Resources to learn how to develop a schedule/appointment system in C#? [closed]

Question

Not a job/task schedule, but actual appointment system people can use to create recurring events (like a calendar). It should support many recurrence patterns such as 1st Monday of each month, every Tues/Thurs, a specific date, etc.

I've been trying to review RFC 2445, but I'm finding it difficult to absorb, there's A LOT of content in it. I've looked through the sysschedules table from SQL Server, but it is more along the lines of a job schedule (which I'm sure shares some many similarities, but is still melting my brain at this point).

I'll be attempting to build one using ASP.NET MVC, C#, on SQL Server 2008R2. The table schema, how to query for specified dates, etc... still elude me at this time.

Are there resources out there (website, eBook, printed book, etc...) to help programmers learn how to program a schedule/calendar system (free or paid, I don't mind).

Answer 1

In my opinion for the task you about to do.

It important to think how different your system will be from the ones that have been build beforeI would recommend looking at some of the open source application some are do great job.

Here are some thinks that you may find useful

• http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/148500/Event-Calendar-for-an-ASP-NET-MVC-Application

• http://quartznet.sourceforge.net/index.html

• http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/14107/Using-DayPilot-2-Outlook-like-calendar-scheduling