So 5 Hours later I have my little test up at http://outlook.visualstudiotutorials.com keep in mind it has only been 5 hours so the site is basicly to get the general thought process down and is in no way optimized and probally only works in IE 7...
The only thing that is bound to the database right now is just the grid and that is only to pull some random data into the email list...
For those of you just tuning in... You can read the thread that spawned this healthy challenge here:http://forums.infragistics.com/forums/t/6321.aspx?PageIndex=1
DISCLAIMER: As I don't want to eat a humble pie although I am sure Cedric and Michael are finding the juiciest one they can :)The link above is just so I could whip something together "in a hurry" to give me a better vision of what I am going to do IT will change and become more of what the challenge is about, and while it currently "does" follow the rules it is not up to my standards as I am trying to type the code and watch Dr. Who, BattleStar at the same time :)
Ok so not really day 2 as I only worked few hours over the weekend but here is a little status update (FYI This demo will onlywork in IE7 until the challenge is finished then I will go back and fix the FF problems).
Updates:1: Added AJAX2: Added Progress Bar for loading Pages.3: Added Collaspable Navigation and To-Do Bar4: Added "Drop Down" search area (for inbox)5: Added Calendars (not hooked to database atm)6: *Added "New Message Notification" 7: Added LoadOnDemand (with caching) and PagingFixes:1: Off loaded the Body (text/html) of the email message to a seperate table to improve cache and indexing speed.2: Fixed New Message Notification display bug where it would not always show up at bottom right.3: Fixed Double Post back problem with AJAX4: Fixed bad cache / compression byte that would cause certain JS files not to be read correctly.
Thats pretty much all for this entry folks :)
*The New Message Notification was made using a Infragistics Panel and Simple Javascript.
Chris,
This is very cool. It looks like you have stopped working on it. can you share the source code? Also, I'm interested if you thought about adding an "AutoPreview" feature, I'm trying to figure out how to have a "second row" of text in a grid that spans columns and has formatting. any help would be appreciate it.
Thanks
Jeff
Not sure what you mean?
I am trying to get the completed version up online as the one everyone is looking at is not the finished version.
I didn't see the click feature on the month and weekly view that switch to day view. I actually need to do that in an app I am working on now.
Thanks for the fast response. I look forward to seeing the project when you get a chance to upload it.
@Jeff,Haven't stopped working on the IG challenges and the outlook one is finished just haven't uploaded changes etc. as I have been fixing up the new site which required building a CMS from scratch :) So in the process of putting all the challenges and downloads online etc. Just trying to finish some other stuff up on the site before getting back to the challenges.
The trick on the "second row" is to use the column span feature :) don't have the code etc. off the top of my head as I am building a winForms project right now but that is what you are going to want to do :)
I will go ahead and add that to the demo before I upload it to the server :) should be later this week.