Ok thanks for the heads up. 

Sounds like something I should not mess with then The only reason i was looking at trying as that I am making a reservation system and the bookings that span the entire day view width, just seem to me like they are more important than the ones that are shared width.  It is purely cosmetic, so not to worry

Cheers

If you are looking for a way to visually highlight a particular Appointment, you should know that the Appointment object exposes an Appearance property. You could set (for example) the Appointment.Appearance.BackColor property to some arbitrary color for Appointments that you want to stand out from others. I'm not sure, however, that I understand why an appointment that spans the width of the control (which by definition means that it does not intersect with any others) should be considered "more important" in the context of booking reservations. If you want to expand on that point we can try to help.

 Sorry for the confusion

Pretty much i am making a reservation system for a restaurant

When somone books a table, it adds the appointment
the only thing i was meaning was a timeslot where there is 5 reservations will have them split to share the width
which is fine, working perfectly, and then under that there is one 1 reservation, but its appointment spans the entire width

i was was just saying that i would like all reservations to be the same width, not depending on how many other bookings there are.

It is not a problem at all, i was just wondering if you could

Thanks again to everyone for your replys so far, I appreciate the help

Why not use multiple appointment owners... grouped by date

Make each table at your restuarant represent an Owner.

Then each table will have its own "column" and will be much more logical to look at. In most cases you will never overlap/double book a single table so you will not have the problem of different width appointment objects.

I assume you are familiar with the concept of multiple owners etc. If this approach is not suitable, I would be interested as to know why.

Regards
Aaron

Try using a combination of DayView.EnsureColumnInView

Or DayView.CalendarInfo.Owners.SwapOwners to re-order the rooms dynamically when you scroll left/right

 HI again

 I am powering on with your idea about having each table as an owner and also using "unassigned" for bookings that have yet to be assigned a table.  Looks like it will be the way to go, makes it easy to see what tables are booked etc

One thing that would be good is able to lock the assigned to display in the first column, even if i scroll to the right to see other tables.  IS this possible?

I would then be able to see all the tables by scrolling while also remaining to see the unassigned bookings.

Does this make sense? and is it possible?

I am looking through the help, but can not seem to see a property for that, mind you i did not see the other ones that you have pointed out for me.

 Cheers for the help

Using the DataRowView is good for adhoc queries IMHO... but I prefer to build a Nice custom class and store it in the Owner.Tag object on Initialization.

Eg:

Public Class TableInformation
     Public Property NumberOfSeats as Integer
     Public Property HasWaterViews as Boolean
     Public Property IsVIPTable as Boolean
     ...
     'I don't know what other fields you have
End Class

So on Owner Initialization create a new instance of this class and populate it from your database... then Owner.Tag = InstanceOfCustomClass

It will be nicer to work with in the future.

Cheers
Aaron

Hey Again Aaron,

Great idea. That sound like a great plan.

I will put that into place now and test it out, but i think it will be a good way to go.

I am defiantly saving off other relivent information about the reservation using  the method i learnt from you previously so query the relivant tables would be easy (Dim drv As DataRowView = DirectCast(e.Appointment.BindingListObject, DataRowView))

Again, thanks for the tips and help

 Well assuming you book 70 tables... it will look ALOT better than seeing 70 Appointments squeezed together on the one appointment owner side by side.

Set some properties such as "PreferredColumnWidth", "MinimumColumnWidth" and with the control automatically having the ability to scroll sideways (although this is not ideal) you will be able to see all of the tables quiet well.

What I suggest you do is to apply some filtering to the rooms/owners.

Perhaps by default, show all 70 rooms... but the first question you want to ask your "user" to enter when they are searching/filter for available tables is the "how many seats required".

If you stored the number of seats at each table in the Owner.Tag property then you could quickly filter it.

eg:

For Each own As Owner in CalendarInfo.Owners
     Dim seatnumbers As Integer = TryCast(own.Tag,Integer)
     If seatnumbers IsNot Nothing Then
          own.visible = seatnumbers = _UserInputAsInteger
     Else
          own.visible = true 'set your default behaviour if room/owner does not have seat number set
     End If
Next

Your users will be able to very quickly view only those tables which are relavant...potentially, 70 tables/owners could be cut down to 10 very quickly.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Aaron