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It’s a well known story: Friday afternoon, I’m trying to catch a deadline and my VS 2010 starts to mishbehave. So I started wondering if things will work better in Visual Studio 2011. Let’s take a look at the problems we had and how VS 2011 addresses them.

MonoX includes a lot of functionality out-of-the box: blogs , discussion boards, other social networking and mobile content management features and many more. But when it comes to customization, where do you start and what can you customize? Let us dig into the MonoX architecture to find out more.

Serialization is the process of converting an object into a form that can be persisted in a storage medium or transported across a communication layer. In the .NET world the you will often use the powerful binary serializer, but it comes with its pitfalls if not used properly. Let's take a look how to overcome some of the issues with binary serialization.

So you've downloaded MonoX, played with it a bit, changed a few images and portions of CSS, even changed the layout on some pages and set a bunch of Web part properties. Now you want to take it one step further and use it as a foundation for your custom projects. This tutorial demonstrate a few simple techniques for starting MonoX-based projects.

Twitter has become the most popular social networking service for writing and sharing short text messages. MonoX now allows you to easily include a list of selected tweets to your pages without using third party tools and utilities.

We have just released the new version of MonoX . This release brings more than a few interesting features - many of your suggestions were taken into account and all reported bugs were fixed.

Almost a year ago, I wrote a tutorial about MonoX Profile support, describing two possible approaches supported by MonoX when you need to develop a custom user profile. Almost every custom Web application has its own custom profile scheme, and our default profile system needs to be changed very often.This tutorial will help you jump start a custom profile by adding a few sample templates. 

Paging is one of the most common tasks developers are faced with when working with repeatable Web controls. Although MonoX default pager controls cover most of the scenarios, there is always room for customization. Visit this tutorial to learn how to implement a Facebook-style paging in your Web parts.

MonoX comes with a 170+ page manual, but it cannot cover all use cases and specialized scenarios. To bridge this gap we have decided to create a series of "How To" tutorials that will help users to quickly find their way around MonoX.

MonoX team has been very busy implementing cool new features for the next release, but never forgets to listen to what our community has to say. This time, by popular request, we will build a social networking Web part aptly named "Popular Groups". This tutorial illustrates several important techniques like templating, data binding and paging.