“The Mono development environment allows programmers to be more
productive than they would be with conventional C programming. The
C# language and the Mono APIs together provide a great platform to
build applications on.“Because of this ease of development, there are many cool open
source programs being built on Mono, even though Mono 1.0 has only
been released for a short time. This article provides a tour
through some of these programs, along with details about how you
can start experimenting with them yourself. Not all of the programs
featured here are finished products, but they’re all exciting and
show off interesting aspects of Mono…”