A Calendar Control/Component by Richer Components

RichDatePicker™ is the ASP.NET component of choice for pop-up calendar style date selection on a web page. For the end user RichDatePicker is easy to use, and for the developer it is easy to implement. Visually it replicates a typical Windows® interface, presenting the user with a familiar ‘look and feel,’ making them more efficient and effective.


ASP.NET Developer Benefits
- Quick and simple to get going – single-file installation
- A broad interface for customization, with design-time support
- No need to write date validation code or regular expressions
- No need to write or understand JavaScript or client-side scripting
- All cultural and locale issues already solved
- An "out of the box" user interface for acquiring a DateTime object
- Simple customization to tailor the user interface
- No need for cross-browser testing
- Straightforward data integration (DataGrids, DataLists, etc)

Business Benefits
- Unique support for financial dates and periods (e.g. Q2 2006, and h2 2007).
- Collect more accurate data from end-users
- Reduce intranet and Internet web application development timescales and costs
- Reduce web application support costs through a self-explanatory user interface
- Rich Windows-like applications within an intranet and Internet site, reducing client-application installation costs
- Increased efficiency of information processing by end-users
- A more friendly user interface for end-users and web site visitors
- Reusable and adaptable across multiple applications, including secure sites
- Resolves all user interface localization issues with dates in different cultures

End User Benefits
- A consistent and familiar user interface (like Microsoft Outlook®)
- Quick and straightforward date and time selection
- The ability to select dates from context (e.g. holidays, schedules)
- No confusion over the date format (US, European, etc)
- Reduced keyboard-to-mouse hand movement
- A user interface with stylistic consistency with the host web site
- Intelligently adaptable, providing support for all web browsers