Chat Box in .NET

Chatbox can make websites and web applications more user interactive and provide a dynamic look too. The functionality of chatbox in a website is increasing day by day because it provides some extra functionalities and looks.

 

Chat Box | Functionalities

 

There are many useful applications and functionalities that we get from the chatbox, the following are the most useful:

• Provides dynamic look
• Makes website more user interactive
• Works as a web forum too
• Requires less loading time
• Makes websites more stylish
• Can be created for any type of website

Chat Box | Approaches

 

There are a number of approaches or methodologies available for developing a chat box for your website or web applications. But the most suitable and easy approaches are few (some of these I mentioned below in a chart).

 

For developing a chat box for your website or web application you can follow these 3 approaches.

 

 

Chat Box | Procedure

 

No extra effort is required for developing this functionality for your website. Simply what you need to do is:

• Open Visual Studio
• Create a new page (class file)
   
   
   
• Design your chat box (through HTML and CSS).
• Coding (as shown below):
   

Chat Box | Development

 

The chatbox code that I am describing here is a combination of GAIA Toolkit and Coding. I am doing this coding in C#.

 

Chat Box | Coding | C#.NET

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
public partial class Default3 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    }
    protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Window1.Visible = true;
    }
    private string Chat
    {
        get
        {
            if (Application["a"] == null)
                Application["a"] = "";
            return Application["a"].ToString();
        }
        set
        {
           Application["a"] = value;
        }
    }
    protected void Timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Label1.Text = Chat;
    }
    protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Chat = TextBox1.Text +"<br/>"+ Chat;
    }
}