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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 online communities or offer internal collaboration within your organization.

As you would expect InstantForum.NET offers unlimited customization possibilities through our skinning system, HTML wrappers or standard ASP.NET master page support. InstantForum.NEt makes it easy for developers to provide a seamless single sign-on experience between your existing ASP.NET based forms authentication web site and InstantForum.NET.

Boosting the most comprehensive set of administrator & moderator features available within any of today's ASP.NET forum solutions InstantForum.NET offers unparalleled control over your community via easy to use AJAX moderation options.

InstantForum.NET is a true enterprise level application offering a n-tiered fully managed object oriented code base & powerful full-text search capabilities. Scalability is ensured with support for load-balanced environments.

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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Features


Lighting Quick User Interface = Great User Experience

InstantForum.NET 2010 includes many improvements around the user interface to make it easier & more responsive for your users to b participate or just browse within your community. Several key areas within 2010 have been updated to use our new JSON based web services API to quickly update only areas of the page that need refreshing. Key UI elements are now built up dynamically on the client side (via JavaScript) with the server simply responsible for returning the data needed to populate the controls.
Comprehensive Admin Control Panel

As an administrator within InstantForum.NET you can manage every aspect of your community using the secure Admin Only Control Panel. From here you can create & manage your forums, set-up moderators and manage your members, groups & permissions. As an administrqator you can also use the bulk message feature to send bulk private messages or emails to your community members.
Improved AJAX enabled Moderation Tools

With the 2010 release we've now updated all moderation options (approving, moving, pinning topics etc) to take advantage of AJAx allowing your forum moderators to now much more quickly manage the forums on a day to day basis. Moderators can also easily update topic titles directly from within a forum index without having to go into each topic and edit individually.
OpenID Authentication (Optional)

Make it easier for your users to get started within your community. Visitors can login using an existing Google, Twitter, Yahoo, AOL or OpenId account. You can of course also still create user accounts directly within the forum and again we've made improvements for 2010 to simplify the registration process reducing this now to a single page with only four required fields.

Light weight cross browser, WYSIWYG Editor

The WYSIWYG editor used when posting within InstantForum.NET has been re-written from the ground-up for 2010 to offer improved performance and a much more consistant cross browser posting experience. The new editor now also makes it very easy to embed YouTube videos directly into forum posts. The editor will also downgrade to a standard text field if JavaScript is completely disabled in the browser.
Simple, 2 click banning process

With InstantForum.NET 2010 administrators & moderators can now ban troublesome members or anonymous posters directly from the forum front-end. We've added a simple banning menu to make it a 2 click process to ban members & delete spammers or abusive members. Banning members will ensure there IP address is banned preventing them from creating a new account.
Single Sign On / ASP.NET forms authentication

If you own an existing web site using ASP.NET forms authentication InstantForum.NET 2010 makes it very easy to provide a single sign on experience between your existing web site and your fresh installation of InstantForum.NET 2010. We offer an easy to use API and working integration examples. For further information please read our integration documentation.
Search Engine Friendly

Whilst providing a dynamic AJAX driven user interface you can of course be confident InstantForum.NET 2010 will still be indexed by all popular search engines. We use a simple URL structure (no query strings) to ensure bots can easily spider content. Topic and forum titles are always used as the title for the page to further improve SEO.
Customizable Themes & Unique Skins

InstantForum.NET offers support for multiple skins. Each skin can have a unique layout or visual style. A designer friendly, CSS based approach for layout & styling within skins. Developers can easily wrap existing web site designs around InstantForum.NET using standard ASP.NET master pages.
Complete Cross Browser Compatibility

All mark-up generated by InstantForum.NET is optimized and minified to ensure small light-weight pages & responsive load times. All mark-up is now strict W3C valid XHTML which also offers a performance increase as your browser is not attempting to compensate for any poor HTML during the rendering process.
Tagging System

To help improve post discoverability you can now add tags to all posts within InstantForum.NET. Users can navigate tags either as a list of most popular or as a tag cloud in alphabetical order. You can also use the forum search to search for posts with a specific tag. If your search term matches any of the tags associated with posts those posts will be ranked above others as it's likely posted tagged with your search term are most relevant.
Follow friends within your community

You can now follow individual members within your community. This will notify you via email if your friends post within the forum. We display the number of followers you have on your profile page & the most followed members on your members page. Hopefully this will encourage members within your community to fight for the top spot.
Share with Facebook & Twitter

You can now easily share any post within the forum on either Facebook or Twitter with just a single click. You'll find two small buttons below each post whih allow you to tweet or add the post to Facebook.

Full-Text, Quick Search

InstantForum.NET 2010 offers support for SQL Server full-text search to ensure your search always remains quick regardless of the size of your community. This also allows us to sort your search results by the relevancy of the search terms within topics. All our search queries & database indexes have been highly optimized to ensure the fastest possible search regardless of the amount of data in your system.
Scale to meet the demands of yourcommunity

InstantForum.NET 2010 follows several best practices to improve support for load-balanced environments. We store any required session data within the SQL Server database avoiding the ASP.NET session object to minimize load-balancing overhead.
Comprehensive .NET managed API

We've improved many areas of our code API to make it more intuitive for developers to navigate around our namespaces and take advantage of our API from within existing projects. Developers leveraging our API from an existing project will find create, update, delete & select methods to work with all objects within InstantForum.NET.
New Web Services API

Our new web services API makes it very easy for developers to add a simple web reference to an existing project to query data held within InstantForum.NET. Results for all web services are provided in both JSON & XML format allowing developers to work with results both server & client side. We provice client-side proxy classes developers can use to easily work with JSON data returned via the forum web services.
Pushing the envelope of performance

Every aspect of InstantForum.NET has been written with performance & scalability in mind. All server side & client side code is highly optimized to ensure a minimal server foot print and light-weght responsive page load times for clients. A well designed database schema & well written stored procedures ensure indexes on columns are leveraged for optimal query performance. Data is cached i momory and only requested again from the database if the data changes.
Extensible / Plug-In Framework

InstantForum.NET provide a plug-in framework allowing developers add additional functionality without modifying the core product code. This allows you to keep your InstantForum.NET installation right up to date without worrying about losing your medications. For example if you wanted to capture unique data during the forum registration process you can use our custom registration form plug-in to capture this data. When we release an update to the core product your plug-in will continue to work and you won't need to re-apply any changes to the forum files.
Compatible with Visual Studio 2010 & 2008

InstantForum.NET 2010 is provied with a Visual Studio 2010 solution file. This allows you to work with the projects that comprise InstantForum.NET within Visual Studio.NET & receive the full benefits of developing or extending our software within a modern IDE.

Addons


Active Directory for InstantForum.NET

InstantKB.NET Active Directory Connect InstantForum.NET to your existing Active Directory data store. This is great for enterprises looking for centralized community management.

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Online Demo


InstantForum.NET Online Demo

To access the admin control panels please login using the account details below. Once logged in a small "Admin CP" link will be available in the top right corner.

Email: admin@admin.com
Password: admin

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Existing customers can upgrade to the latest version of InstantForum.NET from our upgrade page. Minor updates are always provided free of charge. You will only need to purchase upgrade for major feature releases.

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