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So, What's New in Version 3?

ASPPlayground.NET Version 3 is a totally rewritten version that is based on the ASP.NET 2.0 framework and the ASP.NET AJAX framework. This version supports .NET framework 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5.

This new version of software has several new features and enhancements over the 2.x (current) version:

• Integrated Spell Checker.
• New Skin & Theme feature allows user to change the entire user interface using the ASP.NET's Skin & Theme feature.
• AJAX enabled user action to improve user experience. Fewer full page reloads.
• Reward point system & Mark as answer - user can assign certain points to a question to reward the best answer. Different user groups get different reward points.
• Community moderation - users can now flag messages as inapproriate and automatically remove them without moderator intervention. Auto-ban offender for a set period of time.
• Integrated Captcha to protect the system from spam attacks.
• Forum Filter - users can now decide which forums to see on the user interface.
• Daily & Weekly Digest for forum and topic subscription.
• Totally improved Search Engine- producing more relevant and updated results.
• Pinned message priority levels - moderators can now pin a message and assign priority.
• Splitting / Joining threads - providing a means to join related topics into one or split an off-topic message into a new thread.
• DHTML popup instead of regular popup window which does not trigger popup blockers.
• Totally revamped Photo Gallery interface w/ AJAX to improve usability.
• DHTML menu to make UI less cluttered.
• Moderator Permissions - grant different permission for different moderators.
• Custom PGDCode allows admins to define PGDCode in the admin control panel without having to touch the code.
• User Group Membership Expiration - Allows you to define length of group membership.
• Additional Group Based settings and permissions.
• Forum Management with Inheritance - making forum management a lot easier. Define setting and permission only once and sub forums automatically inherits parent's settings.
• Seamless integration with the ASP.NET Default SQL Membership Provider. No coding required.
• Uses Forms Authentication - easier integration with external membership system (other than the Default SQL Membership Provider).
• Custom Stats with auto update.
• Database based error logger - detect intrusion and captures the offender's IP.
• Asynchronous emailing - prevent CPU threads from blocking the web server request.
• Software carefully designed to support the Medium Trust environment and the new IIS 7 Integrated Pipeline mode.
• There is nothing you have to install on the Windows Server. Just upload and you are ready to go!

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If you value your online community as much as your online business, believe in yourself that your community will expand very soon, and don't want to spend too much money and time for the initial setup of your community, YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.

ASPPlayground.NET SQL Forum Software has been proven to be the most scalable, most feature-packed, and most affordable ASP.NET / ASP + SQL Forum software on the market to date. With a small investment (as low as USD $237), you will get nothing but:

1. Ultra Flexible and Usable Features
   
   
2. Extraordinary, Proven Performance and Scalability
   
   
3. Unlimited Customizability WITHOUT Extra Charge Updated!
   
   
4. Unrivaled, Quick and Friendly Support

Ultra Flexible and Usable Features

We have packed all the necessary features you will ever need and use in an online community setup. Not only did we pack all the useful features into this application, but we also refined each of them to improve usability and flexibility.

Here are a few highlights of our much-improved features over other forum software (this is only a short list of features):

1. Integrated, Powerful Photo Gallery :
   
   Enable your users to share photos online instantly! Completely integrated with our user group permission system, this new component in our powerful forum software allows your members to create public/private galleries, albums, upload photos, and generate thumbnails (with .NET GDI+) for sharing on your community in less than one minute!
   
   Some important features:
   
   
• Post comment and rating for each photo
• Photo slide show
• My Favorites - keep track of important photos in your private Favorites list.
• Advanced/simple view of albums and photos
• Batch upload for photos
• Photo search
• Approve/disapprove new photos (optional)
• Take a look yourself!
  
  
2. Flat (UBB Style) and Threaded interfaces built-in:
   
   Users can set their viewing preferences in their profiles. We use DHTML tree to display threaded interface, and dynamically load the sub tree from database for best performance (sub tree loading on-demand). <screen shot>
   
   
   
3. Message Tracking (subscription) with Admin configurable subscription notification:
   
   Users will be notified and directed to the exact message they track/search for. Admins can enable/disable subscription on a per-forum basis. You can also customize the notification message inside the Admin Panel. <screen shot>
   
   
   
4. Built-in flexible poll:
   
   Creates and modifies poll options with an intuitive interface that has graphical bars + voter tracking feature + IP/Member ID based voter filter. Users will be able to find all polls in a forum with a single mouse click.
   
