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qxotk
qxotk

Reputation: 2403

Can Anyone Recommend an ASP.NET MVC Group Chat Control?

I need to provide a window on an ASP.NET MVC web page where registered users of the site can group chat live.

Can anyone recommend a component or control that can provide real-time group chat that I can embed on an ASP.NET MVC page?

I am willing to use free or commercial components, as well as a web service.

I looked into a few web 2.0 approaches, like:

What's unique here is that I need to enable site users to chat live with each other - not with a central support person (like LivePerson, or the Meebo widget).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2388

Answers (2)

Adam Porad
Adam Porad

Reputation: 14471

There's an unofficial developer API for Campfire called Tinder.

I saw that that 37 Signals was promoting it on their website here, so it's probably pretty good.

Upvotes: 0

Ben Scheirman
Ben Scheirman

Reputation: 40991

All you really need is an action to post new messages to, an action to poll for updates, and a div to place the items.

You can accomplish all of this pretty easily with ajax and those two actions on a ChatController in ASP.NET MVC.

+1 for Campfire though, it's a really well polished tool.

Upvotes: 3

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