The Exontrol's ExGantt component is our approach to create timeline charts (also known as Gantt charts). Gantt chart is a time-phased graphic display of activity durations. Activities are listed with other tabular information on the left side with time intervals over the bars. Activity durations are shown in the form of horizontal bars. The exGantt component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure. Skins are relatively easy to build and put on any part of the control

Compatible with the Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
WYSWYG Template/Layout Editor support
Skinnable Interface support ( ability to apply a skin to any background part )
Print and Print Preview support.
ADO and DAO support
Ability to save/load the control's data to/from XML documents
EMF Format support ( Ability to save the control's content to Enhanced Metafile (EMF) file, and so to any BMP, JPG, GIF or PNG formats )
Hierarchical view
Ability to specify multiple levels, using custom built-in HTML format for each level
Alternative HTML labels support for best fit in the level's time unit.
Ability to insert hyperlinks anywhere in the cells, bars or links
Semi-Transparent Bars support
Zoom and Scale support ( including at run-time too )
Nonworking Days, Nonworking Hours support
Ability to assign multiple bars to a single item
Predefined bars like task, milestone and so on
Ability to define your own type of bars using custom shapes and patterns
Ability to show the current date-time using EBN files.
Ability to define the starting and ending corners from icons.
Overview Layout/Map support.
Conditional Format support.
Computed Fields supports numbers, strings and dates expressions.
Ability to format the cells based on several predefined functions and expressions such as currency, shortdate, longdate ...
Multiple Locked/Fixed Columns support
FilterBar, SortBar Support
Locked/Fixed/Dividers items support
ActiveX hosting (you can place any ActiveX component in any item of the chart)
Multi-lines items support
'starts with' and 'contains' incremental searching support
Merge or Split cells support
Built-In HTML Tooltip support
and much more