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I'm currently evaluating different asp.net components for the main UI in a “Daily Employee Scheduler” app I'll be making. The tool will be rolled out at a few different locations, which makes it being a web app more attractive over winforms, however the datagridview component in winforms would be able to do almost all of what I want, so I don't want to rule it out completely if this proves to be too difficult to get going in asp.net.

The app will generate a schedule that consists of which area the employee will be working for a given day (time ranges etc don't matter). After the schedule has been generated we want the user to be able to modify it by being able to drag and drop a work area between two employees and have their value swap, or click to modify on an assigned area for an employee to easily change it. If we think of this as a grid, employee names would be the row header, the date would be the column header and the work area would be the cell value.

I’ve been looking at 3rd party .net components to help build this with, but so far haven’t found anything that does everything we need. Just wondering if anyone has some suggestions on something that would work to implement this?

Thanks!

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take a look at trello.com. that looks like exactlywhat you need. And its free! – Morons Dec 7 '11 at 1:37
Cool platform! Looking for something we can have a bit more control over though, the schedule will be loaded into our database and visualized with whatever component we end up going with. – Travis Dec 7 '11 at 20:41
The guys from clientui.com have some really nice controls for scheduling-apps. – Claudiu Constantin Mar 20 '12 at 18:25

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Try Trello. It's free, and it sounds like it was made for your situation.

From the Trello website:

All your projects, all your tasks, all of your team--organized, accounted for, and easily visible at a glance. New users instantly understand the list and card metaphor, and can be working on Trello within minutes.

Oh, and did I mention that it was made by Fog Creek? Just saying.

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If anyone is curious, in the end we ended up going with the scheduler from DayPilot (http://www.daypilot.org/) and using Ext.NET for the rest of the UI (http://www.ext.net/).

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