Hi,
I am creating a chat application using ASP.Net and C#.

The chat room has frames...and one frame is chat box ---which shows all the messages.. To keep chat box keep collecting the messages and showing it... a meta tag of refresh (may be 2 secs. or so ) is required. This mechanism works fine.

But i need to know and implement of some other mechanism by which the chat box can keep listening and collecting, showing the messages. As the refresh method looks bad refreshing the frame again an again showing that blue progress bar in the browser...moreover i dont find it to be efficient in terms of performance.

I am using .Net remoting concept... but help can also be provided for web service or whatever you find suitable.

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Thanks in Advance .
Regards,

Uxi

Well, here's a possible idea...
You add a third frame that is not visible. This frame has the page that refreshes regularly and it updates the textarea in your messages frame which remains as a static (i.e. non-refreshing) page. So you don't see the refresh on the messages page, but it remains updated by this hidden frame. I don't think that this will solve your problem with the blue progress bar in the browser however. There's no way to avoid this if you are just building a simple application in asp.net (i.e. html). If you wanted more of an application feel you would probably need to write some kind of applet that runs in the browser and does it's own communications so the page that the applet sits on only loads once.

Alternatively, you could build this chat application in flash and let flash talk to a web service for message posting and retrieval. That would be a neat solution too.

Peter