Good Examples of .NET Desktop Applications

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I would like to evaluate .NET as a development platform for a desktop application. I am looking for good examples of .NET desktop applications used in the mainstream. The only ones I know of are:

Visual Studio (The copy website form is one example.)
Team Explorer UI
Paint.NET
Reflector
Gnome Do (An app launcher for Gnome; runs on Mono)

I am looking for more examples; open source, freeware or a demo version in that order.

Suggestions?

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '08 at 06:20

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SharpDevelop is an open source Development IDE for .NET very much like VS.NET written in .NET (iirc it still has some pinvokes, but it is all managed code) and is quite large and feature complete.

You can even get the source code for it to look at.

answered Oct 08 '08 at 06:20

mattlant

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Awesome! How did I miss this?! – Agnel Kurian Oct 08 '08 at 06:37

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '08 at 08:50

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answered Oct 15 '08 at 08:50

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score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 08 '08 at 05:31

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There are lots of desktop apps done in .NET, only most of them are internal/enterprise apps in companies, not mass-market products.

The only downside I see to doing a mass-market desktop app in .NET is the need to distribute the .NET Framework with it. Of course with the advent of Windows Vista, .NET already comes preinstalled.

answered Oct 08 '08 at 05:31

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.Net comes preinstalled on XP too. – Max Schmeling Oct 08 '08 at 05:41
In fact, you will want to use .NET 3.5 so some sort of distribution is still needed, even on Vista. – Michael Damatov Oct 08 '08 at 06:57

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 18 '12 at 03:14

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KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

answered Jan 18 '12 at 03:14

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You might be interested in this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10543583 – Robert Harvey May 14 '12 at 18:45
How is it linked to the answer? (Didn't want to flag a Robert Harvey comment.) – Léon Pelletier Feb 22 '13 at 10:55

Jobi Joy · Answer 5 · 2008-10-08T06:09:37.830

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Check for WPF(.NET3.5) applications

http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/

WPF app by Frog design

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answered Oct 08 '08 at 05:56

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 08 '08 at 06:03

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Windows Live Writer

answered Oct 08 '08 at 06:03

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Matt Hamilton · Answer 7 · 2008-10-23T03:47:52.540

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Comicster! :)

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answered Oct 08 '08 at 06:39

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 13 '09 at 08:43

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Icarus (screenshots here), the GUI of Gallio/MbUnit OSS testing platform.

answered Oct 13 '09 at 08:43

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 08 '08 at 05:28

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I have this Game Neverwinter Nights 2, quite a big thing, and it has some SharpZipLib and QWhale DLLs included. Should be dotNet

answered Oct 08 '08 at 05:28

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score 1 · Answer 10 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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I found this from the related questions list.

Most notable are Gnome applications running on Mono/Linux. Tomboy, Beagle and F-Spot!

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answered Oct 08 '08 at 05:46

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score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Oct 13 '08 at 02:15

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slimKEYS is written in C# with some p/invokes.

answered Oct 13 '08 at 02:15

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Oct 08 '08 at 05:43

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Windows Media Center has a managed API I believe. I'm not sure how much .Net stuff is in WMC, but you can check it out.

answered Oct 08 '08 at 05:43

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Good Examples of .NET Desktop Applications

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