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InstantForum.NET is a robust, feature packed, high performance ASP.NET & SQL Server discussion forum designed to allow you to quickly & easily create, customize and maintain vibrant online communities or internal collaboration.
InstantForum.NET boosts the most comprehensive administrator control panel available within any of today's ASP.NET forum solutions. With our recent 4.1 release InstantForum.NET is now the first ASP.NET forum to take advantage of Ajax technology to start offering a quicker, cleaner UI experience.
v4.1 provides moderators with optional support to edit topic titles and descriptions in-line within a forum without the need for post-backs. A new auto-complete textbox also now offers username suggestions as you type. This is useful when composing private messages, searching for member posts or as an admin associating users as moderators with forums.
As you would expect InstantForum.NET offers unlimited customization support via our skinning model, HTML wrappers or master page templates. Each forum skin can be customized to support a completely unique layout or visual appearance. A single central style sheet controls every aspect of a skins appearance. Skins, wrappers & master page templates can be applied globally to all forums or to any specific forum.
Language packs ensure every aspect of the forum including e-mail's and even the spell-checker dictionary can be localized to suite your needs. As all text is centralized modifying any email template or changing any text is very simple.
Role based permissions allow administrators to control which forums are visible based on the roles associated with users. Our innovative permission sets feature provides unparalleled configurative control over the features & posting options available within visible forums.
A well designed object oriented code base, highly optimized database schema, strongly typed cached data objects & collections and a unique state management system ensures InstantForum.NET can scale to accommodate the most demanding high-traffic communities.
These features combined with attractive pricing, a tested product, first class support, eloquent design and comprehensive documentation has made InstantForum.NET the obvious choice for .NET developers since we were first to market in 2000.
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- High Performance, High Scalability
Designed from the ground-up for massive performance & scalability. We ensure performance through high-quality, highly optimized code, customizable data caching, strongly typed data entities & collections, a optimized paging algorithm supporting hundreds of thousands of pages & millions of posts, built-in support for SQL Server full-text search, a threaded email queuing system, well written layered code & 100% managed .NET assemblies. InstantForum.NET can also grow with your community with complete support for load balanced enviroments. - Unlimited Forums, Sub Forums, Posts, Polls, Events, Skins, Users & Groups
Unlike other forum software, there is no built in limitations or restrictions for any of the features within InstantForum.NET. Licensing is based on the number of installations. You can have as much forum data as your database server can handle. - Comprehensive Administration & Moderation
Boosts the most comprehensive admin control panel available in any ASP.NET forum today. Supports unlimited administrators and moderators. Control every aspect of your forum (over 600 admin options). Members can be assigned specific moderation rights (edit, pin, move, delete, close) within any specific forum. - Skins, Templates & Localization
Each skin can have a completely unique layout and styling easily controlled through a single CSS file. Skins can be customized to support a completely unique layout or visual appearance. The use of unique wrappers and ASP.NET master page techniques ensures designers can easily integrate an existing design around the forum. Skins can be applied globally to all forums or to any specific forum allowing several individual forums to have there own unique look and feel. Language packs can easily be created and applied to the forum to localize every aspect of your community. - Sophisticated, Flexible Security Model
Role based ASP.NET forms authentication provides control over which forums, topics & events are visible to your users, As InstsnatForum.NET also uses forms based authentication you can easily share authentication between multiple web applications on the same domain. - Flexible, Unrivaled User Permissions
Unique overrideable permission sets provide control over available features & options within the forum. You can assign permission sets to member groups, individual members or even specific member groups within specific forums. Ban or restrict permissions for problem members. Unrivaled control over permissions & features (Over 120 permission options). - Installation & Support
A simple to use installation wizard is provided to get you up and running in minutes. Comprehensive documentation and fast, friendly technical support is provided during installation to assist should you run into any problems. - Visual Studio.NET Compatible
Full Visual Studio.NET solution & source code available. InstantForum.NET 4.1 currently supports both Visual Studio.NET 2003 & 2005 running either .NET v1.1 or .NET v2.0. We've also had reports from customers using InstantForum.NET under Visual Studio.NET 2008 / .NET v3.5 although we won't officially support this until our v4.2 release. - Developer Friendly & Documented
Reusable API with intellisense support within Visual Studio.NET, Fully commented, clean object oriented source-code with class reference documentation. Full installation & product documentation. - Well Designed
Object orientated code following common design patterns & best practices. Clean, intuative, organized user interface. Compatible with all major browsers. - Comprehensive
Over 600 admin options, 124,363 lines of code.
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Web Server
- Microsoft© Windows 2000, Server 2003 or XP Professional
- Internet Information Services 4+
- Microsoft© .NET v1.1 or v2.0 Framework
- Microsoft© SQL Server 2000, 2005, Microsoft© MSDE or SQL Server 2005 Express
- Internet Explorer 5.0+, Mozilla 1.0+, Netscape 4.7+
- JavaScript & Cookies must be enabled
- Microsoft© Visual Studio.NET 2003 or 2005.
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