ASP.net based forum?

[Turkish]

I am looking for an ASP.net based forum. Speed is the most important criteria. I played around with ASP Playground and it seems like a nice, quick forum. Costs about $240 with all discounts applied. Any other alternatives? Thanks.

 

[Markbnj]

Have you looked at Community Server? It's bigger than just a forum, but the pieces work well together. I surveyed the asp.net forum world about six months ago, but I was primarily looking at blogware. I didn't make a list, but there were five or six free contenders.

http://communityserver.com/products/express/

 

[techfuzz]

I've been looking into similar stuff lately such as blogs, CMS, etc. all built on the .NET platform. So far SiteFinity is the best for CMS as best as I can tell. I haven't tried Community Server yet, but I plan to. There are also some forum modules for DotNetNuke, but I haven't looked at any.

techfuzz

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Obviously this forum is ASP based but IIRC it costs far too much to license.

 

[Turkish]

Thank you guys

Markbnj: I'll look into CS. Obviously being free, it's a good contender if everything else is right.

techfuzz: Looks good but we are not looking for a complete CMS at the moment. We already have an ASP.net based site and want to integrate the forums

Godless: for some reason I always thought Fusetalk was based on Macromedia Coldfusion

 

[Markbnj]

techfuzz: Looks good but we are not looking for a complete CMS at the moment. We already have an ASP.net based site and want to integrate the forums

I imagine Community Server will be too much then. It's based around a framework that functions best when it controls user identity and auth, profiles, etc. It might be easier to move the existing site content inside CS than to integrate CS under the existing site.

I used to use a package called PopForums, but it was ASP 1.1, and I am not sure whether Jeff Putz ever got around to updating it. I know he had plans to.

 

[Turkish]

Thanks, I think we will go ahead with ASP Playground. I have been playing around with it on forum.donanimhaber.com (a Turkish hardware site) and it seems to handle 7000+ online users just fine without any speed drops.

Thank you for your help :beer: