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JohnDoe
JohnDoe

Reputation: 2513

Is there any application by Microsoft targeting the end user market and running on the .NET framework?

It's all in the title. Inspired by http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dx8au/lessons_from_evernotes_flight_from_net/

Edit: I am primarily thinking about desktop apps, not web apps.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 921

Answers (7)

QrystaL
QrystaL

Reputation: 4966

Paint.NET

Upvotes: 4

Yona
Yona

Reputation: 9702

I think you'll hardly find mainstream apps from Microsoft written in .NET, since most of their popular applications were built before .NET was released, re-writing them for .NET provides no benefit for them.

But if you look at recent applications you might find .NET based ones:

  • Business Contact Manager (mentioned by Martin)
  • SQL Management Studio
  • Windows Live Essentials
  • Power Shell (and Exchange + all other management shells based on PS)
  • MMC in Windows (Vista,7,2008)

I know that some are not consumer based, but it shows that recent investments were made on .NET

Upvotes: 17

ParanoidMike
ParanoidMike

Reputation: 860

Windows Live Writer is one - at least the last two versions (and IIRC, all versions since it was first released) are ground-up WinForms.

Upvotes: 4

Andrew Lewis
Andrew Lewis

Reputation: 5256

Most of Microsoft Dynamics are written (or have significant porttions written) in .NET

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Dynamics_GP

Upvotes: 6

Martin
Martin

Reputation: 40365

Business Contact Manager

Upvotes: 4

n535
n535

Reputation: 5123

Visual Studio's 2010 GUI is written using WPF. The application is not completely managed though.

Upvotes: 6

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 887857

All of Microsoft's websites run ASP.Net.

Expression Studio, parts of which target end-users, is built in .Net and has a WPF-based UI.

Upvotes: 8

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