We previously installed Visual Studio Express, an IDE to developed .NET applications that Microsoft made available for free. But in order to be able to develop web applications, we need to install another IDE. Don’t worry, it’s also free.

Mono is a multi-platform and open source framework for .NET, and MonoDevelop is the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Mono. In this post we’re going to install MonoDevelop in our Ubuntu installation.

We’ve seen two of the most popular IDE for Java. Now is the turn for .NET. There are really not many free options when developing for .NET. Visual Studio is definitely the most common IDE for .NET, and Visual Studio Express is the free version of Visual Studio. We’ll install Visual Studio Express on this post.

Eclipse is an IDE with a lot of support from the community, but it’s not the only option. NetBeans is another option to develop in Java. NetBeans is a great IDE too. We’ll go over the installation of NetBeans in this post.

We’ve seen that a text editor is enough to start writing Java code. But there are tools that can facilitate many of the tasks at the time of writing code and debugging our applications. Eclipse is one of those tools.