.NET Integration to ASP site, DB sharing

Hi there,

Got a couple of questions:

1) Can components of this forum be integrated into a website?  For example, a news story on the main website could become a Thread of its own, with the ability for people to comment and chat about it.  So, if the user is logged in, they will see some of the basic forum functionality (reply, post new comment, smilies), which is integrated into the design of the main site.  The registration and log in components are also very important in regards to this as well.  Can we take them and put them anywhere on the main site?

2) Following on from the above question, can components of the .NET software be integrated onto a classic ASP page?

3) Can the database be shared between multiple instances?  On the one server we're going to have multiple sites, each of which is going to require its own license.  Can each of these instances look at the same database?  And if so, can we identify between the different site's data sets?  Minimum we require is the membership database to be shared, is this possible?

4) Source code.  I am prepared to customise the software, hopefully not going to have to, but you never know.  What do you supply in terms of source code, db schema, UML?

Kind Regards

Kitster

Hi,

1. We do support integration for Registration and Login. See here. For comment functionality, You will need to code this part, as we do not have a mechanism to extract messages and allow for posting
2. We have an ASP version of the software, so you don't need the .NET version
3. Yes, as long as each instance uses a different database user to create its db forum objects and to access the forum db (in the connection string). Membership sharing is possible through the document I provide in point one where you designate one member table as the base and the other member tables still need duplicate data in order to work.
   
4. Source code is available, db schema is available in a db creation SQL script where you can see all the details of the db.
   

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