One of the reasons that Perl remains one of the most cost effective and fastest development systems available today is CPAN the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a public web site that maintains literally tens of thousands of Perl modules, scripts and documents. This site allows Perl programmers to re-use and rapidly repurpose existing Perl code for new projects without reinventing the wheel.
One CPAN you will find vast quantities of high quality, high performance software. If C# and Mono are expected to succeed, they will need a similar site to CPAN, PEAR (PHP's CPAN) or PyPI (Python's CPAN.)
Without a community site for sharing open source modules, Mono and C# will never reach the level of rapid development you can find in LAMPpp application development. A brave soul (Joshua Tauberer) has created MonoLibs, a directory of open-source C# libraries for Mono and Microsoft .NET.
I encourage you to take a look and, perhaps, even contribute the C# code you are working on.
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