Managing Estimated and Milestone Tasks

In Microsoft Project, milestones are used to monitor a project’s progress. Milestones are crucial points in the project. Typically, a milestone’s a task with no duration but any task can be marked as a milestone. Aspose.Tasks helps you manage milestones.

Working with Milestones

The Task class exposes the IsEstimated and IsMilestone properties to manage estimated and milestone tasks:

• IsEstimated: set and get whether a task is estimated (boolean).
• IsMilestone: set and get whether a task is a milestone (boolean).

Viewing Estimated and Milestone Tasks in Microsoft Project

To check whether a task is estimates of marked as a milestone in Microsoft Project one need to double-click on a task in the Task Entry form:

Finding out Whether a Task is Estimated or a Milestone

The following code examples show how to find out whether a task is estimated or a milestone using Aspose.Tasks.

Project project = new Project("New Project.mpp");

// Create a ChildTasksCollector instance
ChildTasksCollector collector = new ChildTasksCollector();

// Collect all the tasks from RootTask using TaskUtils
TaskUtils.Apply(project.RootTask, collector, 0);

// Parse through all the collected tasks
foreach (Task task in collector.Tasks)
{
    string strEst = (task.Get(Tsk.IsEstimated)) ? "Estimated" : "Non-Estimated";
    string strMileStone = (task.Get(Tsk.IsMilestone)) ? "Milestone" : "Non-Milestone";
    Console.WriteLine(task.Get(Tsk.Name) + " : " + strEst);
    Console.WriteLine(task.Get(Tsk.Name) + " : " + strMileStone);
}