Forum software in VS 2008 Website ?

[Newbi]

Anyone any idea`s of how i could make a forum in a visual studio 2008 website , or any software that i could use .Help would be great

[gep13]

Hello,

There are plenty of examples out there. This is probably one of the best examples:

http://yetanotherforum.net/

I would also suggest that you take a look here:

http://www.asp.net/community/projects

Gary

[sapator]

I've used YAF and is, how should i put it.Meh.
Better try php forums they are much better.
That reminds me that i can't remember what update i need on the IIS to run php...
Ehhh, Gary can you re-copy the nice link you gave me?
thanks.

[gep13]

I've used YAF and is, how should i put it.Meh.

Really?!? That's surprises me!! I have always found it to be very good!

Is this what you are after:

http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

It will set up PHP in IIS for you.

Gary

[sapator]

Yes that's the one.Thanks.
As for YAF. It's a matter of taste but i guess it's kinda naked compared to the php best forums (that's why i asked for the PHP in IIS )

[gep13]

Ah ok, I see what you mean. Although, YAF is open source, so if there is something you think is missing, you can always add it ;-)

Gary

[sapator]

Ok.Fhhh.I finally managed to run php with IIS.The server did not have internet access so the link you provided could not be tested(required contacting to download software).So i had to do it manually.
The worst part was not that, the worst part was trying to make phpbb forum to run.
Really, IF you manage to run it then the forum is great but you have to do many manipulations.If you have mssql it won't play, you have to manage the windows server first.I also had to change some value in php.ini .
Nevertheless what i cannot do still is incorporate the Greek language pack.
Compared to YAF, phpbb has at least 3 times the feature but that makes it very hard to manipulate.I wasted an hour trying to find how to create a topic inside a category and to make it viewable but in phpbb defense i did it without reading instructions.
So to the original OP question, YAF is 10 times easier to set phpbb is better to my opinion but very hard to set up.

[gep13]

Hey sap,

Thanks for the info. I can't say that I have ever tried to setup phpbb. Sounds like you had some fun though

Gary

[sapator]

Fun.It depends.I had fun after i fixed the damn thing
I'm also going to test simplemachines forum.I like the appearance more but problem is that it does not use standard SQL. I should probably go for SQLite because i don't have a license for mysql and i don't know what problems may arise as this would be in a commercial site.

Edit.
Done.Simplemachines looks better but the 2.0 version is still beta, so, will see.
I preferred PostgreSQL than SQLite. Version 1 of the forum does not support it but version 2 does.

[Newbi]

I dont know where to start when it comes down to installing the forum into my visual studio website , im new to this ive heard it very difficult off a few people any expert assistance would be great.

[gep13]

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

[Newbi]

Thanks for the advice I had a problem installing yaf forum so i will have a look at phb.

[gep13]

Hello,

What exactly was your problem with installing YAF?

Gary

[sapator]

If i remember correctly it also gave me exceptions when i tried to make it play, it however worked if i decided to continue.
Btw i finally will be using phpbb because the admin cannot support - maintain postgreSQL and also mysql, i don't know what is the problem with win server 2003 but it requires .net 4 for the GUI program and then it will give me a nice exception.
Of course i still have the language pack issues in phpbb but i have managed to resolve everything else so if i can resolve this one then i'm good to go.

Edit: Language pack issue solved all good to go!