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I have downloaded Mono for Windows from This page. And installed it. Since I am very new to this program I even couldn't find how to launch it. All I can see in the start menu are those in the picture. So how can I launch this Mono software?

Answer 1

Mono is a cross-platform implementation of .NET (which you definitely don't need if you are targeting windows)

MonoDevelop is an IDE (integrated development environment) that builds Mono/.NET applications.

You only installed Mono (the framework) and you don't "run" a framework. To get the IDE, go to MonoDevlop. Also, since you are on Windows, I would recommend using Visual Studio (Microsoft's .NET IDE) instead. The express editions are free, and all editions will compile to something Mono would run (you should probably target .NET 4 just to be safe). Many (including myself) consider it to be a far superior product.

Answer 2

I am not sure what do you mean by "launch this Mono software". Mono just provides the runtime environment capable of executing other .net applications. You won't get much benefit from launching mono alone (it is just a command line application) exactly as you won't get much benefit from launching java runtime standalone (which is also just a command line application). However you can use mono to execute .NET applications exactly as you can use java runtime to execute java applications but since you are using Windows you should already have .NET framework installed which does exactly what Mono does - provides the runtime environment for .NET applications.