Publisher review:RichDatePicker is the ASP.NET component of choice for pop-up calendar style date selection on a web page. 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
Features:
- Date selection.RichDatePicker™ provides a familiar and trustworthy date selection interface to end-users. It provides a rich browser-based interface at three levels of richness (depending on the browser) and brings web based applications up to the same level as desktop applications in terms of user-interface quality.
- Time selection. RichDatePicker offers a complete time-selection interface so the end-user can specify not just a date, but also a time within that date, making RichDatePicker™ ideal for calendaring and timetabling applications.
- Financial periods. RichDatePicker™ fully supports financial periods and offers an intuitive interface to allow end-user selection in financial and accounting applications: Quarters : Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 , Half-years: H1 and H2
- 'Day & Month' selection. End-users can use RichDatePicker™ to select an anniversary (a date with no Year) for example '4 Nov', thereby making it ideal for calendaring, and personal data applications where the specific year is not necessary. The interface presented is simpler, and removes both the year selection, and also the weekday labels.
- 'Month & Year' selection. End-users can use RichDatePicker™ to select an 'expiry' style date in e-commerce applications comprising just a month and year, for example 'Nov 72'. In this mode of operation, the calendar reduces the interface to display only the essentials, the month and the year - and all by setting a single property on the component.
- Multiple date selection. RichDatePicker™ offers multiple date selection, so the picker can be configured to allow the end-user to specify multiple dates. This functionality also extends to cover multiple date & time selection. Multiple date selection removes the need for developers to create complex user interfaces to acquire multiple dates from end-users.
- Restricted date ranges. It is easy to limit selected dates to a specific range, thereby ensuring that the date information provided by end-users is valid and appropriate.
- Week selection. RichDatePicker™ fully supports week selection. By setting the DatePeriod property to StartOfWeek, RichDatePicker can be set to request the user selects a specific week. This is in addition to the existing functionality that allows for selection by day, anniversary, month, quarter year, or half year.
RichDatePicker 2.0 is a ASP.NET script for Forms and Controls scripts design by Richer Components.
It runs on following operating system: Windows.
Operating system:Windows
RichDatePicker 2.0 script details 
