A Data Structure to represent bookable timeslots

Question

What suggestions do people have for a timeslot data structure?

I have a number of activities and I'm planning to display them in a datagrid with days as columns and timeslots as rows. This suggests to me a timeslot data structure with 5 properties for the five days (the columns) for every value I want to use e.g. a timeslot ID and the number of slots left.

So...

• Property Day1ID
• Property Day1Slots
• Property Day2ID
• Property Day2Slots
• Property Day3ID
• Property Day4Slots
• etc

Then each TimeSlot structure would be for a specific time... say 9:00 and another for each hour after that. Then I'd have a list of timeslot structures that will auto bind against the datagrid.

I'm exporing new ground here and as you can see I'm not very clear on what/how to do it?

All suggestions welcome,

Thanks

Answer 1

I would not hard code the time slots and days. I would put them in a matrix. A matrix with e.g. 5 columns for the days and e.g. 24 rows for the timeslots.

Answer 2

Create a structure like this:

struct DayInfo
{
    int ID;
    int[] Slots;
}

and then have a List to store all your data, which can be easy binded to 2 nested repeaters.