Professional End-User 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
• NEW - 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
• NEW - 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
• NEW - “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, personal data applications.
• NEW - “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”.
• NEW - 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.

Highly Usable Interface

• NEW - Label property. RichDatePicker provides the ability to specify what label appears in the RichDatePicker prior to a date being selected, for example “Please select a date”. This ensures the interface is clear and intuitive.
• NEW - Date-specific labels. RichDatePicker can highlight any date with specific text, for example marking special days, events, or holidays to assist the end-user in selecting an appropriate date. Support is included for recurring date labels, and customized styling of each date. These labels mean the end-user has extensive information available before selecting dates and will therefore be more likely to enter valid data.
• NEW - “Read Only” mode. RichDatePicker provides the ability to set the picker into a mode whereby it displays a selected date, but does not allow that date to be changed. This is in keeping with other form controls with an Enabled property, and provides consistent information when displaying and entering dates.
• Rapid date selection – the ability to quickly jump between months and between years without post-backs or browser “clicks” provides a quick and painless interface to end-users.
• Fast page downloads – RichDatePicker implements a compact client-side page weight. Core client-side code is shared between instances on the same page ensuring end-users can process pages rapidly.
• Start on the right date – There is a property (VisibleDate) to set the default RichDatePicker start position independently of the selected date (SelectedDate) ensuring the date initially presented matches the users’ expectations.
• NEW - Improved presentation. RichDatePicker now appears on top of in-page Java applets and Macromedia Flash® animations (Internet Explorer only), renders more compactly in Netscape 6.x and above, and includes improved cross-browser support with three-level browser sensing and rendering.
• Fully cross-browser compatible - graceful degradation in all older browsers, and strong support for recent browsers including three-level rendering providing advanced interfaces in recent browsers. These improvements are part of our commitment to handling browser compatibility issues so you do not need to.

Full Design-time Support

• Easy to configure using point-and-click – RichDatePicker fully supports Visual Studio .NET design-time features and provides the ability to configure the RichDatePicker using the property sheet, avoiding the need to write extensive customization code.
• Drag-and-drop. RichDatePicker supports the Visual Studio .NET ability to simply drag and drop a RichDatePicker onto your Web form, saving time writing code and remembering tag names.
• Support for Visual Studio .NET, Visual Studio .NET 2003, and Web Matrix. RichDatePicker works with all Microsoft developer tools both using source code editing, and design-time visual development, and can even be used with Notepad or any other source code editor.

Simple Installation

• Easy installation. RichDatePicker provides single-file installation into your Web application. In order to make use of the software, your deployment need only include a single file, thereby reducing your deployment time and cost.
• Single-file installation of samples, demos, docs. For evaluation and training purposes, all distributions come both as a single DLL, and also a rich installation package that installs and configures a sample Web application including pages demonstrating all the key features to save you evaluation time.

Complete Visual Customization

• Configure the orientation – You can specify where the picker appears in relation to the button or link or image that opens it, ensuring the picker can be adapted to suit your application’s needs.
• Customizable picker. RichDatePicker provides the ability to specify how the calendar is opened (button, text, image, etc) ensuring it matches the style of Web forms your application uses.
• Fully customisable appearance. You have complete control over the fonts, colors and spacing used in the RichDatePicker user interface, again ensuring it matches your existing style.

Fully Culture & Locale Sensitive

• Multiple languages. Automatic localization into any .NET-supported language/culture. RichDatePicker auto-localizes into virtually every common language, and provides support for all known date formats, thereby obviating the need for your development team to spend time understanding these cultural issues and testing across locales.
• Set the Start Day of the Week. You can set the start day of the week for the Calendar display by setting the dot.net framework DayOfWeek enumeration and providing deeper locale support. This day varies by country as to whether it’s Sunday or Monday.
• NEW - Date display formats. With RichDatePicker it is now possible to specify exactly how the date itself should be displayed after selection, including the common Western format like “January 1 2004”. Using this feature you can completely customize the date display for your end users.
• NEW - Extended localization. When RichDatePicker is shown in an older Web browser it gracefully degrades to display the date as a series of drop-down menus to provide fully functional date picker support. With the new RichDatePicker release, the order of these menus now matches the locale culture of the RichDatePicker configuration for up-level rendering, providing an end-to-end globalized date picker.

Extensive Developer Features

• Built for ASP.NET. RichDatePicker is designed from the ground up in Microsoft Visual C# for the ASP.NET platform. It’s built by ASP.NET experts, and suitable for anyone working with ASP.NET whether they are new to Web development, or a long-time guru.
• ASP.NET Validator support. RichDatePicker provides full support for the standard ASP.NET validation controls allowing you to tightly control what date and time information your application accepts.
• Customize what happens when the date is changed – RichDatePicker provides a Server side OnChange event to allow you to control exactly what happens when a user selects the date.
• Support for a null value. RichDatePicker provides support for a null value, thereby allowing your user interface to cleanly support the end-user not selecting a date or time.
• Fully data-aware. RichDatePicker supports data binding, including editable DataGrids, and DataLists. You can quickly add RichDatePicker support to a grid and display (or edit) data directly from your database.
• ASP.NET SmartNavigation. RichDatePicker functions correctly with Microsoft® ASP.NET’s in-built SmartNavigation feature so pages containing a RichDatePicker will re-open in the same place after a post-back.
• Global Assembly Cache ready. RichDatePicker is provided as a strong named (signed) assembly and is ready for use in a shared environment in the Global Assembly Cache (for example in a multiple Web site or shared hosting environment).

Complete Browser Compatibility

• Internet Explorer 5.0 and above
• Netscape 6.0 and above
• Opera 6.0 and above.
• Safari on the Macintosh
• Mozilla
• Firefox

In all other browsers, RichDatePicker degrades gracefully to an HTML 3.2 user interface consisting of three drop-down menus (the order of these can be customized according to cultural and language requirements). No software of any kind needs to be installed on the end-users machine. The Web server requirements for RichDatePicker™ are a Microsoft Windows® computer running Microsoft ASP.NET v1.0 or v1.1.

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