What are some good, useful, applications created using C# / .net ?

Question

I know that there are two obvious answers: sharpDevelop and Paint.net. But I was thinking the other day, what else is out there? What are some good, useful, applications created using C# / .net ?

Here are the answers. Feel free to add to this post.

• Baby Smash! by Scott Hanselman
• MySpace
• StackOverFlow
• Singularity
• FlashDevelop
• SharpOS
• Reflector
• SharpReader
• Microsoft Live Writer
• LSE software
• PlentyOfFish.com
• PageFlakes
• Many hosted at CodePlex
• DotNetNuke
• Beagle (mono)
• F-spot (mono)
• ForestPad
• Umbraco CMS
• SharpZipLib
• Netron
• Cropper
• Rawr

Answer 1

Check out CodePlex.com. Most projects there are .Net and most of those are C#.

Answer 2

My 10 month old loves Baby Smash! by Scott Hanselman

Answer 3

MySpace? duck

Answer 4

Cropper is a great, free screen capture utility created in C#.

Download and source code can be found here:

http://www.codeplex.com/cropper

Answer 5

the LSE software.....duck

Answer 6

SharpOS

Answer 7

Personally, I don't see too much of a difference between desktop and web applications - they both have an end in mind, and as long as that end is met via the implementation, you could say the language/platform used was useful - and there are plenty of web applications that are useful, I have worked on many over the last 6 years.

Stack Overflow may prove to be a useful web application...

Answer 8

I use FlashDevelop daily, it's IMO the best free ActionScript editor

Answer 9

SharpReader has not been updated for a while, but is a solid desktop RSS reader written in C#.

Answer 10

How about the "umbraco" CMS at http://www.codeplex.com/umbraco

Don't forget about SharpZipLib (not an application, a library, but very useful :-)).

Netron, a graphing library, that unfortunately died because the source got bought. Still, the last releases on SF are there: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69788&package_id=123851

Answer 11

Singularity

Answer 12

• Beagle - a spotlight like tool for linux

• F-spot - an image organizer for linux

Answer 13

PageFlakes is a pretty cool ASP.NET site, and PlentyOfFish has made its founder (Markus Frind) a wealthy man.

Answer 14

PlentyOfFish.com is a really popular dating site done in .Net by a single dev.

Answer 15

I find ForestPad to be quite useful.

It's a super simple application I wrote to store all the text I need to remember and it's free source.

Answer 16

C# or .NET? This one's not C#, but rather VB.NET: DotNetNuke

Answer 17

I'm fond of Reflector, but perhaps this is not the kind of application you are asking.

Answer 18

Microsoft Live Writer

Answer 19

If you play world of warcraft there is Rawr written in C#

Answer 20

I know this is old, but I was looking through here today, and decided that I would add all the links and projects into one answer.

• Baby Smash! by Scott Hanselman
• MySpace
• StackOverFlow
• Singularity
• FlashDevelop
• SharpOS
• Reflector
• SharpReader
• Microsoft Live Writer
• LSE software
• PlentyOfFish.com
• PageFlakes
• Many hosted at CodePlex
• DotNetNuke
• Beagle (mono)
• F-spot (mono)
• ForestPad
• Umbraco CMS
• SharpZipLib
• Netron
• Cropper
• Rawr

Edit: Going to copy those into the question, and let people add them there.