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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 & maintain vibrant online communities or offer internal collaboration between teams & departments within your organization.
Boosting the most comprehensive set of administrator & moderator features available within any of today's ASP.NET forum solutions InstantForum.NET ensure complete control over your community.
As you would expect InstantForum.NET offers unlimited customization possibilities through 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.
Designed from the ground-up with performance in mind InstantForum.NET employs several techniques & highly optimized code to ensure high performance, scaleable communities. Don't take our word, visit the SQL Server experts at SQLServerCentral.com and join there community of over 620,000 members already using InstantForum.NET.
Well designed object oriented code, optimized database schema, strongly typed objects & collections, data caching & a unique state management system ensure InstantForum.NET can scale to accommodate the most demanding high-traffic communities.
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 child's play.
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.
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High Performance, High Scalability
Designed from the ground-up for massive performance & salability. 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 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.
Easy Installation & Prompt 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
Solution & VB.NET source code available. InstantForum.NET 4.1 currently supports both Visual Studio.NET 2003, 2005 & 2008. You will need to run through the migration wizard to use InstantForum.NET within 2005 or 2008.
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, complete documentation.
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New Customers
InstantForum.NET is available to order online. The product will be available immediately after the check out process. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions before purchase or would like to request an evaluation.
Existing Customers
Existing customers can upgrade to the latest version of InstantForum.NET from our upgrade page.
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