c# control name

Question

I would like ask about the name of the control that is used in MS Project for scheduling? and if it is possible to give me some idea how programmatically it works?

Answer 1

I don't think the Gantt Chart is a .NET control - MS Project is a C/C++ application and this is probably custom written.

As such, you will not be able to use that specific one. There are many third party .NET Gantt Chart controls.

Answer 2

User interfaces of the sophistication of MS Project are never programmed with a single control and as Oded already pointed out, it's likely to be a custom C++ API used.

There is a lot of information on Project in MSDN, for example the 2007 Object Model.

It is possible, depending on your actual needs, that you could embed a COM object to invoke Project. Sorry, I don't know exactly how to do that but if you research the topic, please add your results to the question :-)

As a matter of interest, Expression Blend is the first major application developed by Microsoft that was developed in a programming framework that they were releasing to third party developers. (Excluding the bottom-level Win32 API). In particular, it's the first time such a big application has been developed concurrently with the framework and the team able to feed their experiences back to the framework team. WPF's inherent patterns were significantly improved as a result.