In this blog post, we demonstrate how to create and add repeating appointments to the VIBlend Silverlight Scheduler.

To create a repeating appointment in VIBlend Silverlight Scheduler, you can follow these steps:

• Double-Click on any scheduler cell or right-click to open the built-in context menu and click ‘New Appointment’.
• In the pop-up window that appears, click the Repeat... checkbox.
• Choose your desired settings in the Recurrence Dialog and click ‘Ok’.
• Fill in the appointment's other details.
• Click Save and Close to confirm the changes.
  

To make an existing appointment repeat, follow these steps:

• Double-Click on the appointment and in the pop-up window that appears, click the Repeat... checkbox.
• Choose your desired settings in the Recurrence Dialog and click ‘Ok’.
• Fill in the appointment’s other details.
• Click Save and Close to confirm the changes.
  

To create a repeating appointment in the code-behind, follow these steps:

• Create a new Appointment object. Set the appointment’s start, duration, subject, description and location fields.
  

C#

DateTime appointmentStart = DateTime.Now.Date;
TimeSpan appointmentDuration = new TimeSpan(1, 0, 0);
Appointment lunchBreak = new Appointment(appointmentStart, appointmentDuration, "Lunch Break", "Steamed fillet of trout, served with sour-cream sauce, cucumber salad and boiled potatoes", "Lunch Room 1");

VB .NET

Dim appointmentStart As DateTime = DateTime.Now.Date
Dim appointmentDuration As New TimeSpan(1, 0, 0)
Dim lunchBreak As New Appointment(appointmentStart, appointmentDuration, "Lunch Break", "Steamed fillet of trout, served with sour-cream sauce, cucumber salad and boiled potatoes", "Lunch Room 1")

• Set the Appointment’s RecurrencePattern property to make it repeat. You can set this property to any class derived from the RecurrencePattern class. VIBlend Scheduler control provides four built-in recurrence patterns represented by the DayRecurrencePattern, MonthRecurrencePattern, YearRecurrencePattern and WeekRecurrencePattern classes. The following code snippet demonstrates how to specify a daily repeating behavior:
  

C#

lunchBreak.RecurrencePattern = new DayRecurrencePattern(lunchBreak.From, this.viblendScheduler.View.To, 1);

VB .NET

lunchBreak.RecurrencePattern = New DayRecurrencePattern(lunchBreak.From, Me.viblendScheduler.View.To, 1)

          In the daily recurrence pattern, you need to specify the RepeatIndex property which determines the days between two occurences. The default property value is 1.

• Finally, add the appointment to the Scheduler.

C#

this.viblendScheduler.Appointments.Add(lunchBreak);

VB .NET

Me.viblendScheduler.Appointments.Add(lunchBreak)