Leon Amarant

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XMLMessageBoard.Net contains everything you need to create an XML based message board with form validation and CAPTCHA. This is a base application that only asks for two fields (NAME and COMMENT) and is meant to be a starting point for you to create a more robust app.

Features:

• Programmed in ASP.NET (VB)
• No database programming required
• Works right out of the gates
• Uses Ajax, so no page refresh
• Built-in CAPTCHA to prevent robotic infiltration
• Uses simple form validation
• Progress Bar displays upon submission
• Sorts data in XML file by Date in descending order
• Encodes form data into XML friendly format
• uses CSS to make it look purrty
• FREE FREE FREE FREE

In order to run XMLMessageBoard as-is, your site NEEDS to be Ajax enabled. Don’t know what that means? Then click here.

I’m providing this code for free because it took me a little while to work through some issues and I really couldn’t find a simple XML based message board anywhere online. And, since I like you, I figured I’d save you some time.

To get this to work, do this:

• Download the zip file
• Unzip it into a local directory
• Fire up Visual Interdev
• Select “Open Web Site”
• Open the folder
• Press F5
• Tada!

Special thanks to this guy for providing the CAPTCHA stuff. Thanks buddy!

XMLMessageBoard is provided without any warranty whatsoever…and I don’t promise to support it either. In any case, it’s pretty easy and if you take a second to look at the code you’ll be able to figure it all out. If you do use it though, it would be nice of you to give me the appropriate props. Happy Coding!

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