Subject: ASP.NET and agsXMPP - please help!
Hello again.
I have been successfully writing test applications for the desktop, using VB.NET, which react to events (incoming messages) and display them on the screen. That works great for desktop applications, but what about web pages?
When it comes to ASP.NET, things are understandaby, more difficult. We have the whole "posting back" of pages to contend with. Yes, I can use the same VB.NET code to connect to my Wildfire server (login), but then, my web page has loaded, and that's that. The ".MessageGrabber.Add" statements, set at connection time, are pointless, since the page has loaded and isn't grabbing any messages or indeed doing anything else!
It may sound strange wanting to display messages "live" on a web page, but what I'm trying to provide for users is something they can access from their browser, to see IMs that people send in, "as it happens".
Is there *any* way of setting up a web page (in .net) which can handle agsXMPP events? A simple example would be displaying user messages on the web page as they come in. (And I want this part of the web page - not a separate Java or ActiveX control).
Or is ActiveX / Java applets the only way?
Thanks!
Owen
I have been successfully writing test applications for the desktop, using VB.NET, which react to events (incoming messages) and display them on the screen. That works great for desktop applications, but what about web pages?
When it comes to ASP.NET, things are understandaby, more difficult. We have the whole "posting back" of pages to contend with. Yes, I can use the same VB.NET code to connect to my Wildfire server (login), but then, my web page has loaded, and that's that. The ".MessageGrabber.Add" statements, set at connection time, are pointless, since the page has loaded and isn't grabbing any messages or indeed doing anything else!
It may sound strange wanting to display messages "live" on a web page, but what I'm trying to provide for users is something they can access from their browser, to see IMs that people send in, "as it happens".
Is there *any* way of setting up a web page (in .net) which can handle agsXMPP events? A simple example would be displaying user messages on the web page as they come in. (And I want this part of the web page - not a separate Java or ActiveX control).
Or is ActiveX / Java applets the only way?
Thanks!
Owen