Can I do it in ASP??

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Actually I have developed a software for Hospital Management System in Visual Basic. The responnse for it was very good. Now I want to enter the market with its revised version encompassing the online chat facility for the doctors. Iam very at ease with VB but dont have experience in ASP. I have developed a prototype of the chat application for the clinical software in VB and tested in our intranet it was fine. I have not at all used Socket Programming I have used only pur C/S database Programming with the Timer control which will connect to the database at the specified time intervals.
I dont want to use any sockets, pure DB programming only. So are there any compnonets in ASP which will connect to the Server database at the specified intervals of time.

Sorry for everyone for giving this much detailed information why i have given is coz someone has got to undertstand the situation.

Once again thanks mates for spending in ur valuable time.

[Bios]

to do this in ASP you don't need a control, but the problem with ASP chat rooms is the only way to do it is with an HTML meta refresh tag, but this means that the chat text has to refresh completly every ? seconds. That's why ASP isn't usually used for chat. You could, however, easily make a message board. The problem with ASP coding is it is all run on the server before the page is even displayed to the browser, but you could write it all in ASP except for the window that displays the chat text, and use a Java applet for that.
or you could always just settle for a message board

Hope this helps,