Load MS Project Template (MPT) Files & Enhance Gantt Chart Rendering

The release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 5.4.0 is out now. With this month’s release, Aspose.Tasks for .NET now supports loading Microsoft Project Template (MPT) files which enable users to create project from constructor using template as parameter. Now Project’s constructor can be used to create project from templates and read existing projects as well, avoiding usage of ProjectReader. In this month’s release, we have added enhancements to the Gantt chart rendering by providing the option to roll up Gantt bars that marks any summary task in the project by its visible subtasks. In addition, we have also provided the facility to avoid marking non-working time on Gantt chart. The rendering process has also been enhanced to allow printing/hiding of legends on each page. We have also added additional task constraints in this month’s release which include StartNoEarlierThan, FinishNoEarlierThan, MustStartOn, and MustFinishOn task constraints. Loading Microsoft. This month’s release also includes a number of bug fixes related to XML output, where unnecessary data was present as compared to the output by MSP, identifying external tasks, incorrect duration while rendering Gantt chart, and custom fields. Below is the complete list of new features and important bug fixes included in this release.

• Microsoft Project MPT templates support
• More options in Gantt Chart Image rendering
• Project Rendering option without Legends on Each page in new Rendering Technique
• Add support for different types of TaskConstraints
• Difference in percentage calculation (resource allocation and task completion) when date = 'NA' in constraint
• Some unexpected elements in XML output.
• Export to XML by Aspose.Tasks differs from export by MS Project - some extra data was added
• [CustomAttributes] enhanced reading some attributes from MPP
• [Gantt Chart Rendering] Duration field returns incorrect data is fixed
• [Custom Fields] Cost field ignores point '.' from decimal values is fixed
• External tasks cannot be identified by IsExternalTask property of Aspose.Tasks
• Custom fields of date type that uses lookup table does not returns date value
• Project Reading Exception while reading the MPP file
• Could not retrieve Enterprise Custom Fields information from 2010 MPP

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