Getting the Appointment Id from the DevExpress Scheduler

I recently had a problem with the DevExpress scheduler where I needed to get the appointment Id to manipulate my application's own business objects. For some reason the guys at DevExpress have the Id as a private member variable which should make this impossible.

However with the reflection capabilities of .net nothing can be really hidden, so I ended up writing some pretty horrible code to get the Id but I think it was the only way to solve my problem: 

Appointment apt = Control.SelectedAppointments[0];
FieldInfo fld = typeof(Appointment).GetField("id", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
int appointmentId = int.Parse(fld.GetValue(apt).ToString());

  
I put this in my custom appointment handler class:

  
public class CustomMenuAppointmentCallbackCommand : SchedulerCallbackCommand    {
        string menuItemId = String.Empty;
        public CustomMenuAppointmentCallbackCommand(ASPxScheduler control)
            : base(control)
        {
        }
 
        public override string Id { get { return "USRAPTMENU"; } }
 
        public string MenuItemId { get { return menuItemId; } }
 
        protected override void ParseParameters(string parameters)        {
            this.menuItemId = parameters;
        }
 
        protected override void ExecuteCore()
        {
            Appointment apt = Control.SelectedAppointments[0];
            FieldInfo fld = typeof(Appointment).GetField("id", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
            int appointmentId = int.Parse(fld.GetValue(apt).ToString());
            //more code using the appointment id
         }
}

  
That's it!