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Can anyone recommend the ASP.NET MVC Group Chat Control?

I need to provide a window on an ASP.NET MVC webpage where registered site users can group live chat.

Can anyone recommend a component or control that can provide live group chat that I can embed in an ASP.NET MVC page?

I am ready to use free or commercial components, as well as a web service.

I have looked at several approaches to Web 2.0, for example:

  • Campfire - the problem is that it takes you to a separate site and I can't embed the chat box (at least that's what they said when I contacted support).
  • Meebo - Requires users to have Meebo accounts (I think)

What's unique here is that I need site users to be able to chat with each other and not with a central support person (like LivePerson or Meebo widget).

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All you really need is an action to post new posts, an action to poll for updates, and a div for posting elements.

You can accomplish all of this quite easily with ajax and these two actions in the ChatController in ASP.NET MVC.



+1 for Campfire, although it's a really well polished tool.

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There is an unofficial developer API for Campfire called Tinder .



I saw 37 Signals promoting it on their website here , so it's probably very good.

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