Nothing helps grow a community-based Web site than an easy-to-use chat room. In fact, the Internet is really a gigantic chat room, with millions of people sharing suspended chatting through the form of email or more lively chatter on a community site's chat application. This article looks at the fundamentals for creating a chat room application, presenting code to a simple chat application submitted by 4Guys reader Gordon C. in the earlier ASP Connections Programming Challenge Contest.
