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SignalR is a tool that quickly became a standard for building real-time ASP.NET applications In this post, I'm going to explain how to setup MonoX for SignalR and build a module that uses this framework to send real-time notifications to all active users.

This is a short intorduction to thread synchronization in .NET. It covers some basic techniques that you may be already familiar with, but also explains how to deal with scenarios when you need to cross process boundaries. We also visit some of the issues that may arise with synchronization.

Every developer deals with data retrieval, display and manipulation - or data binding - on a daily basis. DataManager in MonoX allows you to use two-way data binding in a more elegant way. It can push your data to and from your views, taking care of the current display mode for each control.

Very often you can fine tune MonoX functionality without programming, but some solutions do require a lot of background ASP.NET knowledge. To ease the learning curve in this type of scenarios, we have decided to introduce a fully fledged MonoX API that allows developers to easily access and modify MonoX objects and features.

The newest release of MonoX includes the support for the OpenSocial Server API 1.1. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first downloadable ASP.NET CMS that allows third-party applications or services to connect via the OpenSocial standard. Learn more about OpenSocial and how it can be used in MonoX.