Hi Gonzalo,
There are a few tutorials describing how to develop MonoX Web parts:
http://www.mono-software.com/blog/post/Mono/93/Building-a-custom-Web-part/
http://www.mono-software.com/blog/post/Mono/108/Integrating-Twitter-with-an-ASP-NET-site/
This topic is also covered in the user manual.
Hoever, it seems that you got stuck with opening a sample solution that is intended to serve as a skeleton for your custom projects, as it included basic references and minimal folder hierarchy. You can find the sample project in the "/MonoX/Samples/Solution". To start using the sample project you need to copy the "ProjectName.sln" and "Portal.csproj" to the root of your MonoX installation. It should not try to install anything - these are plain and simple VS project and solution files.
Again, we might solve this quickly via TeamViewer, let me know if that would work. Additionally, one of my colleagues is finishing a tutorial on this topic, it will be published in a day or so.

Hi Denis,

No problems with opening the solution. I had found a post you did before about copying the files so I already new that.
However, (I checked again) when I run the website from inside Visual Studio it does try to install. It shows me the privileges configuration report, the license agreement, the database configuragion page and so on. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm opening the solution from inside a different folder that the one we configured for IIS last week. Could it be? I'll open from the IIS folder just to check.

Thanks for the links I'll check them later. I have found the "Portal Development" section in the user manual so I'm checking it. I'm more interested in learning about the develoment process with MonoX and It seems I can find that information there.
I appreciate your interest in helping via TeamViewer but I don't want to waste your time without trying to do things by myself first.
Thanks,

Gonzalo

Hi Gonzalo,
The initiation of the installation process depends on the "InstalationDone" property in the web.config file. If this is set to false, the installation will be started. In your case the installation finished properly, as you were able to browse through the sample portal pages. Please try to run it through IIS - you can alway attach VS to the w3wp.exe process for debugging purposes by choosing Debug - attach to process (CTRL + ALT + P).

Ok, that explains everithing. As I told you I was running from a different folder and so the web config was different too (I suppose it had InstallationDone = false).
Thanks.

Hi Gonzalo,

we have published the Building a custom ASP.NET project based on MonoX tutorial so you can take a look and get more information on this topic.

Regards

Hi, I'm sorry, the link doesn't work! :D
Thanks,

Gonzalo

It does work now.
I'll take a look right now.
Thanks!!