Chat box can make websites and web applications more user interactive and provide a dynamic look too. The functionality of chat box 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 chat box, 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 chat box for your website or web applications. But most suitable and easy approaches are few (some of these I mentioned below in a chart).
For developing chat box for your website or web application you can follow these 3 approaches.
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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)
![Add class file]()
- Design your chat box (through HTML and CSS).
- Coding (as shown below):
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Chat Box | Development
The chat box code that I am describng 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;
}
}