Aspose.Tasks 22.12.0

Microsoft® Project Task Link Creation via .NET API

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Aspose.Tasks for .NET is a C# library that assists developers in generating, editing, rendering & converting the Project files without needing Microsoft Project®.

Aspose.Tasks for .NET on-premise API enables you to work with projects, formulas, calendars, calendar exceptions, tasks, task links, task baselines, project resources, resource assignments, currencies, handling exceptions, reporting services, and project risk analysis (Monte Carlo Simulation).

Project File Processing Features

• Set project schedule type, start date & finish date.
• Modify project standard rate, overtime rate, task type, fixed cost accrual, etc.
• Manage project extended attributes.
• Define the project calendar and weekdays.
• Task baseline scheduling and duration.
• Work with task constraints.
• Apply links among tasks.
• Create task milestones, estimated critical, or effort-driven tasks.
• Manage resource cost and variance.
• Assignment cost and budget.
• Encode MPX files.
• Comprehensive project reporting (15+ types of reports).

What's new in v22.12.0

Enhanced Creation of External Task Links

This API release offers enhancements to the link creation between cross-project tasks for MS Project®:

The following example demonstrates how to create a cross-project task link:

Project project = new Project();
var summary = project.RootTask.Children.Add("Summary Task");

Task t2 = t2 = summary.Children.Add("External Task");
t2.Set(Tsk.ExternalTaskProject, "ExternalProject.mpp");
t2.Set(Tsk.ExternalId, 1);
t2.Set(Tsk.ExternalUid, 2); // External task's Unique Id should be set.
t2.Set(Tsk.IsExternalTask, true);
t2.Set(Tsk.IsManual, new NullableBool(false));
t2.Set(Tsk.IsSummary, false);

Task t = summary.Children.Add("Task");
TaskLink link = project.TaskLinks.Add(t2, t);
link.IsCrossProject = true;
link.LinkType = TaskLinkType.FinishToStart;
link.CrossProjectName = "ExternalProject.mpp\\\\1"; // <- here external task's Id is used.

New LinkLagTimeSpan Property

A new property LinkLagTimeSpan property has been added to the TaskLink. This property gets or sets the lag duration, depending on the LagFormat.

Cost Calculations for Multiple Rates

Enhancements have been made in making cost calculations for the case where multiple rates are effective on a particular day.

For a complete list of features, enhancements, and bug fixes in this release please visit, Aspose.Tasks for .NET 22.12 Release Notes.

Read & Write Project Formats

Microsoft Project: MPP, MPT, XML
Primavera: MPX, P6XML, XER

Save Projects As

Microsoft Office: XLSX
Fixed Layout: PDF
Images: TIFF, SVG, PNG, JPEG
Web: HTML
Text: TXT

Platform Independence

You can use Aspose.Tasks for .NET to build any type of a 32-bit or 64-bit .NET application including ASP.NET, WCF, WinForms, WPF, etc. It is possible to use Aspose.Tasks for .NET via COM Interop from ASP, Perl, PHP, and Python. You can also use Aspose.Tasks for .NET to build applications with Mono.

Get Started

Are you ready to give Aspose.Tasks for .NET a try? Simply execute Install-Package Aspose.Tasks from the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio to fetch the NuGet package. If you already have Aspose.Tasks for .NET and want to upgrade the version, please execute Update-Package Aspose.Tasks to get the latest version.

Convert Microsoft Project MPP File to Primavera MPX Format

You can execute the below code snippet to see how Aspose.Tasks API performs against your own samples or check the GitHub Repository for other common usage scenarios.

Project project = new Project(dir + "template.mpp");

// Save project in desired format
project.Save(dir + "output.xml", SaveFileFormat.MPX);

Use C# to Create a Project file, a Task, and a Sub-task within it

// Create a project instance
Project project = new Project();

// Add task, sub-task and save the project
Task task = project.RootTask.Children.Add("Summary1");
Task subtask = task.Children.Add("Subtask1");
project.Save(dir + "output.xml", SaveFileFormat.XML);

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