diff --git a/Configuration.props b/Configuration.props
index 93e4dd6f603..5b00715026a 100644
--- a/Configuration.props
+++ b/Configuration.props
@@ -16,5 +16,6 @@
     <AndroidFrameworkVersion Condition=" '$(AndroidFrameworkVersion)' == '' ">v6.0</AndroidFrameworkVersion>
     <AndroidToolchainCacheDirectory Condition=" '$(AndroidToolchainCacheDirectory)' == '' ">$(HOME)\android-archives</AndroidToolchainCacheDirectory>
     <AndroidToolchainDirectory Condition=" '$(AndroidToolchainDirectory)' == '' ">$(HOME)\android-toolchain</AndroidToolchainDirectory>
+    <MonoDevelopPoliciesFile>$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)MonoDevelopPolicies.xml</MonoDevelopPoliciesFile>
   </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>
diff --git a/MonoDevelopPolicies.xml b/MonoDevelopPolicies.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9a0f40e222
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MonoDevelopPolicies.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<Policies>
+    <TextStylePolicy inheritsSet="VisualStudio" inheritsScope="text/plain" scope="text/x-csharp" />
+    <CSharpFormattingPolicy IndentSwitchBody="True" IndentBlocksInsideExpressions="True" AnonymousMethodBraceStyle="NextLine" PropertyBraceStyle="NextLine" PropertyGetBraceStyle="NextLine" PropertySetBraceStyle="NextLine" EventBraceStyle="NextLine" EventAddBraceStyle="NextLine" EventRemoveBraceStyle="NextLine" StatementBraceStyle="NextLine"  ElseNewLinePlacement="NewLine" CatchNewLinePlacement="NewLine" FinallyNewLinePlacement="NewLine" WhileNewLinePlacement="DoNotCare" ArrayInitializerWrapping="DoNotChange"  ArrayInitializerBraceStyle="NextLine" BeforeMethodDeclarationParentheses="False" BeforeMethodCallParentheses="False" BeforeConstructorDeclarationParentheses="False" NewLineBeforeConstructorInitializerColon="NewLine" NewLineAfterConstructorInitializerColon="SameLine" BeforeDelegateDeclarationParentheses="False" NewParentheses="False" SpacesBeforeBrackets="False" inheritsSet="Mono" inheritsScope="text/x-csharp" scope="text/x-csharp" />
+</Policies>