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"Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows."

MonoHelper offers XBuild integration into Visual Studio, so you can use Mono within Visual Studio (Build & Run). When using XBuild or XRebuild command, MonoHelper detects current installed Mono Runtime or use preconfigured installation path, call XBuild with current configuration settings and outputs the results into the Output Console. It also generates pdb symbol files, so you can debug XBuild compiled programs with Visual Studio (running with .NET Runtime - see Stackoverflow about how this is done). If you want to run your program with installed Mono runtime, this is also possible.

"The Microsoft Build Engine is a platform for building applications. This engine, which is also known as MSBuild, provides an XML schema for a project file that controls how the build platform processes and builds software. Visual Studio uses MSBuild, but it doesn't depend on Visual Studio. By invoking msbuild.exe on your project or solution file, you can orchestrate and build products in environments where Visual Studio isn't installed."