   Admins and moderators can edit and manipulate the poll result with ease. Members can even create multiple selection poll (checkbox and radio button). <screen shot 1   screen shot 2 (poll editing)>
   
   
   
5. Built-in Private Message system (PM) / Address Book:
   
   Super secure private messaging feature with personal address book. Your users will be able to manage/create multiple folders and contact groups for easy organization. You can also bring up quick address book when sending PM's to a group of users. This PM/Address Book system also features:
   
   
   • ignore list system which users can put annoying members in to block PM's from those members.
   • online buddy list which lists members in your address book when they are online
   • PM notification which can be turned on/off by users (e-mail notification and/or pop-up notification)
     
     <screen shot 1 (PM)  screen shot 2 (address book)>
     
     
     
6. Component-less upload and image dimension checking:
   
   Administrators have the ability to turn on file attachment capability for
   
   
   • each forum, allowing multiple uploads (new in version 2)
   • each forum with size, extension filter
   • private message with size, extension filter
   • custom avatar with image dimension filter
   • custom profile photo with image dimension filter

   Our upload class has been specially designed to operate with virtually no overhead on your server. Unlike many of the script components you will find on the net, our upload class will not stress your server's CPU even when uploading larger files. <screen shot>
   
   

7. Calendar system: (new in version 2)
   
   Admin can create multiple calendars
   
   
   • Integrated event discussion with the forum
   • Calendar subscription - new event notification
   • event sign-up
   • Birthday calendar
   • group based permission
   • supports one time event + 4different recurring event
     • periodic event: repeat every x (days/weeks/months/years)
     • monthly event: repeat on the xth weekday (monday-sunday) of every month
     • monthly event: repeat on day x of every y month
     • anniversary: repeat on x (date) of every year
       
       
8. Search Engine Friendly URL: (new in version 2)
   
   Admin has the ability to make forum message indexable by search engine bots (optional). Dynamic web pages are hard to get indexed because of the query strings appended to the end of the URL. E.g. page.asp?p=3&f=8&d=9 (bolded part is the query string). Search engines will avoid indexing such URL (web page) because they know could be infinite pages associated with page.asp since the content are generated from database.
   
   ASPPlayground.NET takes care of this very problem by generating a static appearance for each message URL:
   
   • "tt.asp?forumid=4" => "/forumid_4/tt.htm"
   • optionally, you can insert the message subject into the converted URL to increase relevance. E.g. "tt.asp?forumid=4" => /interesting_topics/forumid_4/tt.htm
   • By making your forum "search engine friendly", you increases your chance to get indexed by major and minor search engines, and in turn, increase your community exposure to everyone on the Internet (imagine the profit potential)!!
   • Best of all, this feature is completely self-contained meaning that you don't need to install any special software on your server! ASPPlayground.NET is the only forum software that supports this right out of the box!
     
     
9. User-defined registration fields: (new in version 2)
   
   Admins can set up several custom fields to collect information from each member:
   
   • 32 short fields (varchar 200), and 5 long fields (text) are available for Admins to customize.
   • As an admin, you can specify the following for each field:
     • whether to show on registration page
     • whether to allow members to hide this field from the public (4 different options)
     • whether to allow members to update the field
     • whether to show this field to member (like a hidden field)
     • change display order
     • input validation:
       • allow admin to specify multiple regular expressions to validate the input; We provide a test area for testing regular expressions before deployment.
       • allow admin to specify multiple error messages once input validation fails
       • allow admin to specify the HTML interface for the field. e.g. if you want to show a drop-down instead of a text field
         
         
10. Dynamic user ranking/post rating/member rating system:
    
    Admins can use control panel to enable these features on a per-forum basis. The User Ranking System (including user titles) can also be configured to be based on
    
    
    1. number of posts
    2. member's rating
    3. both

    Admins can also assign custom title to a specific user, or a group of users. <screen shot>
    
    

11. Ultra-fast Search Engine (Full-Text Index):
    
    Finding specific posts in a sea of messages (100,000+) takes less than one second! Search Results are sorted and returned to the you based on relevance. Users can specify time frame, forum or category, author name, subject or body, etc. as their search criteria. Searching words based on "meaning" is also supported! <screen shot>
    
    
    
12. FAQ system:
    
    We built an FAQ system right into the forum. This feature can be used for support purposes in that Admins or Moderators can mark important threads as FAQ's.
    
    Users will be able to view all FAQ's marked by Admins or Moderators with a single mouse click, and they can also use our ultra-fast Search Engine to search FAQ's only. <screen shot>
    
    
    
13. Built-in Document Revision System:
    
    You can enable post revision system on a per-forum basis. Once enabled, when users edit a post, the original post will be moved to a special table for storage. Each revision will be sorted by date and available for viewing.
    
    In addition, Moderators and Admins can disable/enable this system when they edit the any message, thus reducing the load on database when revision is not required.
    
    
14. High performance, dynamic sorting system:
    
    Users are not bound to order messages by time only. They can also use # of replies, # of views, post ratings, show only polls, and show only FAQ's to sort messages. This dynamic message sorting is purely stored procedure based instead of slow in-line SQL based. <screen shot>
    
    
    
15. WYSIWYG Editor (compatible with IE and Firefox):
    
    WYSIWYG Editor for both major browsers . Your users will be able to edit messages without using clunky tags in both Major Browsers (IE6+ and Mozilla Firefox), and will be able to see the final result of their message right away!
    
    
    
16. Built-in support for International User Interface/Date Time Format/Character-set:
    
    UI text strings are managed in a single language file for easy maintenance and customization. You only need to translate one file to make the forum support your preferred language!
    
