DayPilot » Knowledge Base » How to save the exported PNG image to a file (without a web page)

The Scheduler image export can be used outside of ASP.NET web pages.

You need to create the control and set all the necessary properties in the code.

Example

This is a minimal example that saves the image to a file (default colors and fonts):

        DayPilotScheduler s = new DayPilotScheduler();
        s.DataStartField = "start";
        s.DataEndField = "end";
        s.DataResourceField = "resource";
        s.DataTextField = "name";
        s.DataValueField = "id";
        s.DataSource = getBackgroundData();
        s.Resources.Add("Resource A", "A");
        s.StartDate = DateTime.Today;
        s.Days = 1;
        s.DataBind();
        MemoryStream ms = s.Export(ImageFormat.Png);

        using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("c:/var/log/aspnet/output.png", FileMode.CreateNew))
        {
            ms.WriteTo(fs);
        }

        ms.Close();

Testing data generator:

    private DataTable getBackgroundData()
    {
        DataTable dt;
        dt = new DataTable();
        dt.Columns.Add("start", typeof(DateTime));
        dt.Columns.Add("end", typeof(DateTime));
        dt.Columns.Add("name", typeof(string));
        dt.Columns.Add("id", typeof(string));
        dt.Columns.Add("resource", typeof(string));

        DataRow dr;

        dr = dt.NewRow();
        dr["id"] = 1;
        dr["start"] = Convert.ToDateTime("15:00");
        dr["end"] = Convert.ToDateTime("16:00").AddDays(2);
        dr["name"] = "First";
        dr["resource"] = "A";
        dt.Rows.Add(dr);

        return dt;
    }