Does anyone know of third party software that can be used in a .Net application similar to what facebook chat does?
A quick Google search turned up this. Conversely, maybe you're looking for something more like one of these.
We'll gladly help you with any programming related issues when you get into developing and integrating something for your site. But it sounds like you're still at the Googling-for-ideas phase.
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Well, I am developing a virtual classroom i.e. Online classroom, It is a website which provides faculties and students an interactive way of learning. I am almost done just I am stuck with this video conferencing module. I am using ASP.NET C#. I have searched a lot for this. Some information I found is:
1) I got to know about ConferenceXP module. Which is developed by microsoft and enables developers to use it to build their own video-audio conference. I also searched a lot about it, but I am confused on how to implement it in my website. Any suggestion with steps on how to use conferenceXP in website.
2) Though i searched a lot, but yet if some links were left, I am asking this again that Is there any better and easier way( Easier and fast beacuse i need to implement this into my website in 7 days) to implement video-audio chat application in website using C#(Or any other technology working with visual studio).
3) While searching I found something like I can use Skype with my online classroom, Any suggestions related this?
Thanks in advance.
You can use Openmeetings from regardless of your technology. The whole interface is SOAP/REST based.
I'm looking for specific asp.net examples to allowing signin to a site using google account but not really seeing any. I see lots of specs for openid and while I get the general idea and love it I just want some code that allows this to happen for google within .net but not seeing any. Any examples around that maybe I just haven't found?
I'm not really interested in learning the details. I get the jist and trust what I'm reading about it and agree its a good thing. I just want some .net code to implement this.
I'm new to Flex, not new to web services, but definitely not sure how to get started with authenticating as a user against the Desire2Learn API within the Flex platform.
Some examples would really help, and maybe promote some of the great tablet apps that could get developed. Are there any public samples out there? If not with Flex, then similar platforms?
Looking mostly here: http://code.google.com/p/desire2learn-valence/
There are no samples provided by Desire2Learn at this point. However, the source code for other platforms are posted. So you could take something like the c# code and combine that with the wiki docs in order to move it into flash/flex. (Also, javascript samples should be coming down the pipe)
If you create anything please feel free to contribute back to the project site.
I have a silverlight application and i want is that my application should ask for the user name and password and the client should be able to start chat with their facebook friends.Could this be done? and if so then is there sample code available
This is the question of what kind of API Facebook provides. There aren't any inherent issues here if Facebook exposes this sort of functionality to third parties. I'm not an expert in this, but reading the facebook documentation should help you out.
http://developers.facebook.com
Also maybe check out these links:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/LiveMessage.send
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:chat-invite
It looks like some folks developed a framework to more easily interop facebook with .net based technologies:
http://facebooktoolkit.codeplex.com/
Here they are discussing the LiveMessage stuff:
http://facebooktoolkit.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=62384
People did facebook chat clones on the web, and in standalone apps (http://www.faceoffim.com/), so at least in principle it's certainly doable.
I did do some googling and searching on this site but did not find exactly what I was looking for.
I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction here. I'm an ASP.NET/SQL Server developer and would like to develop a (intially) basic social networking site (gasp). Before I start from scratch with a blank solution in ASP.NET, I'm wondering if there are any frameworks out there ASP.NET specific that would serve as a good starting point. I'm already thinking of using the Google Maps jquery control for my Google Maps integration, as well as the 'sharethis' control for my social networking website sharing integration. Captcha for human authentication... But other than that I'm not sure what I can leverage... Nothing on Google jumped out at me on my search terms.
I'm also wondering if anyone else has done something similar and could share their post mortem/war stories with me.
I'm also open to learning a new platform/language if it would mean saving time - my experience is mostly in ASP.NET, so that is what I plan on using if it makes the most sense. My initial requirements are basic and realistic - profile setup (images, information, etc.), 'group' creation, Google Map integration, calendar controls shared by groups, SMS support, discussion forums among groups, searching for groups, OpenID integration most likely, etc. I am not going to try to build the entire site and then release it, but take baby steps and release pieces of functionality at a time.
Any advice is greatly appreciated for a broad question such as this. Thanks again.
I've found DotNetOpenAuth which seems to be a nice API for handling OpenID for ASP.NET web forms. They also have an ASP.NET MVC version
I also found MS Web Platform. This looks like some good stuff. Anyone ever use it and think it would do well for this sort of app?
I found a library for DotNetNuke called ActiveSocial. It's priced right ($500) and has more than the features I need but lacks some. I wonder if anyone here has ever used AS before. Is DNN easy to extend so I can add Google Maps functionality and such? It doesn't say anywhere on snowcovered (the vendor that sells AS) if AS comes with the source. If it didn't, then I might be screwed because I wouldn't be able to integrate the functionality I want.
I went through this exercise about 15 months ago when I built a SNS for a client. Hoping to find some basic framework for Friends, Chat, Profiles etc I was pretty disappointed.
That said, in retrospect I wish rather than building one that we would have purchased a solution like Community Server. As with most projects I looked at the problem scope with beer, no strike that, ambitious goggles on and the level of work to cover all the edge cases was more than I imagined.
Tread careful my friend, tread careful.
I think this is what you're looking for. Kigg is an open source ASP.NET MVC app that would be a good starting point for what you want. Here is the url: http://www.codeplex.com/Kigg
You can also find a site that is using this here: http://dotnetshoutout.com/
At the very least you will learn the ASP.NET MVC framework which is fantastic.
While not exactly intended to be used for social networking sites, both of these frameworks can help you so you don't have to start from scratch:
DotNetNuke: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/
Umbraco: http://umbraco.org/
Also, for an out of the box solution (no code involved) you could always try this: http://www.ning.com/
Good luck!