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Adding xamGantt to a Page

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic describes how to add the xamGantt™ control to a page.

In this topic

This topic contains the following sections:

Adding xamGantt to a Page

Introduction

The procedure explains how you can add the xamGantt control to a page and which required references you should include in your project.

Preview

The following screenshot previews the result.

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Prerequisites

To complete the procedure, you need the following:

  • A project with the following required NuGet package reference:

    • Infragistics.WPF.Gantt

    For more information on setting up the NuGet feed and adding NuGet packages, you can take a look at the following documentation: NuGet Feeds.

  • A project with the ProjectDataHelper class containing sample project data.

Overview

Following is a conceptual overview of the process:

  1. Add the required namespaces

  2. Create a ViewModel class

  3. Add xamGantt control to the page

Steps

The following steps demonstrate how to add xamGantt control to a page and bind it to sample project data.

  1. Add the required namespaces

    Add the following namespaces:

    In XAML:

    xmlns:ig="http://schemas.infragistics.com/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:[Your ViewModel Namespace]"

  1. Create a ViewModel class

    Create a ViewModel class that exposes a public property Project of type Project. This class inherits ObservableModel class that implements the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. The project sample data is loaded in the class constructor.

    See the Code Example: ProjectViewModel class for more details.

  1. Add xamGantt control to the page

    Add the xamGantt control in the page Grid container and bind it to the project data provided by the ProjectViewModel:

    In XAML:

    <Grid>
  <Grid.Resources>
  <!--Create a static Grid resource of type ProjectViewModel-->
    <local:ProjectViewModel x:Key="viewmodel" />
  </Grid.Resources>
  <Grid.DataContext>
  <!--Bind the Grid DataContext
      to the created data resource -->
    <Binding Source="{StaticResource viewmodel}" />
  </Grid.DataContext>
  <!— Add a xamGantt and bind it to the data -->
    <ig:XamGantt x:Name="gantt"
                 Project="{Binding Project}"/>
</Grid>

Code Example: ProjectViewModel class

Description

The ProjectViewModel class exposes a public property Project of type Project. This property is initialized and populated with sample project data in the constructor of the ViewModel class.

Code

In C#:

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using Infragistics.Controls.Schedules;
public class ProjectViewModel : ObservableModel
{
    public ProjectViewModel()
    {
        this._project = ProjectDataHelper.GenerateProjectData();
    }
    private Project _project;
    public Project Project
    {
        get
        {
            return this._project;
        }
        set
        {
            if (this._project != value)
            {
                this._project = value;
                this.NotifyPropertyChanged("Project");
            }
        }
    }
}
public class ObservableModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
    protected void NotifyPropertyChanged(String info)
    {
        if (PropertyChanged != null)
        {
            PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(info));
        }
    }
}

In Visual Basic:

Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports Infragistics.Controls.Schedules
Public Class ProjectViewModel
    Inherits ObservableModel
    Public Sub New()
        Me._project = ProjectDataHelper.GenerateProjectData()
    End Sub
    Private _project As Project
    Public Property Project() As Project
        Get
            Return Me._project
        End Get
        Set(value As Project)
            Me._project = value
            Me.NotifyPropertyChanged("Project")
        End Set
    End Property
End Class
Public Class ObservableModel
    Implements INotifyPropertyChanged
    Public Event PropertyChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As PropertyChangedEventArgs) Implements INotifyPropertyChanged.PropertyChanged
    Protected Overridable Sub NotifyPropertyChanged(ByVal propertyName As String)
        RaiseEvent PropertyChanged(Me, New PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName))
    End Sub
End Class

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Topic Purpose

This topic describes basic conceptual information about xamGantt, project, tasks and other xamGantt elements.

This group of topics describes the xamGantt control in details.

The topics in this group explain data binding using the xamGantt control.

The topics in this group explain the main configurable aspects of the xamGantt control.