Understanding Chat Box in .NET

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

Chat Box | Functionalities

We get many useful applications and functionalities from the chatbox, and the following are the most useful.

• Provides dynamic look
• Makes website more user-interactive
• It works as a web forum, too
• Requires less loading time
• It makes websites more stylish
• It 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).

To develop a chat box for your website or web application, you can follow these three approaches.

Chat Box | Procedure

No extra effort is required to develop 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;  
    }  
}