Forums inside a current asp.net design?

I'm not new to web-design but I am new to web-development and frameworks.  I found this forum software when I decided to choose asp.net as my framework mainly because it's unofficially the industry standard and I prefer C#>ruby.
 
Now I already have a design for my site, is there any way to just include the forums and user panel(and the rest of the design?  Basically display the forums in your content area of your design.

I wasn't going to choose vbulletin/ipb as you have to include their footer/header etc.  I just want to include/show my forums in my design and nothing else.
Edit: I found these forums cause one of my friend uses them, this is basically what I'm trying to do. Show em in the design not having to modify and mimic my layout.

Hi Rukiri,
 
Our software uses Master Page but within the forum software (the software must be configured as an Web App), so you will have to copy and paste your design into the software's master page in order to achieve a consistent layout across your pages.
 
See this post about master page:
http://www.aspplayground....-m399461.aspx#template
 
Especially note the info regarding the Classic theme. This theme uses nested Master pages and the root is currently pointed to ~/Masterpage.master. You can add your design to this basically blank master page to achieve same layout as your site.

Thanks, now I currently have a user authentication system written is there available scripts to integrate it to aspplayground forum script? and show small bits of the users profile when it reads "Show avatar here: welcome back user! " ? 

Hi Rukiri,
 
The software comes with full support for Membership Provider of ASP.NET. Take a look at this article to see how to integrate with external (your own) membership system:
http://www.aspplayground....-database-m397994.aspx
 
Avatar support on the title block (the welcome line) is not currently available.

Hi Samuel
I have a site with masterpages as well, and I want to intergrate playground into that. But what I understand, is that forum is the "master" and others design have to be integrated with the forum ?
My site have a master page, and in the content placeholder I have many different features, and here I want to add playground as a feature.
That means that my site is the "master" and playground should act as a user control - how about that?
regards
Danish Freddy
 

In the forum software, we have the ability to use nested master page -> meaning you can modify our master page to refer to your site master page (with many content placeholders, with the forum appearing in one of them), without the need to add your content into the forum's file (e.g. master page).
 
Does this make any sense to you (nested master page)? if not, let me know.
 
By the way, this can be tricky to set up because to do so you will need to install the forum on the same application as your site, and for this to work you will have to merge web.config files between the forum and the site. This is why we do not recommend this setup.

Hi Samuel
Wonderfull answer. Just what I wanted to hear. I have been rather hooked on your Forum, and will buy and integrate in in my site (you will do that) as soon as v.4 is up running. There is no point to buy now as there will be some customazation.
Why is the trial v.3.9 i vb i expected c#
Thank you for quick answer
Danish Fred

The software is built with VB.NET, not C#.
 
By the way, I omitted an important part in my answer above -> you need to be able to install the software in the root of your site in order to make the scenario work because we reference ~/ extensively in the software.
 
Finally, I provide no guarantee that the scenario works. You will have to experiment it yourself because such setup is not supported because of the complexity involved as it really depends on how your site files are organized.