Creating .Net Applications on Linux and Mac OS X

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April 17, 2007 -- This article is excerpted from Windows Developer Power Tools, by James Avery and Jim Holmes, with permission of O'Reilly Media Inc. All rights reserved.
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.
Getting Started
MonoDevelop requires a version of Linux running the GNOME desktop. (Red Hat Fedora Core 5 is used for the examples in this section.) The easiest way to get MonoDevelop up and running is to use the Mono 1.1.15_2 installer available from...