    International Date Time option can be configured to support all different time formats with a few built-in parameters. For example, you can even display: "On Jan 14th, '02 at 2:30:20 PM".
    
    The default installation uses UTF-8 as the forum character-set, which supports virtually all of the languages on the planet.
    
    Best of all, you can now install multiple language interfaces for your members to choose from! (new in version 2)
    
    
    
17. Ultra-fast Online user tracking system:
    
    Tracks all your online members with one mouse click! You can easily find out who is doing what at what time on your forum. This tracking system not only displays online users on the forum home page, but also shows you the active members in each forum and topic (you will be able to see who is viewing the same topic as you are).
    
    Want more privacy? Sure, you can go into your profile and hide yourself from this tracking system! <screen shot>
    
    
    
18. Easy to understand forum permission for your guests, members, moderators and Private Members:
    
    ASPPlayground.NET forum supports 5 different levels of forum permissions, which are:
    
    
    1. No Access
    2. Read-only
    3. Reply
    4. Post
    5. Post & Reply

    You can set these permissions for your guests, members, and moderators separately (default user groups). Each default user group can even has different sub permissions for post rating, create/take polls, upload (file size + file extension), and post deletion (delete thread/delete reply). By default, your forum moderators have the highest permission (post & reply) in the forum.
    
    More over, ASPPlayground.NET supports the concept of private forums, which will be hidden from non-members. As an Admin, you will have the ability to set up your private user/private user groups easily from the admin panel. <screen shot>
    
    Group based permission (new in version 2) can also be turned on for each forum if you need detailed membership permission management!
    
    
    

19. Fully Moderated Posts:
    
    ASPPlayground.NET supports the concept of post moderation. Admin can enable post moderation on a per forum basis that will allow Admins and Moderators to screen each post before the post appears on the message list. Unmoderated posts are completely hidden from the list, and will not turn up in the search result. <screen shot 1 (member view)   screen shot 2 (admin view)>
    

When you're a small business owner, you need maximum value with minimal investment. That's exactly what this forum is. The forum is exceptionally written, amazingly intuitive and highly customizable. Your ROI will easily surpass the low cost of this fantastic product on positive feedback alone! Customer service is great and I couldn't be happier. Greg Janecka President & Founder Mortgage Subservicing, Inc. When looking for a replacement forum solution, I wanted something that was secure, fast, easily modified and well supported. ASPPlayground fitted the bill perfectly. I have been watching development of ASPPlayground from the days it was first provided as a free asp/frames based solution, to the Commercial SQL version it has now become. You will not find better value for money anywhere else for this type of forum, even using free forums. Support has been superb and adding of new features has been done in a professional and thoughtful manner. No tacky performance degrading add-ons here! The use of this forum software has been a valuable addition and improvement to our online community. Thank you Samuel! Regards, Spooky www.FrontpageWebmaster.com About 3 months ago I switched to a new hosting provider and they recommended I consider replacing my current Message board with an ASP Playground forum, so I looked. When I was using my forum I felt that out of the box it was limited. Yeah you could add stuff on, but something about me having to go into the code and make all these mods didn't sit well with me. So, I checked out ASP Playground and it had everything I wanted, Private Messages, Email Validation, Sticky Topic, Banning ability and much more. These all seem to be very common features needed to run a board right? Well, with the other I had YOU have to add them! I can't remember how many times the guy who wrote the MOD for my last forum left something out or wasn't clear and it broke my board. With ASP Playground you almost can't go wrong, and I am not just saying that. Samuel runs an outstanding support forum for his customers. Any time I have asked a question he gets a response to me in minutes, not hours or days. Although I havn't been with ASP Playground long enough to go through a upgrade, I can only imagine how easy it will be. One addition that I would like to see to the software is a Chat component, but it isn't a necessary. If you are trying to pick a forum to use on your site, don't look any further than ASP Playground. You would be waisting your time if you did. For the $97.00, or whatever the cost of the commercial license is, it is well worth it. My time is much more valuable to me and I would assume yours is as well. Thanks again Samuel. Sean Delaney http://www.miami-hurricanes.com Dactrung.com is a non-profit website, whose sole purpose is to provide a political-free environment to those who can read and write Vietnamese. Its forum for discussing all aspects of society, culture, family, arts, music, poetry, sports, Information Technology to down-to-earth topics such as Joke of the Day, What's up with a member's life, etc. Thanks to advanced and secured technology such as ASP Playground.NET so that our members can share their ideas, emotions and concerns from anywhere in the world. Trung Dactrung.com Your software is some of the best written around. I find after I learn my way around it’s easy to use. And works great! I will recommend it for any of my clients looking for forum software. Chris Read I wanted a forum for my hobby. I am not an IT expert and thought installing and maintaining top of the range forum software would be beyond the capabilities of a hobbyist. How wrong I was! ASPPlayground is easy to install and easy to run. If I don't understand something I use the support forum where experienced users and the support team are happy to explain in an understandable way. Thank you ASPPlayground for bringing antique bottle collectors from every corner of the earth together on our forum! Roger Antique-Bottles.Net

We stand behind each feature we listed, period. You don't need to rely on any unsupported "mods" to make your forum work better. You don't need to spend your precious time installing a mediocre "mod" just to find out it will not be compatible with the next small upgrade of the core application. Most "mods" in other software are not coded with the same standards and very often they are the culprits of serious performance and security problems.

