Mango Chat – ASP.NET jQuery AJAX Chat control facebook/gmail style

Social networking websites have drawn the interest of many people from all over the world - the current trend is to start a social networking site for gaining popularity and not just from earning money. One of the core features needed in a Social Networking site is the chat.

Mango Chat makes that easy for ASP.NET developers. Mango chat is a full featured ASP.NET chat component for ASP.NET developer that can be easily be integrated to any ASP.NET website via simple drag and drop. The interface is fully customizable as it’s made using jQuery themes. Developers can easily modify the theme of their choice to have the design of their websites integrated in Mango chat.

Mango chat is super easy to setup and integrate. The chat is available in the form of a web control. All a developer needs to do is add a reference of the control to their application and then simply drag and drop the control on their Master Page or any other specific page where they want the chat enabled.

jQuery and AJAX are used in Mango chat to minimize bandwidth and server utilization. High numbers of users are supported without any negative impact on response time.

One of the best things in Mango chat that is not available in any other chat controls for ASP.NET is the compact size. It runs in the bottom right hand corner similar to gmail and facebook chat. Takes minimum screen real estate so that the developer can utilize maximum space for other core features of the application.

Multiple options for Data store are available. Ships with built in support for XML, in memory and SQL Server. Has customer support to extend Database provider, so developers can easily write their own custom Database providers for Oracle, MySQL or any other Database that they are using. Mango chat support can assist with the creation of these Custom Data Providers.

The chat has multi language support so the chat can be used in websites of any language at all. Resource files are provided in which static chat control text can be updated for any language that is needed.

There is no 3^rd party plugin required needed on server end or on the client end which makes it very convenient for the users as well as the developers. All they need is JavaScript enabled in their browsers.

Emoticons are available for users while chatting. Sound effects are also available. Both these options can be disabled very easily if need to be disabled by the developer.

Complete documentation and developer guide is available on the website. Video tutorials are soon to come on youtube and other video sites.