Hi Friends;
I don't wish to convince anybody about CodeJock. I only want to share information for everyone's benefit. It is true that the calendar control is huge and extremely configurable. Yes, you can use outlook data, or any other source of data as well as a combination of data sources including google calendar. By any source, I mean, xml, dbf, mdb, sql, mysql, ads, outlook, arrays, objects, memory, oracle, flat files, ....
The control is well worth its cost and they are always running special deals where you can get the control for about $100. It is totally the outlook look and feel. I always avoided writing a calendar for my customers and instead always told them to use outlook. But the fact of the matter is that outlook could not tell them if the patient with an appointment got serviced or not. Outlook does not pickup insurance information and will not integrate with my other tables.
As complete and configurable as the control is, you don't have to implement every single feature. Tim got the calendar up an running in two days, yes there were some kinks, but still -he only started working with the calendar last Friday and I already saw a screen shot of his app -it blew me away.
These screen shots are from my calendar app developed in a little over a week and it is already installed as a beta at a customer site:
Here I'm selecting more than one day:
Here I'm displaying a custom form to enter specific data:
Again, I'm only sharing what I trust to be valuable information and I hope it helps some.
regards,
Reinaldo.