Have you realized how much money you can save just for installing and running ASPPlayground.NET SQL Forum? Many people out there spent countless hours to modify some free scripts just to find out ASPPlayground.NET has everything better than their forums. They failed to realize one simple concept => Time equals Money. The standard rate for a developer is about 50 dollars an hour, and do you really think that you can spend less than 4 hours to customize a mediocre application to make it as powerful as ASPPlayground.NET SQL Forum?

ASPPlayground.NET team corresponds with our clients, and has put in most, if not all, requested features into version upgrades during the past 4 months since the first release. Our feature set is by far the most complete, fully supported, and the most flexible one you can find on the Internet.

Each of the feature can be turned on or off depending on how you want your forum to work, not because whether or not the features will have impact on your server's performance. "Features" will only turn into "benefits" when they are designed with performance and flexibility in mind.

If you are ready to pick up your own copy of this ultimate ASP.NET SQL Forum Software, you can click here to order your ASPPlayground.NET SQL Forum now (as low as $237)

Extraordinary, Proven Performance and Scalability

You don't want your site (forum) to break because of the improper design of an application, do you?

Forum software usually runs in the same process as your other programs you installed on your site. Once the performance of a poorly designed forum software starts deteriorating (more members, more messages, more active users => it is not uncommon for business sites, sometimes even on personal sites), your entire site goes down to toilet.

When this happens, you will either be forced to change your hosting plan, or you will be asked to remove the forum software entirely due to performance problems by your ISP. You end up paying more for something you did not expect.

ASPPlayground.NET SQL Forum Software has been designed from scratch to cope with these problems and to grow with your site. Our load-independent database accessing algorithms produce exactly the same performance whether there are 10 active users, 100 active users, or 450+ active users on your site.

Performance, performance, performance! We had the most active Snitz site of any I had seen (250-400 concurrent users in normal use, over 3 million page views a month in the forums alone), ran it on a dedicated web server AND dedicated database server and it just dragged. Page loads were INTERMINABLE. Users were leaving us. We used it for a year, so we really did try to make it work and were reluctant to dump it. Yet we installed ASP-PGD and were up and running in less than a week with a single programmer working on it. We *converted* existing Snitz posts and added new features during this time, too. Forum downtime: 1 day. This app ROCKS in performance due to the smart design: it uses stored procedures and CLIENT-SIDE UBB-code message parsing, none of that looping "Instr" and "Split" stuff you find in Snitz and other forums just to turn an ascii emoticon into a gif. Our boards now deliver pages in less than a second. Where Snitz uses spaghetti-fied, SQL-loaded code in dozens of bloated ASP files, ASP-PGD code is SQL-less (stored procs), succinct and easy to follow. Modifications are a breeze, due to the quality design. It's also "pretty", and the support is great. The company is very open to modification suggestions and you get the source code (obviously, it's in ASP.NET). You WON'T find a better forum out there for ASP.NET. I'd be willing to bet you'd be hard pressed to find a better one, regardless of platform, period. Someone aptly said this forum is the "KING" -- it really is, YOU just don't know it yet... check it out! Gene Grant CEO, Ovusoft, LLC We do about 4000 posts per day and receive enormous traffic. We do use 3 front end load balanced servers but our backend dual xeon proc DB barely breaks a sweat. We use the 3 front end's for redundnancy. I'm not sure what sort of processor usage we would see on them running the entire application and db on one server but overall the scalability of aspg is better than VB IMHO. We have 150,000 registered members at RCU and grow about 6000+ per month. (~5000 active users, 4.5 million+ posts) Marc RCUniverse.com We do have more than 17,000+ posts per day and roughly 0.25 million pages a day. We do see 1250 different ip's in last 20 min and more than thousand connections/sec. We all do that with only single cpu 3 Ghz xeon server (web) and a dual cpu Opteron 240 server (db). Search is the key feature of this forum. You can find every word in more than 2 million post below a second. IMHO if your forum has less traffic than ours you can solve problem like us or more price wise only one Dual Opteron 248 server are enough for everything. (10 million+ posts) Gun Donanim Haber I converted over to ASPPG. We have 42138 users and over 230000 posts. Everything went smooth as glass. We have a dual AMD 1800+ with 2 GB RAM running between 80-100% CPU usage with my previous service (VERY SLOW), after the switch to ASPPG I have not seen the usage go above 20%. It is like going from a bicycle to Porsche! I was able to integrate right into my current membership system and everything! I still can’t get over how fast it is running. Thanks again. Lance Ramsay Webmaster http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/Default.aspx

In fact, if you now go to Gene's site, you will see about 700+ active users posting over 10,000 messages per day. His forum now has more than 1.2 million posts. Everything is hosted on a SHARED SQL Server.

