Creating .Net Applications on Linux and Mac OS X

Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET Framework built to run on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. If you are developing on Windows, you can build Mono applications using Visual Studio as well as SharpDevelop, but neither of those IDEs runs on Linux or Mac OS X. MonoDevelop started out as a port of the SharpDevelop IDE but has since evolved independently into the only Mono IDE available for GNOME-based Linux desktops.

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