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Dear sir/madam,

I am building an asp.net web portal. We have a client requirement for live chat integration with our web portal.

I was searching for a free online chat service, but i couldn't able find one which i am looking for.

My requirement is similar to providesupport.com online help.

At the end, as usual i am raising my request at my favourite stackoverflow.com

Please suggest me some chat api for webportal which can be customizable with good look and feel. Either free/purchase.

I am using asp.net 3.5 with c# looking for a chat api similar to "skype" for data exchange(no need to use database while exchanging data between the clients)

Thanks in advance. Please give me some suggestions, i need it urgently.

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Hi,

I've recently published an opensource chatting application over at CodePlex. It takes inspiration from Google Talk as well as Facebook chat.

It uses XML to store messages and chat sessions etc.

Check it out @ http://aspnetjquerychat.codeplex.com/

Ali Kazmi
Thanks for your support Ali.Our client finally postponed this implementation for the next phase.The application is nice and straight forward.It works fine when i run the application through file system.I couldn't able to run the application while running through IIS or virtual directory.It was giving a error that "unable to debugg through web server"
Madhu
@Madhu. As stated on the project page. You need to give rights to ASPNET and NETWORK SERVICE accounts to be able to write on the 'Data' subfolder. I also recently added an in-memory mode that doesn't requires writing to file system at all. You can get the latest version off CodePlex at http://aspnetjquerychat.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets to try it out
Ali Kazmi