I am creating a chatroom that will be driven with flash on the clientside, but I want to use a socket server to send new messages to the users. I am on a shared webserver plan, so I might be limited in what HMS will let me do. How would I go about doing this? From the examples I have seen its basically an infinite while loop, but this could be taxing on resources. The socket server would be sending small xml documents to all connected clients, and keeping a log of activity.
The types of messages would be send
- user posts a new message to the room
- user has joined the room
- user has left the room
- user is typing ( similar to AIM )
- user has stopped typing

All I need to know is how to go about writting a socket server for this type of application.
I have found .NET examples for windows forms applications, but just not for asp.net
Any suggestions appreciated

A socket server is going to be the same regardless of whether the clients are ASP.NET, Winforms or Flash - isn't it?

That is what I am assuming. Thus far I am not sure if HMS will let me run it on a shared account though. I waiting to hear back from them on that right now