What's the muscle behind ASPPlayground.NET's extraordinary performance?

1. Special Caching Algorithms:
   
   Database access is the slowest part of an ASP.NET application. When you try to grab something from the database, ASP.NET has to create an object to connect to the database and then sends SQL commands to the database. This is a relatively VERY SLOW operation.
   
   ASPPlayground.NET utilizes a small amount of web server's memory to cache very frequently accessed data (not object), and thus speeds up data retrieval to the maximal extent (RAM is way faster than Hard Disk). Not only does this caching mechanism eliminate the time to access database again and again, but it also minimizes the data transfer over the relatively busy network between your web server and database server (ethernet).
   
   ASPPlayground.NET Forum Software caches whatever is suitable for caching, not more, not less. This is our number one secret in maximizing the forum software response and minimizing the server load.
   
   Minimal unnecessary database-web server round trip = Maximal ASP.NET application performance.
   
   
2. Pure Stored Procedure Operations:
   
   Caching is not suitable for all different kinds of operations. Manually creating data access object is very often the only solution for certain tasks. Even when data access is inevitable, there is still a right way to make sure data access won't produce too much overhead that causes various problems in the long run (when your site becomes popular).
   
   ASPPlayground.NET is built with SQL 2000 database users in mind. If you are already using SQL 2000, why would you not want to utilize the power of it? Stored Procedure is the only right way for data access if you are using SQL 2000.
   
   What exactly are the benefits of using Stored Procedures in ASPPlayground.NET?
   
   
   
   • Capable of executing multiple SQL queries and return multiple recordsets in one database call (very fast)
     
     With other ASP.NET forums, very often you will need to execute more than 15-20 inline SQL queries (sometimes even more) in one page. However, with ASPPlayground.NET, each page runs with less than 4 stored procedure queries (sometimes even less). Executing one SQL query (regardless of type) is already pretty resource expensive; if you need more than 15 or more per page, your server will only be stressed out as your site grows - AND THIS IS UNNECESSARY for a SQL 2000 user like you!
     
     
   • Capable of executing business logics inside SQL Server itself
     
     ASP.NET is sometimes not the fastest place to build your own application (business) logics, especially when your logics require data output from your database. ASPPlayground.NET uses stored procedures to retrieve necessary values from database, perform business logics, and returns only required info to the ASP.NET pages ALL INSIDE SQL SERVER ITSELF.
     
     Thus, your web server will be freed from having to interpret your application logics over and over again, and will have the extra CPU time to perform all the suitable tasks like HTML string writing, simple form input validation, etc.
     
     
   • Compiled, cached execution plans for better performance
     
     SQL Server has the ability to run a stored procedure once, and then compile it and cache the execution plan for the stored procedure in SQL Server's memory (RAM). With inline-SQL from ASP.NET pages, SQL Server will not be able to do any of the above and thus will have to do the same thing over and over again. ASPPlayground.NET always uses Compiled stored procedures and Cached execution plans which in turn drastically enhances the performance of the entire application.
     
     
   • Secure, not prone to SQL injection attack
     
     Inline-SQL from ASP.NET pages is prone to SQL query manipulation which always leads to severe security problems. With Stored Procedure, however, every parameter you pass to SQL Server is strongly typed, and thus, it is impossible to manipulate any query with malformed user inputs. ASPPlayground.NET utilizes stored procedures not only for performance, but also to provide the highest level of security for your forum community.
3. Special Paging Algorithms:
   
   Paging refers to presenting the data as a number of pages showing X number of records per page. This technique is required for listing message subjects in a forum software. However, as your community grows, your message count grows as well which causes BIG problems for forum software that use the mediocre ADO.NET paging method.
   
   ADO.NET paging, while is super easy to use, does not scale at all due to the nature of this method. ADO.NET paging pulls back ALL records that fit a special criteria and display only the records in the desired page.
   
   For example, if you set your forum to display 20 messages per page, and you have 10,000 messages stored in a particular forum => you will be asking your database to send the entire 10,000 messages to your web server just for displaying the 20 messages! (huge performance hit on both web server and SQL server + huge unnecessary traffic between web server and SQL Server). Sadly, almost all ASP.NET forums out there use this method even for SQL Server backend.
   
   ASPPlayground.NET SQL Forum Software features super powerful load-independent paging algorithms that guarantees highest performance regardless of how many messages you have in a forum and how many active users your forum hosts. With our paging algorithms, SQL Server only sends 20 messages to the web server (ASP.NET pages) if you only want 20 messages per page.
   
   What's even more is that our paging method does not even require Temporary Table to be built inside SQL Server. OURS IS NOT EVEN THE SAME THING YOU FIND EVERYWHERE ON THE NET FOR SQL SERVER PAGING.
   
