The Anonymous Counseling chat is a open-source counseling chat.

The anonymous counseling chat project has been developed and open-sourced by NETlinQ and Klean as a secure and anonymous web-based chat solution.

It can be deployed for many purposes, but was originally developed to be used by a publicly funded teenage counselling hotline.

Contributions and enhancements are very welcome.

The chat-server is running as a Microsoft WCF-webservice, and the clients run, using javascript only (no installation of any third party software needed).

The solution is a Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 .sln file, and can be opened with any version of VS2010.

The code syntax is mostly C# and javascript.

If you wish, you can rename the namespace of the solution (currently named your.namespace.com)

If you choose to run a secure chat service (recommended), simply put a SSL-certificate on the website, and you are up and running.

Layout / Graphics can easily be updated, since the solution supports skinning and CSS.

The sites Default.aspx is a small form you can choose to use or not.

The solution requires Microsoft .net 4.0 platform (IIS7).

The anonymous counseling chat project is distributed as open source software under the MIT license, as described in the included MIT-LICENSE.txt file.

Copyright (c) 2011 John Resig, http://jquery.com/

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