Managing Task Costs

To estimate the cost of a project, tasks are associated with costs. Aspose.Tasks for .NET supports this feature of Microsoft Project with a range of properties.

Working with Task Cost

The Tsk exposes a number of properties for working with task cost:

• Cost: a task’s projected or scheduled cost (double).
• BCWP: the budgeted cost of the work performed to date (double).
• BCWS: the budgeted cost of scheduled work (double).
• FixedCost: the fixed cost associated with a task (single).
• FixedCostAccrual: the fixed cost accrued for a task (CostAccrualType).

Viewing Task Costs in Microsoft Project

To view task costs in Microsoft Project:

1. On the Task Entry form, go to the Insert menu and select Columns.
2. Add the cost columns.

Getting Task Costs

The following examples show how to get a task’s cost using Aspose.Tasks.

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

// Add task and set cost
Task task = project.RootTask.Children.Add("Task");
task.Set(Tsk.Cost, 800);

// Display cost related properties of task
Console.WriteLine(task.Get(Tsk.RemainingCost));
Console.WriteLine(task.Get(Tsk.FixedCost));
Console.WriteLine(task.Get(Tsk.CostVariance));
Console.WriteLine(project.RootTask.Get(Tsk.Cost));
Console.WriteLine(project.RootTask.Get(Tsk.FixedCost));
Console.WriteLine(project.RootTask.Get(Tsk.RemainingCost));
Console.WriteLine(project.RootTask.Get(Tsk.CostVariance));