KetticScheduler Import Appointments from ICalendar in C#.NET

KetticScheduler control for Windows Forms allows the developers to add the scheduler functionality to their .NET Windows application. This control contains a variety of features, such as multiple view options, strong data binding support, out of box appointment dialogs, as well as iCalendar support. The iCalendar support helps the scheduler interface designers to import Scheduler Appointments from the ICalendar format. In the following C# tutorial, we are going to demonstrate how to achieve this.

To import the Scheduler Appointments from the ICalendar format, the KetticScheduler C# class contains an Import method for the developers to achieve this. The Import method is able to help you easily import the appointments from a specific SchedulerICalendarImporter instance and a string. The following C# code snippet shows the implementation of Import method.

string importString = "ICalendar string format";
this.ketticScheduler1.Import(importString, new SchedulerICalendarImporter());

After importing the Scheduler Appointments from the given SchedulerICalendarImporter instance, we can use an override of the Import method to read appointment data from a stream. The simple C# code below demonstrates how to read the scheduler appointments.

using (FileStream stream = File.OpenRead("schedule.ics"))
{
    this.ketticScheduler1.Import(stream, new SchedulerICalendarImporter());
}