Hello,

In all likelihood, unless you do a LOT of work, then a pre-packaged forum software application is not going to become part of your application, but rather a "sub-site" of your website.

Let's say you have a domain called www.Newbi.co.uk, then you would download and run a piece of forum software, let's say YAF, and it would be availabe at www.Newbi.co.uk/forum. It would live as it's own instance in that sub folder called forum, you wouldn't need to do anything to it in Visual Studio.

Gary