chat

[Steve_F]

i am wanting to make a chat where people can us a username and password and chat in a room, does anyone have any source exaples of this tht i can take a look at? thanx

[Tequila_worm]

Hehe there are tons of programs out there right now, check google for it, i think you would have an eaiser time developing something like this in asp.

[Eras3r]

nah..... this is mucho ez in vb with winscok control!

[Steve_F]

u wanna work on making one with me?

[Eras3r]

i already made one a few years ago..... a very good one indeed! check out www.vbip.com

[Steve_F]

i cant find it lol

[Eras3r]

my chat program isnt there... but there's many winsock examples there that will put u in the right direction to make ur own.

[<ABX]

you'll need a computer running on the internet all the time with a static ip address or you'll need to register a domain name.

Then you need to create a Server application that handles all the users information. Then you need to design a way that the Chat client logins in and gets the information about the users online.

Your best to brush up on Winsock programming with muliple clients and learn some asp for account signup.

But your going to have to compete with MSN, AOL and other chat Groups for users because if not all some ones friends are on yours then they might not wanna use your chat program, However you could fix this problem by allowing them to interface with MSN, and or AOL but that makes the programming more complex and you would have to keep up with there changes aswell.

Any way those are some things to think about b4 trying this...