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.
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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.
SLaks
2010-10-27 17:46:06
Well put, that counts certainly. I had desktop apps in mind though.
JohnDoe
2010-10-27 17:49:35
I'm sure he means client applications (i.e. Applications that depend on the .NET Framework to be installed on the end-users machine)
Y Low
2010-10-27 17:50:16
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Visual Studio's 2010 GUI is written using WPF. The application is not completely managed though.
n535
2010-10-27 17:47:12
I'm an end user and I use VS2010.... As developers, we are end users of the development IDE, just as someone typing up a document is the end user of Word...
David Stratton
2010-10-27 17:50:21
Agreed, David. Saying that developers aren't end-users of the systems that we are using is too-restrictive. If I am not developing the Visual Studio product itself, I am an end-user of it.
Adam Crossland
2010-10-27 17:52:16
@SLaks: You really screwed up with that comment. Doesn't do justice to your 86k points... Had OP said "consumer market" then you might have a point, and a partial one at that.
gmagana
2010-10-27 18:01:10
@gmagana: I'm pretty sure that that's what he meant, even if he used the wrong term. What do you think he means?
SLaks
2010-10-27 18:04:18
@SLaks: I think he means what he says: Applications for end users to use. This is a good definition I found on the web: "The end user is the individual who uses the product after it has been fully developed and marketed."
gmagana
2010-10-27 18:10:34
@SLaks: Hmm.. Everything else? Sample programs for developers to kick around, internal stuff never seen outside MS (ie, MS' internal version control system), etc. I think the point is that programmers are end users too. Blah! This is too philioposhical without my noon shot of tequila...
gmagana
2010-10-27 18:16:12
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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
Y Low
2010-10-27 17:55:18
In other words, "Not the one's your thinking about, but not because they don't have confidence in the product, (as a reader might gather from the question)."
Joel Coehoorn
2010-10-27 18:01:52
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Most of Microsoft Dynamics are written (or have significant porttions written) in .NET
Andrew Lewis
2010-10-27 17:58:39
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Windows Live Writer is one - at least the last two versions (and IIRC, all versions since it was first released) are ground-up WinForms.
ParanoidMike
2010-10-27 18:03:16