What is the difference between mono and mono develop?

Question

i am curious to know what exactly is the difference between Mono Software and Monodevelop. and do i need both of these if i want to do "C#"?

Answer 1

• mono

  is the runtime that executes your interpreted code.

• monodevelop

  is an IDE (Intergrated Development Enviroment) it helps you write, evaluate and debug code written in VB, C#, etc. that eventually gets executed by the mono runtime.

While you need mono, you don't need monodevelop to write and execute C# applications. However, it is quite a nice IDE to write C# and it takes some of the labour out of debugging.