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What are your favorite applications, products, or any applications that you know of that use .NET or Asp.NET as their underlying platform? What popular companies do you know of as a .NET shop?

This question is related to a few others that I have seen. So I've just made this one as a community wiki to see what kind of a response there is.

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MySpace is probably one of the biggest ASP.NET sites going around. Proves ASP.NET can handle mega load.

Craig
Myspace is built on ColdFusion.
Jeremy Reagan
No, it's build on ASP... at the beginning COldFusion than ASP .NET
Daok
Then why do their pages still have .cfm and fuseaction, unless they are doing some mix and match.
Jeremy Reagan
Extension is nothing in the web development you can change .php to .html or whatever. They have keep some .cfm to keep consistence I think
Daok
Was there ever any doubt that .Net could handle large loads? It's one of the most efficient and scalable web frameworks around.
Kibbee
I think no body doubt ASP.NET can handle mega load now, but people still think if you have really big site you have to do it on UNIX because Windows can't scale.
Craig
Craig: you mean, Windows can't scale if all you know is Unix ;-)
Steven A. Lowe
+10  A: 

Paint.net uses the .net framework, I believe it's written in C# as well.

Jeremy Reagan
This is my favorite :)
nyxtom
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ATI catalyst driver control panel.

pmlarocque
+3  A: 

The ASP.NET web site's Getting Started has a "Who is using ASP.NET?" section that includes MySpace.com, Dell.com, Match.com, Monster.com, Costco.com, Lego.com, and LondonStockExchange.com.

Mark Cidade
Microsoft.com is on ASP.NET. And, it is no small, low trafficked website by any means. It has major load.
Chris Pietschmann
+1  A: 

Windows Media Centre

PlacidBox
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All the programas I've created using the platform are my favorites :)

I don't really see why it matters in which platform specific applications are written as long as they perform their job in a good way.

Mischa Kroon
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SQL Server Managment Studio and Paint.Net

Joel Coehoorn
Are you sure SSMS is written in .NET?
Mitch Wheat
Yes. Not all of it, but most of the UI uses .Net
Joel Coehoorn
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Cray, Inc - The Supercomputer Company - BTW. Orderd by CX1 today and its going to be sweet....

MikeJ
+1  A: 

Toronto.com was developed with asp.net - its one of the largest media sites in Toronto, Canada. you can read the case study if you like.

MikeJ
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

BlackWasp
+2  A: 

Stack Overflow is a good example.

nyxtom
+1  A: 

Vista Print

Ryan
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For me one of the more common applications that I use every day, and don't know how I could live without is Quickbookx.

It is all built on .NET as well.

Mitchel Sellers
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SharpDevelop an IDE for .Net development.

Xobni, a popular plug-in for Outlook.

JohnForDummies
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Surprised it hasn't been mentioned...

Visual Studio

Chris Stewart
I guess the reason it hasn't been mentioned is that it's not written in .Net. VS 2010 has more parts written in managed code (big pieces of the UI for example), but far from everything.
Patrik Hägne