All the improvements which are not related to Xamarin's commercial offerings will be done in MonoDevelop, and we have plans for a lot of them: code analysis, version control, debugger, etc. Lluis went on to say in his mailing list message, 'The development of MonoDevelop will continue like it has been in the past. So at its heart, Xamarin Studio is still very much MonoDevelop just with some extras tacked on.

These add-ins add in the support for handling Android and iOS projects plus Xamarin service integration such as with their new Component Store.

Xamarin Studio is in fact MonoDevelop, with the distinguishing factor being just a set of add-ins. Xamarin's Lluis Sanchez Gual clarified the IDE situation on their mailing list. Now there's some clarification out of the Cambridge company. In writing yesterday about Xamarin 2.0 it wasn't clear the relation between the new Xamarin Studio integrated development environment and MonoDevelop IDE that Xamarin had been pushing up to this point for Mono development.

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