creating a schedule similar to sunbirt/outlook ....

Hey guys,
I'm working on an windows application for an institute, let me elaborate a bit,
It gets the hours for classes (7-8:30, 9-10:30 ...) and also number of classrooms ( 1, 2, ....) then using these two collection of data I want to create a schedule like Sunbird, I have hours and classrooms therefore there is a vertical column (classrooms) and horizontal columns (hours).
what I have in mind is to create a 2*2 matrix and each cell will have id and that way I can check the status of it, but how can i display it visually ? I can't use datagridview, and this is dynamic so I can't pre-define the cells.
what do you suggest for this ?
I'm open to new suggestions, maybe you've got a better idea than I do.

	
see we have the hours (which is taken form one table) and class rooms ( which is taken from another table)
so I dunno how many I'm going to have, I guess I have to get these values from the user then dynamically create a new table with these info.

regards,
K1

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You can do this with a list-view, filling out the columns dynamically. You'll need to put the 'view' property to 'details'. I do something similar in my code below. The only thing is that I'm not certain if a list view allow you to select any cell or only column zero. The latter is the default behavior and I haven't checked if their is a property to change this.

The fact that your data is updated dynamically doesn't prevent you from using a datagridview, though. You can always build a new datatable dynamically and re-source based on an event. I have an application where I change the datagridview source table based on a groupbox selection.

lview_recipeList.Clear();
                    lview_recipeList.Columns.Add("Recipe ID");
                    lview_recipeList.Columns.Add("Description");

                    foreach (KeyValuePair _recipe in _recipes){
                        string _id         = _recipe.Key.ToString();
                        string _desc    = _recipe.Value.ToString();
                        ListViewItem item = new ListViewItem(new string[] {_id,_desc});
                        lview_recipeList.Items.Add(item);
                    }

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Steve Jackson16y ago
You can do this with a list-view, filling out the columns dynamically. You'll need to put the 'view' property to 'details'. I do something similar in my code below. The only thing is that I'm not certain if a list view allow you to select any cell or only column zero. The latter is the default behavior and I haven't checked if their is a property to change this.

The fact that your data is updated dynamically doesn't prevent you from using a datagridview, though. You can always build a new datatable dynamically and re-source based on an event. I have an application where I change the datagridview source table based on a groupbox selection.

lview_recipeList.Clear();
                    lview_recipeList.Columns.Add("Recipe ID");
                    lview_recipeList.Columns.Add("Description");

                    foreach (KeyValuePair _recipe in _recipes){
                        string _id         = _recipe.Key.ToString();
                        string _desc    = _recipe.Value.ToString();
                        ListViewItem item = new ListViewItem(new string[] {_id,_desc});
                        lview_recipeList.Items.Add(item);
                    }