Active Data Online Discussion Board is an advanced, n-tier, database-driven discussion board software for Microsoft asp.net 2.0.

Active Data Online Discussion Board is an advanced, n-tier, database-driven discussion board software for Microsoft asp.net 2.0.

The system is the first to integrate forums, blogs, statements, questions, events, polls, files and pictures seamlessly and sensibly.

Use Discussion Board to create large online communities, discussion groups, virtual offices, collaborative workspaces, customer support centers, question-and-answer sites, group calendars, file shares, picture galleries, social networks, and more.

The system requires an asp.net 2.0 capable Web server, an SMTP email server, and a relational database, either Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.

Key benefits

Why choose Active Data Online Discussion Board?
It is quite possibly the most comprehensive discussion board, forum, or bulletin board system on the market. It offers more than any other system, even artificial intelligence.
It is database neutral. It supports 5 different relational databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle 10g, PostgreSQL and MySQL. This means you won't be locked into a single database vendor.
It runs on Microsoft asp.net 2.0, which is the fastest and most secure Web application platform today.
Its architecture is clean, flexible and scalable. The separation of layers is evident from the fact that a forum can be rendered in several ways: the standard view, a picture gallery, a file server, a calendar and a blog. Its scalability owes much to a well designed data paging algorithm.
It is self contained. The system does not depend on any external web services or the like, which means there is no risk of your discussion board not working when some other server stops working.
It is fully localised, meaning the system can be translated and run in a language other than English.
It is a robust, cross browser application. The user interface is largely the same in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. There are no menus or editors driven by DHTML, or the like, that can fail to work in some environments.
It is fast. The system was designed from the ground up to be efficient.
It is user friendly.
It is search engine friendly. The crawlers of google, yahoo, msn, and others, can reach and index all publicly viewable content.
It offers strong anti-spam and anti-flooding measures, and tools for administering content and users.
It can integrate with another asp.net 2.0 system. By design, it can run either in its own application space or in a shared application space.
It offers several ways to authenticate and manage users, including a single sign-in solution for complex, multiple application environments.
It can be hosted on an inexpensive Web host. Since the system natively supports Microsoft Access and all files are put on the Web server instead of in the database, the minimum cost of running a Discussion Board is probably the lowest of its ilk. Of course, over time, as your site grows, you can switch over to a high-end database such as SQL Server or Oracle.
It offers three built-in ways to earn money whilst hosting a discussion board: paid topics, forum subscriptions and key-phrase advertisements. What's more, its HTML plugin architecture makes embedding google adsense ads simple.

Requirements:

· Internet or intranet domain
· Internet Information Server with Microsoft .net framework version 2.0 or version 3.0 installed and asp.net ajax 1.0 extensions installed
· Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or 2005, Oracle 10g Release 10.2, MySQL 5.0, PostgreSQL 8.2, or Microsoft Access (.MDB file provided)
· SMTP email server
· Read/Write access to a part of the server file system in addition to asp.net's App_Data folder
· Standard Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Opera, or FireFox