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How to: Customize Appointment Tooltips (legacy)

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Note

You are viewing documentation for the legacy WPF Scheduler control. If you’re starting a new project, we strongly recommend that you use a new control declared in the DevExpress.Xpf.Scheduling namespace. If you decide to upgrade an existing project in order to switch to the updated scheduler control, see the Migration Guidelines document.

Tip

A complete sample project is available in the DevExpress Code Examples database at https://supportcenter.devexpress.com/ticket/details/e2999/how-to-customize-appointment-tooltips.

This example demonstrates how to use the AppointmentViewInfo.Subject, AppointmentViewInfo.Location, AppointmentViewInfo.Description, AppointmentViewInfo.CustomViewInfo, SchedulerViewBase.AppointmentToolTipContentTemplate properties and SchedulerControl.AppointmentViewInfoCustomizing event to define and apply a custom template for showing an appointment subject, location, description and resource images within appointment tooltips.

using System.IO;
using System.Data;
using System.Windows;
using System.Data.OleDb;
using DevExpress.Xpf.Core.Native;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using DevExpress.XtraScheduler;
using DevExpress.Xpf.Scheduler;
using DevExpress.Xpf.Scheduler.Drawing;

namespace WpfApplication1 {
public partial class MainWindow : Window {
    Dictionary<Resource, BitmapImage> resourceImages = new Dictionary<Resource, BitmapImage>();

    public MainWindow() {
        InitializeComponent();

        // ...

        DataTemplate template = (DataTemplate)this.FindResource("AppointmentTooltipContentTemplate");
        schedulerControl1.WorkWeekView.AppointmentToolTipContentTemplate = template;

    }

    private void schedulerControl1_AppointmentViewInfoCustomizing(object sender, 
                                                                AppointmentViewInfoCustomizingEventArgs e) {
    AppointmentViewInfo viewInfo = e.ViewInfo;
    Resource resource = schedulerControl1.Storage.Resources.GetResourceById(viewInfo.Appointment.ResourceId);
    if (resource == Resource.Empty || resource.Image == null)
        viewInfo.CustomViewInfo = null;
    else {
        if (!this.resourceImages.ContainsKey(resource))
        this.resourceImages[resource] = ImageHelper.CreateImageFromStream(ConvertImageToMemoryStream(resource.Image));

        viewInfo.CustomViewInfo = this.resourceImages[resource];
    }
    }

    public static MemoryStream ConvertImageToMemoryStream(System.Drawing.Image img) {
        var ms = new MemoryStream();
        img.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
        return ms;
    }

}
}

The image below illustrates a custom tooltip shown for an appointment after applying a template.

DXScheduler_CustomAppointmentTooltips