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MS Project Gantt chart control usage in C#

Hi, Has anybody used the MS Project Gantt chart control in C#? If yes, can you share some resources regarding this? Many thanks, Dragos ...

Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Project?

What is a good open-source alternative to Microsoft Project? Mac OS-X or Linux binaries available would be a huge plus. ...

VBA array sort function?

I'm looking for a decent sort implementation for arrays in VBA. A Quicksort would be preferred. Or any other sort algorithm other than bubble or merge would suffice. Please note that this is to work with MS Project 2003, so should avoid any of the Excel native functions and anything .net related. ...

Programmatically access a Microsoft Project (MPP) file from C#

What are my options for programmatically accessing a Microsoft Project file? What are the pros and cons of each approach? I will basically need to import all data from the file into another data structure. Using the Office Interop assembies is low on the preference scale. ...

Embedding my .NET control in MS Project 2003

I need to extend MS Project's functionality for my company, so I would like to embed some .NET GUI controls into Project. The plan is that my controls save the user input into my custom DB tables, but I do have to bind them to tasks, current user, resources etc. Could you give me some advise how to start? I am interested in: Sample app...

Microsoft Project

Is Microsoft Project the best tool for managing software development or IT projects or is there an alternative that is better? ...

Alternatives to MS project server

I manage a small group and I'd keep my work breakdown in project. However, it's difficult to provide my team with an adequate view into the project and ability to report on their progress. I looked at MS Project Server (the sharepoint webpart) but it's an expensive proposition. Has anyone had any experience with any other tool (commer...

Developing add-ons/extensions for MS Project

I would like to write a quick UI addon for MS Project, but I don't know how to proceed. Ideally it should be fully integrated into Project. Just need to know how to get started. Thanks! ...

How to force tasks in Microsoft Project to be "scheduled" based on priority and resource assignment?

I needed to do some higher-level project planning that doesn't really fit into the workflow of our day-to-day task management tools (FogBugz and whiteboards), so I figured I'd give MS Project a whirl (it being free through MSDN). I've hit a pretty solid wall, though. What I have is about 120 tasks, a set of people (referring to them as...

Does MS Project 2007 require SharePoint & How useful is MS Project to your development team?

Lets try this one more time. I'm posting this to get 2 questions answered Does MS Project 2007 require SharePoint (I am hoping no)? Do you like MS Project for your development team - is it useful or a pain? ...

How can I read mpp file using ACCESS VBA

Is there a way to read a MS Project (mpp file) from ACCESS VBA?? ...

MS Project Add-In Programming in .Net

We are building an Add-in for MS project and relatively new to the Office SDK programming. Any tips, guidelines, links for MS Project Add-In programming would be really helpful. ...

A better Project Manager tool than MS Project?

I regularly use MS project on 6-12 month duration programming projects with several hundred steps and half a dozen engineers. Its ...ok... in that I can define lots of project steps, dependencies, task size estimates and resource assignments. Ignoring that any project plan is actually a bad model of the real truth, MS project fails m...

Forcing related development tasks to stay together in Microsoft Project when Resource Leveling

When planning a software project, I wish to force Microsoft Project to keep several tasks that are dependent on each other and assigned to the same resource together, without other tasks interleaved by resource leveling. For example, I have the tasks - Design CDataAccess Implement CDataAccess Optimize CDataAccess I want them to foll...

How do I export a Gantt Chart from MS Project to MS Word using VBA

Using MS Project 2003 i want to export the "View | Gantt Chart" to MS Word (2000) using VBA. How can I achieve this? ...

Architecture question regarding exporting to MS Project

I have a small asp.net web application that allows you to create Projects and Tasks and apply estimates, work, etc to them. I am writing an export feature to allow you to download them as an MS Project file. It's really just an XML file. I will be writing an import feature afterwards, which allows you to reschedule Task start and stop d...

VB6.0 Create and Format Microsoft Project File

Hi, I’m struggling to write what I want to do as I’m not at all familiar with Microsoft Project so I hope someone can grasp what I’m after, lol! I am creating tasks from code and settings the predecessors; however I also need to "indent" (Alt+Shift+Right) rows so that there sub grouped (subtask) to the row/task above. Any help much w...

Need to make changes to MS Project 2003 files (MPP) from .Net - what are my options?

I have the need to make changes to MS Project files from a .Net program. My company has Apose.Task but I've just realized today that it apparently only allows for reading MPP files, writing is supported for XML only. Can anyone say I'm wrong about Apose?!!! Is there other products or open source alternatives? Can we use COM to do this...

is there a ruby interface to ms project server?

is there a way to connect to ms project server using ruby? we are using MS project server 2007 ...

Microsoft.Office.Interop.MSProject - why are my files always locked (by me!) when I try to open them?

Hi all, I'm trying to use Interop to manipulate MS Project 2003 (MPP) files. My problem is that MS Project reports that the files is already opened by another user (me!) and that I can open it only as read-only. Obviously, I've tried to restart studio, then windows (xp) but with no effect. The file attribute for Readonly is cleared on...