Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Schedule Control

21 Dec 20228 minutes to read

This section briefly explains about how to include ASP.NET Core Schedule control in your ASP.NET Core application using Visual Studio.

Prerequisites

System requirements for ASP.NET Core controls

Create ASP.NET Core web application with Razor pages

Install ASP.NET Core package in the application

Syncfusion ASP.NET Core controls are available in nuget.org. Refer to NuGet packages topic to learn more about installing NuGet packages in various OS environments. To add ASP.NET Core controls in the application, open the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio (Tools → NuGet Package Manager → Manage NuGet Packages for Solution), search for Syncfusion.EJ2.AspNet.Core and then install it.

NOTE

The Syncfusion.EJ2.AspNet.Core NuGet package has dependencies, Newtonsoft.Json for JSON serialization and Syncfusion.Licensing for validating Syncfusion license key.

Add Syncfusion ASP.NET Core Tag Helper

Open ~/Views/_ViewImports.cshtml file and import the Syncfusion.EJ2 TagHelper.

@addTagHelper *, Syncfusion.EJ2

Add style sheet

Checkout the Themes topic to learn different ways (CDN, NPM package, and CRG) to refer styles in ASP.NET Core application, and to have the expected appearance for Syncfusion ASP.NET Core controls. Here, the theme is referred using CDN inside the <head> of ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml file as follows,

<head>
    ...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET Core controls styles -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/fluent.css" />
</head>

Add script reference

In this getting started walk-through, the required scripts are referred using CDN inside the <head> of ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml file as follows,

<head>
    ...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET Core controls scripts -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js"></script>
</head>

Register Syncfusion Script Manager

Open ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml page and register the script manager at the end of `<body>` in the ASP.NET Core application as follows.

<body>
    ....
    ....
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET Core Script Manager -->
    <ejs-scripts></ejs-scripts>
</body>

Add ASP.NET Core Schedule control

Now, add the Syncfusion ASP.NET Core Schedule tag helper in ~/Pages/Index.cshtml page.

<ejs-schedule id="schedule"></ejs-schedule>

Press Ctrl+F5 (Windows) or ⌘+F5 (macOS) to run the app. Then, the Syncfusion ASP.NET Core Schedule control will be rendered in the default web browser.

ASP.NET Core Schedule Control

Populating appointments

To populate an empty Scheduler with appointments, bind the event data to it by assigning the dataSource property under e-schedule-eventsettings tag Helper.

@{
    .....
    List<AppointmentData> appData = new List<AppointmentData>();
    appData.Add(new AppointmentData
    { Id = 1, Subject = "Explosion of Betelgeuse Star", StartTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 11, 9, 30, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 11, 11, 0, 0) });
    appData.Add(new AppointmentData
    { Id = 2, Subject = "Thule Air Crash Report", StartTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 12, 12, 0, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 12, 14, 0, 0) });
    appData.Add(new AppointmentData
    { Id = 3, Subject = "Blue Moon Eclipse", StartTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 13, 9, 30, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 13, 11, 0, 0) });
    appData.Add(new AppointmentData
    { Id = 4, Subject = "Meteor Showers in 2022", StartTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 14, 13, 0, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 14, 14, 30, 0) });
    appData.Add(new AppointmentData
    { Id = 5, Subject = "Milky Way as Melting pot", StartTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 15, 12, 0, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 15, 14, 0, 0) });
}

<ejs-schedule id="schedule" height="550" selectedDate="new DateTime(2022, 2, 15)">
    <e-schedule-eventsettings dataSource="appData"></e-schedule-eventsettings>
</ejs-schedule>
public class AppointmentData
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Subject { get; set; }
    public DateTime StartTime { get; set; }
    public DateTime EndTime { get; set; }
}

ASP.NET Core Schedule with Appointments

Setting date

Scheduler usually displays the system date as its current date. To change the current date of scheduler with specific date, define the selectedDate property.

@{
    .....
    List<AppointmentData> appData = new List<AppointmentData>();
    appData.Add(new AppointmentData
    { Id = 1, Subject = "Explosion of Betelgeuse Star", StartTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 11, 9, 30, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 11, 11, 0, 0) });
    appData.Add(new AppointmentData
    { Id = 2, Subject = "Thule Air Crash Report", StartTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 12, 12, 0, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 12, 14, 0, 0) });
    appData.Add(new AppointmentData
    { Id = 3, Subject = "Blue Moon Eclipse", StartTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 13, 9, 30, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 13, 11, 0, 0) });
    appData.Add(new AppointmentData
    { Id = 4, Subject = "Meteor Showers in 2022", StartTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 14, 13, 0, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 14, 14, 30, 0) });
    appData.Add(new AppointmentData
    { Id = 5, Subject = "Milky Way as Melting pot", StartTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 15, 12, 0, 0), EndTime = new DateTime(2022, 2, 15, 14, 0, 0) });
}

<ejs-schedule id="schedule" height="550" selectedDate="new DateTime(2022, 2, 15)">
    <e-schedule-eventsettings dataSource="appData"></e-schedule-eventsettings>
</ejs-schedule>
public class AppointmentData
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Subject { get; set; }
    public DateTime StartTime { get; set; }
    public DateTime EndTime { get; set; }
}

Specific view

Scheduler displays week view by default. To change the current view, define the applicable view name to the currentView property. The applicable view names are,

  • Day
  • Week
  • WorkWeek
  • Month
  • Year
  • Agenda
  • MonthAgenda
  • TimelineDay
  • TimelineWeek
  • TimelineWorkWeek
  • TimelineMonth
  • TimelineYear
@using Syncfusion.EJ2.Schedule
@{
    .....
     List<ScheduleView> viewOption = new List<ScheduleView>()
    {
        new ScheduleView { Option = Syncfusion.EJ2.Schedule.View.Week },
        new ScheduleView { Option = Syncfusion.EJ2.Schedule.View.TimelineDay }
    };
}

<ejs-schedule id="schedule" height="550" views="viewOption" selectedDate="new DateTime(2022, 2, 15)">
</ejs-schedule>

ASP.NET Core Schedule with Specific View

Individual view customization

Each individual scheduler views can be customized with its own options such as setting different start and end hour on Week and Work Week views, whereas hiding the weekend days on Month view alone. This can be achieved by defining views property to accept the array of object type, where each object depicts the individual view customization.

@using Syncfusion.EJ2.Schedule
@{
    .....
    List<ScheduleView> viewOption = new List<ScheduleView>()
    {
        new ScheduleView { Option = Syncfusion.EJ2.Schedule.View.Week, DateFormat = "dd-MMM-yyyy" },
        new ScheduleView { Option = Syncfusion.EJ2.Schedule.View.Month, ShowWeekend = false, Readonly = true }
    };
}

<ejs-schedule id="schedule" height="550" views="viewOption" selectedDate="new DateTime(2022, 2, 15)">
</ejs-schedule>

ASP.NET Core Schedule with Custom Views

NOTE

You can also explore our ASP.NET Core Scheduler example that shows how to use the toolbar buttons to play with Scheduler functionalities.

NOTE

View Sample in GitHub.

See also