Are Xamarin Studio and Monodevelop the same IDE?

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Hi, I’m going to start programming in C#, but I don’t want to use Visual Studio, so I searched and found another IDE, Monodevelop, but when I downloaded, for Windows 10, the site said to download Xamarin Studio. I wonder if this Xamarin Studio is Monodevelop or if they are different things. If they are not wanted to know if I can freely use Xamarin Studio to develop. Thanks in advance.

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Xamarin Studio is Monodevelop with Addins and brand of Xamarin. Check out this tweet from the main developer of the project. It’s open source and it’s on Github.

If you want to use Xamarin Studio without Xamarin, just deactivate the Addins and use it as you used Monodevelop. Everything you do in Monodevelop, you can do in Xamarin Studio.

Of Monodevelop download page:

For Mac and Windows, you can download Xamarin Studio, which is a Monodevelop package with the brand and plugins of Xamarin iOS/Android. Please note that a Xamarin license is only required to be developed on iOS/Android projects, all other projects are free and unrestricted.

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