# Task Start and Finish

## Content



GanttView facilitates you to schedule your project from finish date or start date as per your convenience. To do so, you can use the **ScheduleFrom** property of the **Project** class. After scheduling your project, you can specify the start date and finish date of your task by using the **Start** and **Finish** properties of the **Task** class.

![An image that displays how you can the start and finish date of your task in the GanttView.](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/7e40233e-00f6-4cd8-af13-0764ef4e9235/images/startfinishdate.png)

To set the start/finish date at design time, follow the given steps:

1.  Open the **C1GanttView.Tasks Collection** Editor.
2.  Click the dropdown arrow next to the **Start/Finish** property. A dropdown calendar appears.
3.  Select the date from the dropdown calendar and set the time format in the increment button.

To set start and finish date programmatically, refer to the code given below:

```csharp
//Define start date of Task1
Task1.Start = new DateTime(2015, 06, 5);
```