C# simple open source application

Question

C# simple open source desktop application to learn from?

I'm trying to learn C#, but most of the times I found tutorials for non programmers which are pretty boring, or comparission with other lenguages.

I tried to compile an application that look nice enough as to call my attention and simple enough ( at first glance ) as to be understood by me, but it turns out it was developed in Mono.

I've downloaded VS for C# express edition in the past, but didn't knew what to do next with it.

So my question is:

Does anyone knows about a simple open source Windows Application developed in C# I can learn from?

It doesn't have to be too simple, but most of the ones I've looked so far are pretty complex, since they are production ready.

Thanks

Answer 1

These aren't desktop applications but they are good open source web applications done mostly in C# that you could learn from.

http://www.asp.net/community/projects/

Answer 2

Have you tried looking at SourceForge or Code Project?

Answer 3

check out http://www.codeplex.com

Answer 4

If you dont mind wpf, try BabySmash

Answer 5

There are a lot of sample apps for both winforms and WPF over at windowsclient.net. I'm not sure I would call any of them a reference application, but there sure are a lot of them. :)

Answer 6

I've had tremendous luck with Microsoft's SharePoint, and extending it was a lot of fun and very educational WRT c# and learning to use it. Check out pilothouseconsulting's development dvd for a lot of good initial information on setting up a debugger and such.

Answer 7

A very simple command line grep tool I put on google code. You may find that interesting.