Support of 64Bit Operating Systems
VARCHART XGantt now offers the editions .NET and ASP.NET that are designed in particular to run on the 64 bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 2003 and Windows XP. While 32 bit applications using 32 bit controls can run on 64 bit operation systems, the same option is not available to 64 bit applications; they must use 64 bit controls.

64 bit applications can only run on 64 bit operation systems. Since by now web applications mostly are run on 64 bit platforms where the Internet Information Service also runs as a 64 bit process, ASP.NET applications by obligation must run as 64 bit applications.

Time Intervals Highlighted in Gantt Chart Calendar
In a calendar, working times and nonworking times are defined by time intervals. VARCHART XGantt now allows to assign different design features to intervals which become visible when applied to a calendar grid in the Gantt graph of a diagram. Time intervals can thus be highlighted by colors, gradients, patterns or borders.

This way, holidays for example can still be recognized on weekends or vacation close-downs can be visualized by particular colors.

The calendar and its options can be used by individual groups. So at runtime, a different calendar can be assigned to each group.

Year Profile and Calendar Profile
Another enhancement is the year profile, which allows to define recurring days within a complete year. In addition, a variable profile was introduced, so there is no need any more to differ between shift calendars and usual calendars. For reasons of compatibility though, shift calendars remain available in their previous form. The options of a variable profile exceed the functions of a shift calendar. For example, it allows to define a two-week profile.

New Property Dialogs
The new enhancements and the addition of dynamic objects have resulted in adjustments of existing property dialogs and the introduction of new ones.

Dynamic Objects Added
More dynamic objects were added to the new version of the control, the properties of which cannot only be modified at design time, but can also be set at runtime by the API. The new objects are VcLinkAppearance, VcCalendar, VcCalenderProfile and VcInterval. Since dynamic objects can be generated or deleted at runtime, applications can be designed more versatile.

For the definition of calendars, interval objects are available that can be modified at both, design time and runtime, and that allow to identify individual intervals. Generating calendars by methods that define working and non-working times has become redundant.

The dynamic versatility of VARCHART XGantt allows to easily generate different scenarios of applications from descriptions stored to databases. In many cases, this new way of support spares specific static configuration files.