DayPilot News Blog

DayPilot 2.0.1 (open-source Outlook-like calendar for ASP.NET) was just released.

What's new

• FIX Wrong placing of events in IE6 when DayPilot was inside a div with text-align: center or right.
• CHANGE Default header height changed to 21 pixels (minimum for this font).
• See the download page.

Compatibility

DocTypes:

• HTML 4.01 Transitional
• XHTML 1.0 Transitional
• XHTML 1.1

Browsers:

• Firefox 1.5
• Internet Explorer 6.0

See also

• Roadmap
• Live demo
  
• Donate!

DayPilot 2.0 beta 1 introduced a multiple-days view. It turned out that day headers are necessary so I added support for them in DayPilot 2.0 final release.

You can customize the day header by setting the following properties:

• ShowHeader (bool) - whether the header should be visible (default value: true)
  
• HeaderHeight (int) - specifies the header height in pixels (default value: 25)
• HeaderDateFormat (string) - specifies the header format the same way as DateTime.ToString(string) does (default value: "d", short date format)
  

I've compiled some examples of HeaderDateFormat values for your convenience.

New features since DayPilot 1.1:

• Multiple days can appear in one control
• Supports day headers (see new properties ShowHeader, HeaderHeight and HeaderDateFormat)
  
• API Change: Property "Date" is now replaced by "StartDate" and "EndDate"
• Hour height is now reducible down to 30 pixels without additional tweaking
• Several fixes
  
• Tested with XHTML 1.0 Transitional and HTML 4.01 Transitional doctypes
• Tested with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Firefox 1.5
• See the download page.
  

What's coming soon:

• An updated demo (for multiple days and day headers)
  

What's moved to a next release (2.1):

• Additional data sources support (DataView and SqlDataSource)
• Modifiable fonts and colors (if you need to change it you need to alter the source code for the moment)
• See the roadmap.
  

I'd like to thank all the users of DayPilot who found the time to send me code improvements and suggestion for the new releases.

The thanks go especially to:

• Ken Tilley (DayPilotHeader class)
• Chris Sutherland (binding from an array list)
• Alan Juden (new properties)
• Rodrigo Hernandez (properties for colors, etc.)
• Dimitris Kastaniotis (suggestion: Selected values)
• Jonathan Edney (suggestion: SqlDataSource)
• Craig Glover (suggestion: multiple resources support)
• David Pulliam (suggestion: DataView)
  

I'm examining all the contributions carefully and most of them will appear (as they are or modified to fit the future version plans) in the next releases. Thank you!