Aspose.Tasks 20.7.0

.NET API to Manipulate Project Files

Aspose.Tasks for .NET is a C# library that assists developers in generating, editing, rendering & conversion of 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 project calendar and weekdays.
• Task baseline scheduling and duration.
• Work with task constraints.
• Apply links among tasks.
• Create task milestone, 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).

Enhancements in Version 20.7

• Added an ability to specify the non-default path for Project Server's PWA URL.
• Fixed default columns for Task sheet in XLSX export.
• Fixed IsMilestone flag is not reset when the duration of a task is changed to non zero value and vice versa.

Bug fixes in Version 20.7

• Fixed InvalidCastException while converting of MPP to graphic formats.
• Fixed TasksWritingException while saving the project.
• Fixed incorrect milestone property after a task was changed.
• Fixed exception on loading of MPP file.
• Fixed reading of time-phased data in the case when assignment' start of finish is a non-working day.
• Fixed inability to set assignment's OutlineCode lookup values in a file saved by Aspose.Tasks.
• Fixed calculation of time-phased data and task duration in case of custom TDs.
• Fixed missing resource notes in project saved by Aspose.Tasks.
• Fixed incorrect written .XML when enterprise fields are present in a project.

For the detailed notes, please visit Aspose.Tasks for .NET 20.7 Release Notes.

Read & Write Project Formats

Microsoft Project: MPP, MPT, MPX, XML

Save Projects As

Primavera: P6 XML, PM XER Microsoft Office: XLSX Fixed Layout: PDF Images: JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, SVG Text: TXT Others: HTML

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.

Getting Started with Aspose.Tasks for .NET

Are you ready to give Aspose.Tasks for .NET a try? Simply execute Install-Package Aspose.Tasks from 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 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 Sub-task within it

Aspose.Tasks for .NET a lot of C# public classes to define and manage project tasks. Following code sample shows how to create a project file in C# and then create a task and a sub-task within that project:

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

// Add task, sub task and save 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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