   ASPPlayground.NET offers two entirely different paging stored procedures for you to choose from. You can use Admin panel to change the stored procedure on a per-forum basis. What this means is that you can choose the best performing paging method for a specific forum.
   
   With ASPPlayground.NET, YOU are in control.
   
   
4. Fine-grained Includes, Clean ASP Files:
   
   ASPPlayground.NET SQL Forum Software utilizes Stored Procedures to access the database for most of the important tasks, and use in-line SQL only for tasks where Stored Procedures is not feasible or tasks that does not execute frequently.
   
   Further more, all of the ASP-specific functions in ASPPlayground.NET are defined in many small, function specific include files. This not only enhances code reuse and management, but also speeds up the ASP performance.
   
   This "Include" strategy alone is a big plus for those who wish to customize the ASP codes because you will never need to worry about messing up the core of the application due to our clean and ultra short ASP files (3-5 times smaller than other ASP forum software)!
   
   

Clean code!! Snitz, while it's a good free product, has alot of bad poorly written code. They seem to have the mentality to throw everything into every file instead of doing it once and using an include. Performance was another big area of improvment (in ASPPlayground.NET), the load on my server is almost non-existent now. Michael Brown http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum ASP Playground Forum SQL is the best forum application I have found so that is written in ASP. Its performance is great even in the very busy forums. The code, it is written in, is very easy to follow if you ever need to customize it for your needs. They have the best support service I have ever encountred in the software industry. Very reliable and fast to answer your questions. I would recommend it to anyone who is concerned with performance, reliability, support, and price. Saud Alasfoor We went from a dedicated web host and dedicated SQL Server with Snitz (at 100% utilization on both) to a dedicated web server and shared SQL Server with ASPPGD, doubled our users, and are no where near approaching 100% processor utilization. Our webhost loves it and recommends it to anyone looking for such software. Gene Grant CEO, Ovusoft, LLC http://www.ovusoft.com/forum We are very impressed with the speed of your software! Dan Baxter http://dealcatcher.com/



5. Leverage the client browser capability:
   
   If we just try to squeeze out the last bit of performance from your web server and SQL server, then feel free put us out of business now!
   
   With ASPPlayground.NET, you are no longer using one or two machines to run your forum for you. You will be able to utilize virtually hundreds of SUPER POWERFUL CPU's (some even more powerful than your own server) to generate most of the User Interface!
   
   What this all means is that we off-load a lot of resource expensive user interface generation functions to your members' browsers. This includes:
   
   
   
   
   • Threaded interface sorting and tree expanding/collapsing (another huge performance gain - requires only one call to the database - NO ITERATIONS REQUIRED)
     
     
   • Member title and ranking (star representation, custom titles)
     
     
   • Message status (new, locked, hot topics)
     
     

   In most cases, your web server will only be required to send raw data to the browsers without having to spend any precious CPU time to format and produce HTML! What can be faster than this powerful design?

 

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Unlimited Customizability WITHOUT Extra Charge

You are probably not familiar with the term "Developer's License". This term generally refers to the extra money (usually 4-8 times of the regular license cost) you will need to pay in order to modify the software to suit your (site's) needs.

Many ASP forum software companies use the following 2 strategies:

1. Compile the application core as binary dll(s). Unless you are willing to pay for source code, you just don't have any control with the software.
2. States in the license agreement that developer's license is required. You are at risk that your license would be revoked, even if all you want to do is trying to fix a unbearable bug on your own.

With ASPPlayground.NET, you just don't need to worry about anything like those above. With one simple license, the entire codes (ASP.NET, T-SQL Stored Procedures) are yours to modify. Whether you want to change some message display logics, or even include additional fields in the user table, IT IS ENTIRELY UP TO YOU. We won't ask you to pay anything more than the initial license fee.

So, how easy is it to customize the ASPPlayground.NET forum software once you have the needs to do so? Answer: Extremely easy. You may have already noticed that many of our clients state that the code of ASPPlayground.NET is easy to follow. And this is exactly the result of our smart and clean design!

I must say you have done an excellent job with the forum software and I have found it to be one of the most easily configurable "pre-packaged" applications which I have used. Even the SQL setup was a breeze! Best Regards JP http://www.digitaljuice.com/ I just felt I needed to thank you for a fantastic product. The installation was very slick and easy, and the ability to go in and modify readable (!) code is a god send. Once again, MANY THANKS! Peter Eccles Head of Development Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc http://www.worldoil.com/

Don't want to touch the code for customization? No problem. The following are the key built-in features in the admin panel to allow even easier customization without you having to touch the ASP.NET code at all:

1. Dynamic Header and Footer: You can copy and paste your site's header and footer (HTML and pure text) into a text box and save them on database. This is very powerful because you don't even have to worry about overwriting anything after each upgrades.
   
   
2. Dynamic CSS: You can edit CSS definitions, add CSS definitions, and remove CSS definitions all in the Admin Panel. You can also specify different definitions for a particular CSS class for Mozilla 4 / 5 browsers. In other words, you can have one CSS file for Netscape and one for IE. By default we install a few CSS definitions for you to play with, and once you register your copy of the software we have a very detailed CSS tutorial + examples available for you in our private support forum!
   
