use. I would suggest starting there and extending it where needed.
Good Luck
You could build it yourself using an AJAX framework like ASP.NET AJAX or even telerik controls. You could use jQuery but ASP.NET AJAX is free and embeds well with ASP.NET pages. You could buy something, but I've yet to encounter packages as such.