Chat Application

Question

Hi I am creating a chat application using ASP.Net and C#. The chat room has frames...and one frame is chat box ---which shows all the messages.. To keep chat box keep collecting the messages and showing it... a meta tag of refresh (may be 2 secs. or so ) is required. This mechanism works fine. But i need to know and implement of some other mechanism by which the chat box can keep listening and collecting showing the messages. As the refresh method looks bad refreshing the frame again an again showing that blue progress bar in the browser...moreover i dont find it to be efficient in terms of performance. I am using .Net remoting concept... but help can also be provided for web service or whatever you find suitable. If any details please contact - dishastanu@yahoo.com Thanks in Advance . Regards Uxi

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Not sure if it will help. See Internet & Web section of the site and I think there are some samples on chat server.

katana · Answer

there is no other way write a Java Applet.. Wait.. well there is a way using layers and DHTML but still it is a cluster. Just write the thing in an Java Applet and you will be fine.

shan_1210 · Answer

Well you can call a .net exe over the web(provided the client has .net on the client machine) so develop a winform app or something and call over the web. If you cant guarantee the client to have .Net on client side then unfortunately sorry .net doesnt have anything thats equivalent of Java applet ! -Shan