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The following articles have been written by members of the MonoDevelop community. New articles are greatly appreciated!

This page is under construction. If you want to contribute by writing some of the missing tutorials, please let us known by sending a mail to our mailing list (http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodevelop-list).

Table of contents

Basics

Feature List

Read Article. A list of all features supported by MonoDevelop.

Creating A Simple Solution

Read Article. This tutorial is intended as an introduction to working with MonoDevelop.

Solutions and Projects Explained

TODO

Adding Assemblies and Packages to a Project

TODO

Creating C/C++ Projects

Read article. This tutorial provides an overview of creating simple C/C++ projects.

GTK# Development

Using the GTK# GUI Designer

Read Article. A short tutorial on using the Stetic GUI designer.

Screencast: Creating a simple user interface with MonoDevelop

See Screencast. This screencast shows how to use MonoDevelop and the integrated GTK# designer to create an application with a simple user interface.

Screencast: Creating custom widgets with MonoDevelop

See Screencast. This screencast shows how to use MonoDevelop to create custom GTK# widgets and use those widgets in an application.

Using GTK# to Create User Interfaces

TODO

Using the GTK# designer to create reusable components

TODO

Desktop Integration

TODO

Development

Refactoring Operations

TODO

Build and Deployment

Working with Visual Studio projects

TODO

Creating Makefiles

TODO

Localizing applications

TODO

Screencast: Building packages with MonoDevelop

See Screencast. This screencast shows how to use MonoDevelop to create source and binary packages for projects.

Working with Source Code Control

Screencast: Using Version Control in MonoDevelop

See Screencast. A screencast showing how to use the integrated Version Control features in MonoDevelop.

Web Programming

How to create ASP.NET applications with MonoDevelop

Read Article. An overview of the features that MonoDevelop provides for developing ASP.NET applications.

Consuming Web Services

TODO

Working With Databases

The Database Explorer

TODO

Extending MonoDevelop

If you want to create new add-ins for the IDE, implement your own tools based on the platform, contribute on the development of MonoDevelop, or just know more about the project, you'll find some useful information in the following sections:

  • Articles: A collection of articles written by the MonoDevelop community. You'll find technical documentation, tutorials and other useful information for learning about the MonoDevelop platform.
  • TODO: A list of features we would like MD to have. If you want to contribute, just pick one of them and notify through the mailing list (http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodevelop-list) that your are going to work on it.