Mono is a platform for running and developing applications based on the
 ECMA/ISO Standards. Mono is an open source effort led by Xamarin.
 Mono provides a complete CLR (Common Language Runtime) including compiler and
 runtime, which can produce and execute CIL (Common Intermediate Language)
 bytecode (aka assemblies), and a class library.
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 xbuild is Mono's implementation of msbuild and allows projects that have a
 msbuild file to be compiled natively on Linux.
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 Microsoft Build (msbuild) is a build system developed by Microsoft similar in
 spirit to Nant (in that it uses XML files for describing the build process)
 and in the same spirit as make.
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 http://www.mono-project.com/Microsoft.Build