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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#"?

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  • 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.

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    The answer could be clearer if it were to explain IDE
    – don.joey
    Dec 28, 2012 at 14:42

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