   
3. Netscape 4 body tag attributes: Because of the poor CSS support in Netscape 4.X versions, some of the CSS definitions can't be recognized in Netscape 4.X browsers. Don't worry, you can also edit the attributes in Admin Panel! Just one line of HTML and you are all set!
   
   
4. Color Schemer: Specify 5 different colors for your forum in Admin Panel! With only 5 simple colors of your choice, your forum will look totally different from others! You can save as many schemes as you want and decide later which matches best with your site design.
   
   
5. International Language and Date Format: Every single interface text string is defined in one language file. To translate your board into languages other than English, all you need to do is translate this particular file. You also want to display you preferred DateTime format? No problem. We have a very special date formatting tool inside our Admin Panel to help you with this. All you need to do is write down a simple line of text with a few parameters (detailed information available inside the admin panel), and our software will format all the interface Date Time values accordingly.
   
   
6. Customizable E-mail Messages: Our forum software use e-mail for 6 different tasks. You as the Admin can configure how you want those 6 e-mails to read right inside our Admin Panel. Each of the "Server Messages" (this is how we call them) comes with a few parameters (code snippets, for example, #login# and #password# for the "lost password" server message), and all you need to do is insert those parameters into each of your own "Server Message" and hit "save".
   
   
7. Updated! Site Integration Package: the ultimate tools to integrate the forum content (login/registration, messages, member information, etc.) with your site!! You don't need to know the underlying table structures, permission settings, table relations nor will you need to write complicated inline-SQL in order to extract messages/member info out of the software! All you need to do is use our Site Integration Package on your pages where you want forum information to appear, and that's it!!

What's more is that our forum software has the capability to integrate with your own existing user database + your own registration system. It works like the following:

1. In the admin panel there is a function called "fast member import". Importing thousands of your existing users only takes a fraction of a second. Want to use your existing registration routine? No problem, just add an extra call to our "spRegister" stored procedure in your registration routine and your new members will be automatically inserted into our user table.
   
   
2. Plus, we can also auto-login your users if you set a cookie in your own login script. Our software will retrieve the values from the cookie and login the member when he reaches your ASPPlayground.NET forum.
   
   
3. Of course, detailed tutorials are available in our support forums for you once you become a registered customer of our software.
   

We had many changes that needed to be made to meet our specific needs and quite frankly it was much easier thanwe anticipated and we were able to get the forum online sooner than expected. The software has saved us hours of development time. Thank you for such a great product! Wimberly PinkSuccess, Inc. Samuel: I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know we are VERY pleased with the ASPPlaygroung.NET forum software! It was easy to install, and the features it provides and the ability to customize and integrate it with the rest of our site are wonderful. Thanks for putting together a great product! ... Warren Williams Webmaster, Mississippi Canoe and Kayak Club www.mspaddle.org One of the best features I have seen is the dynamic CSS that is available, being able to change the look and feel on the fly is amazing! Dewyatt Stanfield Hi Samuel, just wanted to let you know everything is running great over at DealCatcher.com. We upgraded to SP3 last week. We've tweaked it quite a bit. All the javascript is serverside, and we also have keyword code that replaces about 600 affiliated stores with tracking URLS. The forums are also shared by Techbargains.com. We developed a way to map postings to both forums. It's pretty cool. We havn't noticed any slow down. Everything is running much better then Snitz. We've also removed the code to track guest sessions. This allows the search engines to index the forums and crawl the site. Between DealCatcher and Techbargains the forums are seeing about 15,000 visitors everyday. I just wanted to say keep up the great work and we look forward to the new versions. Send me your mailing address and we will send you out a DealCatcher.com t-shirt. Thanks, Dan Baxter DealCatcher.com .. Also, I just want you to know that your software is fantastic. It is easy to use, easy to understand and modify, and it just plain works. Thanks for everything! Sam Wettling TCEA.org

The following are a few sites that integrates their own registration systems with our forum software for unified user management:

• DevBuzz.com
• myITForum.com
• sober24.com
• Hunting.net
• Ovusoft.com

Do you want this extra flexibility for customization? Do you want to keep the cost as low as possible? If you answer "yes" to both questions, click here to order your ASPPlayground.NET SQL Forum now, and customize and integrate this powerful software into your site today!

