Please help a newbie with a scheduler

I am writing an application for a client. They need a way to schedule events for multiple objects. For example, a hair salon has multiple hair dressers. They need to allocate time to cut a clients hair. It needs to list the hair dressers down the left side of a grid with the times of the day accross the top. Basically it's a day planner for multiple people with the day displayed horizontally instead of the typical vertical view of a day planner.

Are there any components in VB I could use, or any third party components? Any recommendations for books that have any examples dealiong with planners would be great too.

I'm thinking it will be a datagrid but I'm having a real hard time figuring out what to do. For example, if I have a table that links the clients to the hair dressers with a start and end time for the appt, how do I display the grid with the times that are not scheduled?

I know this is probably a real simple question, but I am out of my element in VB (particularly in VB.NET).

Thanks in advance for any help.

Feeling lame and frustrated,
Chad:confused:

hi,

i've thought about this problem before and am yet to come up with an easy solution. One thing i did think of doing was using the Microsoft Project 98 objects to see if you could do something groovy with gantt charts.

I haven't actually played with this yet though so don't know if it would work.

Nick