Free ASP.NET shoutbox/chat

Question

I am searching for a simple and free ASP.NET C# shoutbox/chat application, so i can integrate it in a small gamming portal.

The only important thing is that it should have some sort of "banned list", where the admin can ban and unban people.

So far i got no luck on finding something with this ban functionality, i hope you guys know something like this...

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

As it happened, Scott Hanselman posted about a little gem known as SignalR and how to use it to implement a very simple chat program just today. Pretty interesting stuff.

But can I make a chat application in 12 lines of code?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AsynchronousScalableWebApplicationsWithRealtimePersistentLongrunningConnectionsWithSignalR.aspx

See it running here: http://chatapp.apphb.com/

The banning/unbanning feature you mention would need some work of your own though.

Not sure if its the easiest way to get chat into your site, but its certainly the most interesting :)

Answer 2

Did you try chatango.com? It adds chat facilities on any web page. There might be similar alternatives to this as well.

Also, Steve Orr wrote an ASPx Control for chatting. Not sure how secure it is. check this link : http://steveorr.net/articles/WebChat.aspx