Unrivaled, Quick, and Friendly Support

ASPPlayground.NET forum software will not be complete without our Superior Customer Support. We consider Customer Support Services to be the "top priority" of our business. It is not merely a claim, but a continued effort that has made none of our clients who do business with us without a smile in the end:

"I wish to strongly commend ASPPlayground, and in particular, Samuel Chou, for his tremendous level of support these past few weeks since ActiveHost.com recommended your product. Not only was their product recommendation excellent, but the level of service has been nothing short of outstanding. I ran into a few minor problems during setup, which either Samuel quickly solved/resolved, or on which he was able to point me in the direction to get it solved (such as directory permissions or dba logins). I am a software developer myself, so I know how critical good support is and how uncommon it is to receive it. I will strongly recommend both this person and company based on these initial experiences and only wish more companies had the same ethic." .... Everything has been running GREAT and the feedback has really been FANTASTIC on the BB. Ross Goldberg Threshold Trading Samuel, You rule! You are literally the best supported software I've ever used and the most responsive to good feature requests. That is unfortunately a rare thing these days. If you ever need a glowing reference. Send them to me. Seriously. Marc RCUniverse.com I just wanted to thank you for helping us to get "The Best of the Web" again this year from Forbes.Com. They realy took notice of you board we customized for our Membership. I realize our category of "Alcoholism" has limited competition for this honor; however, Forbes rarely gives this out to the same site twice and we did win it last year. Thanks again. http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=5682 Greg Wright, CEO Sober24.com Q: What is the thing you like the most in ASPPlayground? A: I can't answer just one thing here. I have already touched on a few of the features but if I HAD to narrow it down to one thing it would be Samuel. Yes, the actual creator of the product is my favorite thing. Not only is he a wonderful coder but also strives to add feature after feature in very timely updates and is always willing to help out. This is the best support for a 99.00 product I have EVER received. My price quote may or may not be what the going rate is for the personal edition but even at $150.00 it is a steal. If you compare this product to even free ASP boards, I would STILL say it was better, even having to spend the cash. Dewyatt Stanfield Thanks for your reply. This is most reassuring. May I also say that Tarie (the co owner of this forum) and I are so pleased that you have been so helpful. This is not something we have experienced with the designers with our old software. Regards, Carolyn Samuel, Thank you. As always, your customer service is as impressive as your software. By the way...any idea what the largest customer base you have using your product? For your information, we have over 25,000 members and the software runs flawlessly. Jeff Bolton PinkSuccess, Inc. Thanks, Samuel. You have been very responsive and helpful over these past months as I set this forum in motion. Thanks. Don (naccc.org) By the way, I really like this forum. After getting the kinks worked out in IIS, it has been a dream to configure. I am working on the template this weekend for the header and footer in dreamweaver. Thanks for all the help Shad Springer Your support is top notch, I wish more software companies gave this level of support. Michael Brown MikePortnoy.com (your support) is timely and helpful, and I like the forum alot. Ahnalira OurLaughingPlace.com Once again thanks for your dedication and support. I made the right decision to go with ASPPlayground.net! Derek Mitchell DEVBUZZ.COM, Inc. http://www.devbuzz.com Samuel, Thanks, It is a pleasure doing business with you. Respectfully, Jim Andrews (from the U.S. CNSL-FORCE) Thanks for your help..our forums are looking great now IMO...and we're getting compliments. Darren Hedberg Maximumsled.com ... Of all the choices we had for forums software, I am glad we went with ASPPlayground. Thanks for all your help! Larry A. Kaduce Maximumsled.com the main reason I purchased your script was your quick replies at all sorts of hours. Thank you for making my life a little less stressful and giving me some knowledge and a new toy to play with for awhile. Kevin Carney I have been trying different ASP forums for over 2 years ago and have finally found one that suits my needs along with both features and performance. I was a little hesitant to play the $97, but it was well worth it. The performance and security of this software is second to none. Also their support is outstanding and the development team is always welcome to your suggestions. Mike G. http://www.thesouthtown.com .... I do want to underline what a great support that was for our community and I want to thank again Samuel and Aspplayground.net for such a great service. Top quality, absolutely. I can really say AspPlayground.net is worth every single penny you spend on it. I would buy it again without any doubt. Claudio Marinangeli http://www.ilquen.it

 

User Friendly & Specially Designed For Your Business

ASPPlayground.NET SQL Forum Software has been refined and redesigned to meet the needs of the most demanding communities on the Net. We have been working continuously with our clients so we know what you will and will not need for a forum application.

We left out most of the unnecessary things and added EVERY GOOD FEATURE that our clients suggested to us -- We have got everything you will possibly need for your online community in this CLEAN software package. Anything that will potentially hinder your forum's performance has been deliberately left out of our package.

In short, we do what we are supposed to do to serve you, and we do not pretend to be everything for you. This forum software is unlike anything you will find anywhere else.

For merely $237 for non-profit sites and $297 for commercial sites, you really cannot save more. Run your online community with us, and you will never have to

• spend extra money just for running a busier community (upgrade to higher hosting plans due to performance problems, etc).
• spend extra money for developer's license.
• spend precious time just for adding some missing features in the core package (no mods necessary).
• spend extra, unnecessary time just for fixing the software due to poorly written code.

Remember, TIME EQUALS MONEY!

Within the next 5 minutes, you could be using this powerful software to build your online community and eliminating any performance related, feature related problems! Simply place your order, and within seconds our service provider will automatically e-mail you the download instructions and unlock code you need to get started using ASPPlayground.NET SQL Forum Software immediately!

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