Aspose.Tasks for C++ 19.9 Release Notes

Aspose.Tasks for C++ has been launched. It allows you to read and write Microsoft Project MPP/XML files without using Microsoft Project software.

API Features

Aspose.Tasks for C++ offers a wide arrange of features for creating, reading, manipulating and saving project files:

• Read, change and write Microsoft Project documents
• Read MPP projects (native Microsoft Project format) and XML project formats. Microsoft Project 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 MPP formats are supported
• Create, update and write projects in XML project format
• Read MPP project files, update their summary information and write them in original MPP format
• Read MPP project files and convert them to XML format using Aspose.Tasks for C++ (the XML can be manipulated by implementing a custom XML parser)
• Change main project settings like schedule type, start and finish dates
• Change default project settings like default standard rate, default overtime rate, default task type, default fixed cost accrual, etc.
• Manage extended attributes
• Define weekdays for the project
• Define weekdays for calendars and calendar exceptions
• Read and write calendars for tasks and resources
• Manage task baseline scheduling and duration
• Handle constraints on tasks
• Create and manage links between tasks
• Read, change and create tasks, milestone, estimated critical or effort driven tasks
• Manage resources costs and variances
• Access assignment costs and budget
• Support for the encoding of MPX files
• Resource prefix implementation for nested resources
• Support of setting CSS prefix for HTML export
• Set custom date format while exporting to PDF format

Supported Microsoft Project Versions

• 2003
• 2007
• 2010
• 2013
• 2016
• 2019

Limitations and API Differences

Aspose.Tasks for C++ is based on the .NET version of the API and provides strictly the same functionality as Aspose.Tasks for .NET provides, excluding the following:

• Aspose.Tasks for C++ does not support printing of any kind.
• Aspose.Tasks for C++ does not support Project Online (PWA)
• Aspose.Tasks for C++ does not support database I/O access of any kind.
• Aspose.Tasks for C++ does not support EMF/WMF format, neither itself nor as Project file inclusions. The library can not handle Project files that contain EMF/WMF inclusion correctly.