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ASP.NET Hosting Review, Part 1

10/27/2010 By denis 0
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Join us for a series of posts describing our experiences with popular ASP.NET hosting services. This time we will visit DiscountAsp.Net - see why it can be a good match for smaller scale MonoX installations.
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Support for ASP.NET profiles in MonoX

10/04/2010 By khorvat 0
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We are proud to announce that MonoX now includes full support for ASP.NET profile infrastructure. All configuration changes are immediatelly visible in the front end profile-related Web parts, making it easy to include unlimited number of custom fields to the user's profile without any programming and without the need to recompile the solution.
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Getting up to speed with MonoX

09/28/2010 By denis 5
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We have received a lot of feedback during the past couple of days since the newest release of MonoX was made public. Here are a few tips on how to start working with the sample project and produce a working custom solution in a matter of minutes.
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MonoX in the Web App Gallery

09/24/2010 By denis 0
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MonoX has been included in the Microsoft's Windows Web App Gallery and can be installed with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Inclusion in the gallery means that millions of Windows users now have easier access to MonoX resources.
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Hosting multiple applications in MonoX

09/12/2010 By denis 4
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A simple solution that allows you to host unlimited number of ASP.NET applications from a single database and virtual directory.
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MonoX v3: Free ASP.NET CMS and Social Networking Platform

08/20/2010 By denis 0
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We have just published a new, completely redesigned release of MonoX ASP.NET CMS with full support for Social Networking features. MonoX is now completely free and comes with everything you need to build fully-featured social environments, including: user profiles, OpenID support, friendship modules, scalable multi-user blog engine with automatic anti-spam protection, photo albums, customizable group architecture with support for public and private groups, discussion boards, file galleries, support for activity streams (event logs), messaging, video conversion and sharing, wall and comments.
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Data access layer in MonoX

04/06/2010 By denis 0
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We received a lots of comments and questions regarding the data access layer in MonoX. Many of our new users never heard about LLBLGen Pro - an Object Relational Mapping tool of our choice, and they consider it as too exotic.

MonoX lets you choose the DAL generation tool that will be used in your portal projects. We used various ORMs in our projects (NHibernate, Subsonic, ...) but LLBLGen remains our favorite due to the richness of its features and the very high level of the support provided by its authors. Of course, we don't want to avoid LINQ - MonoX was concieved when LINQ was in the alpha stage, but we quickly started to adopt it. Essentially, LLBLGen still offers a richer set of features, but if you are in doubt, guys from Solutions Design recently developed Linq to LLBLGen - now you can use both technologies interchangeably.
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ASP.NET routing support in MonoX

04/06/2010 By denis 0
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Service Pack 1 for the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 introduced a number of important changes, including the ASP.NET routing engine. Although routing is traditionally associated with ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) framework, Microsoft decide to package the routing logic into the System.Web.Routing assembly and to release this assembly with SP1. This was a nice move, since it enabled us to easily integrate the routing technology into MonoX...
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MonoX declarative parameter binding

04/06/2010 By denis 0
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Declarative parameter binding is one of those small gems that will save you a lot of time that was usually spent of writing QueryString parameter retrieval code. We started for an idea that was described a long ago by a guy named Piers Williams on CodeProject. His article discusses a reflection/attribute based strategy for automatic population of instance fields and properties on an ASP.NET page from parameters supplied via properties of the Request object - GET-based Request.QueryString or POST-based Request.Form...
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Application Optimization in MonoX

04/06/2010 By denis 0
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Last month we've published an application optimization package - Web Application Optimizer (WAO) - with features that include HTTP compression, ViewState optimization and CSS/Javascript optimization. WAO significantly increases the response time for Web applications of all sizes, and, most importantly, there is no need to modify the source code of your applications!

The package works in very different application scenarios and we've got plenty of useful feedback from the first group of users. There has been a slight confusion related to the availability of WAO in our MonoX framework. I wanted to formally announce that  WAO is available by default in all versions of MonoX. It is easy to tell if the WAO is active by the absence of big ViewState data chunk from the page source.
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