Integrating ASP .NET (C#) with vBULLETIN

[bchawla]

Has it been done? How do you tell if the use ris logged in and as what username?

Any information is much appreciated.
thanks

[Shining Arcanine]

An ASP.NET copy of vBulletin would be nice.

Check this out:

http://asp.net/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?tabindex=1&ForumID=133

[Shadow Duelist]

It's so FAST O_O

[Wayne Luke]

Don't know whether it has been done or not... This is a question for vBulletin.org.

We do not have any plans to create an ASP.NET version of vBulletin nor to integrate it with ASP.NET services at this time.

[Shining Arcanine]

It's so FAST O_O

ASP.NET's Just in Time compiler and caching of Just in Time compiled executables probably help that. Not to mention page caching and the page's 5.14KB size after page compression.

The Jit compiler and executable caching are what give ASP.NET a significant edge over PHP and Zend Optimizer. I haven't seen any PHP + Zend Optimizer + MMCache comparsions to ASP.NET but it probably could beat that too. If it can't, static page caching could be easily turned on to change that. Although once software needs third party enhancements to beat other software in benchmarks there is a problem.

Don't know whether it has been done or not... This is a question for vBulletin.org.

We do not have any plans to create an ASP.NET version of vBulletin nor to integrate it with ASP.NET services at this time.

Does that mean that customers can't post requests here? It would be better to allow it so you can gauge customer demand.

[Ogden2k]

I'd buy an ASP version of vB. :)

[Shining Arcanine]

I'd buy an ASP version of vB. :)

I wouldn't. ASP is a scripting language that is 3 to 5 times slower than PHP and is obsolute. ASP.NET is a compiled framework which is much more faster and scalable than PHP.

[bchawla]

I think people have misunderstood me, so let me clarify:
I want to create a PORTAL using ASP .NET and keep vbULLETIN as-is.
All I want to do is see whether the user is logged in (presumably through cookies already set) and display their name. So the main question is, is it possible to read back the cookie? I keep hearing about this salt thing which I believe is only for PHP, so that is the issue I am having.!
Thanks for the helopthough.

[bchawla]

And for the record, I like vBULLETIN the way it is, so I would never ask for an ASp .NET/ASP version.

[Dean C]

An ASP.NET copy of vBulletin would be nice.

Check this out:

http://asp.net/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?tabindex=1&ForumID=133

Very interesting....

[Shining Arcanine]

ASP.NET should be capable of being written to verify cookies (it requires a connection to mysql through). You should ask about md5 and MySQL at asp.net through.

[Scott MacVicar]

I've had plans to write code to verify logins for a while.

At the moment I've only got Perl and Java since those I can write without any help.

I've got myself an ASP.NET book which I plan to learn soon and I've also got plans to do python.

[mattischvili]

I think people have misunderstood me, so let me clarify:
I want to create a PORTAL using ASP .NET and keep vbULLETIN as-is.
All I want to do is see whether the user is logged in (presumably through cookies already set) and display their name. So the main question is, is it possible to read back the cookie? I keep hearing about this salt thing which I believe is only for PHP, so that is the issue I am having.!
Thanks for the helopthough.

Just what I need as well! I am surprised that there is not more threads, answers about this. Maybe because this is an old thread before ASP.NET 2.0. It is powerful!

Yet, I want to keep using the vBulletin.

So I wonder, is it possible to integrate vBulletin into a ASP.NET 2.0 page (keeping the vBulletin as it is) ?

Thank you. Have a nice day...

[mfinc]

It's so FAST O_O
It is pretty fast 0_0 (x2)