- Salt Lake City, UT — Richer Components, Inc. today announced a partnership with DiscountASP.NET's award winning hosting service.  Under terms of the partnership users of Richer Components will receive a significant discount on DiscountASP's hosting service and users of DiscountASP will be able to use Richer Components in their applications hosted there.

The DiscountASP.NET and Richer Components partnership provides ASP.NET developers with access to leading ASP.NET components for building next-generation web applications. Customers can develop web applications using the component evaluation version on their local developer environment and upon uploading to DiscountASP.NET webservers, the components will be fully functional.

Under this partnership, DiscountASP.NET customers can also receive a 15% discount on any purchase of Richer Components component suite. In addition, Richer Component users can get 6 months free hosting for the first year of DiscountASP.NET’s base ASP.NET hosting annual plan.

"We now offer the latest RichTextBox and the new RichMessageBoard components on both our Windows 2008 hosting and Windows 2003 hosting platform.” said DiscountASP.NET's Vice President of Marketing, Takeshi Eto. "Our goal is to work with leading component vendors to offer best of breed components on our ASP.NET web hosting environment, so that our customers have the tools to take their web applications to the next level.”

The latest release, RichTextBox v3.6, can be used to add WYSIWYG textboxes to ASP.NET web application giving users Microsoft Office style text and HTML editing capabilities with spell check and multilingual support. The new RichMessageBoard v3 allows developers to drop in forums, comments, and ratings to any website page enabling a Web 2.0 experience. Both components also support a wide variety of backend database options.

“Our team has made significant updates to the Richer Components component suite and we wanted to work with an ASP.NET hosting leader to help bring them to market,” said Allen Anderson, COO at Richer Components, Inc. “We also wanted to test our components on the new Windows 2008 hosting platform and DiscountASP.NET allowed us to experience deploying and using our components just as one of our customers would experience. We are thrilled to partner with DiscountASP.NET.”