Impressive .NET applications
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I'm having a hard time convincing people to work on projects with me, or even look at my projects. The main reason is that they won't ever touch .NET with a 10 foot long pole, due to the zealous anti-MS sentiment and an endless list of other platforms that can do bits and pieces of what .NET can. Explaining .NET's technical features doesn't seem to convince people whatsoever; people tend to just shrug them off, somewhat because I can't explain .NET in under 30 seconds. Rhetorical articles, as well written as some of them may be, get shrugged off just as lightly. For the same reasons, I'm having a hard time finding software written in .NET that can be labelled "impressive", and ultimately when I'm asked to show some impressive .NET applications, I'm at a loss for words. Personally I love .NET and I think for a lot of cases it's the way to go, but I'm wishing that people would at least accept it as a valid citizen of our modern languages and platforms. In the past 5 years, at least half of the hardcore programmers out there haven't even given it a chance. Do you think we could compile a list of impressive .NET applications? And please, let's try to stay on topic. So far I have Mono[^], NASA World Wind[^], .NET Terrarium[^]. Apparently this nowhere near enough.
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I'm having a hard time convincing people to work on projects with me, or even look at my projects. The main reason is that they won't ever touch .NET with a 10 foot long pole, due to the zealous anti-MS sentiment and an endless list of other platforms that can do bits and pieces of what .NET can. Explaining .NET's technical features doesn't seem to convince people whatsoever; people tend to just shrug them off, somewhat because I can't explain .NET in under 30 seconds. Rhetorical articles, as well written as some of them may be, get shrugged off just as lightly. For the same reasons, I'm having a hard time finding software written in .NET that can be labelled "impressive", and ultimately when I'm asked to show some impressive .NET applications, I'm at a loss for words. Personally I love .NET and I think for a lot of cases it's the way to go, but I'm wishing that people would at least accept it as a valid citizen of our modern languages and platforms. In the past 5 years, at least half of the hardcore programmers out there haven't even given it a chance. Do you think we could compile a list of impressive .NET applications? And please, let's try to stay on topic. So far I have Mono[^], NASA World Wind[^], .NET Terrarium[^]. Apparently this nowhere near enough.
reinux wrote: Do you think we could compile a list of impressive .NET applications? Doubtful, at this early stage of the game. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
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I'm having a hard time convincing people to work on projects with me, or even look at my projects. The main reason is that they won't ever touch .NET with a 10 foot long pole, due to the zealous anti-MS sentiment and an endless list of other platforms that can do bits and pieces of what .NET can. Explaining .NET's technical features doesn't seem to convince people whatsoever; people tend to just shrug them off, somewhat because I can't explain .NET in under 30 seconds. Rhetorical articles, as well written as some of them may be, get shrugged off just as lightly. For the same reasons, I'm having a hard time finding software written in .NET that can be labelled "impressive", and ultimately when I'm asked to show some impressive .NET applications, I'm at a loss for words. Personally I love .NET and I think for a lot of cases it's the way to go, but I'm wishing that people would at least accept it as a valid citizen of our modern languages and platforms. In the past 5 years, at least half of the hardcore programmers out there haven't even given it a chance. Do you think we could compile a list of impressive .NET applications? And please, let's try to stay on topic. So far I have Mono[^], NASA World Wind[^], .NET Terrarium[^]. Apparently this nowhere near enough.
This one is cool IMO. (I do admin one of main man on project taught me C# nad .NET in school, but still, now I have something to show PHPers who say ASP.NET (and whole .NET of course) is slow...) Phalanger (PHP compiler)[^] I use Paint.NET, but find it little slow sometimes. David Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
David's thoughts / dnhsoftware.org / MyHTMLTidy -
This one is cool IMO. (I do admin one of main man on project taught me C# nad .NET in school, but still, now I have something to show PHPers who say ASP.NET (and whole .NET of course) is slow...) Phalanger (PHP compiler)[^] I use Paint.NET, but find it little slow sometimes. David Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
David's thoughts / dnhsoftware.org / MyHTMLTidyNice. Yeah, Paint.NET is good too, but I don't feel like I can show it off quite yet until it speeds up a bit.
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reinux wrote: Do you think we could compile a list of impressive .NET applications? Doubtful, at this early stage of the game. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
Ehh even after 5 years? :(
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Ehh even after 5 years? :(
Yep. How many programs are in wide use today that did not exist in some form 5 years ago ? We're all using Windows/IE/Office. I'm sure there are plenty that exist in smaller scope, custom built stuff ( hey, I'd like to think I wrote some of it !!!! ), but nothing I install that's remotely in wide use uses .NET. I still think ASP.NET is the killer app in .NET. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
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I'm having a hard time convincing people to work on projects with me, or even look at my projects. The main reason is that they won't ever touch .NET with a 10 foot long pole, due to the zealous anti-MS sentiment and an endless list of other platforms that can do bits and pieces of what .NET can. Explaining .NET's technical features doesn't seem to convince people whatsoever; people tend to just shrug them off, somewhat because I can't explain .NET in under 30 seconds. Rhetorical articles, as well written as some of them may be, get shrugged off just as lightly. For the same reasons, I'm having a hard time finding software written in .NET that can be labelled "impressive", and ultimately when I'm asked to show some impressive .NET applications, I'm at a loss for words. Personally I love .NET and I think for a lot of cases it's the way to go, but I'm wishing that people would at least accept it as a valid citizen of our modern languages and platforms. In the past 5 years, at least half of the hardcore programmers out there haven't even given it a chance. Do you think we could compile a list of impressive .NET applications? And please, let's try to stay on topic. So far I have Mono[^], NASA World Wind[^], .NET Terrarium[^]. Apparently this nowhere near enough.
SourceGear's Vault[^] and Dragnet[^] seem pretty impressive to me. IIRC version 4.0 of their SourceOffSite[^] is also written in C#. There's a case study[^] regarding the port from Visual J++. Microsoft have a whole raft[^] of case studies where C# was used. Now, Microsoft haven't yet rewritten their Office apps to run on top of the framework. But a lot of their tools are. For example, the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer[^] is a .NET Framework app. SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer[^] is too. Add to that Fiddler[^], a tool for monitoring HTTP traffic (Fiddler is not an official MS release but is written by an Internet Explorer Program Manager). Do you like RSS feeds? RSS Bandit[
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I'm having a hard time convincing people to work on projects with me, or even look at my projects. The main reason is that they won't ever touch .NET with a 10 foot long pole, due to the zealous anti-MS sentiment and an endless list of other platforms that can do bits and pieces of what .NET can. Explaining .NET's technical features doesn't seem to convince people whatsoever; people tend to just shrug them off, somewhat because I can't explain .NET in under 30 seconds. Rhetorical articles, as well written as some of them may be, get shrugged off just as lightly. For the same reasons, I'm having a hard time finding software written in .NET that can be labelled "impressive", and ultimately when I'm asked to show some impressive .NET applications, I'm at a loss for words. Personally I love .NET and I think for a lot of cases it's the way to go, but I'm wishing that people would at least accept it as a valid citizen of our modern languages and platforms. In the past 5 years, at least half of the hardcore programmers out there haven't even given it a chance. Do you think we could compile a list of impressive .NET applications? And please, let's try to stay on topic. So far I have Mono[^], NASA World Wind[^], .NET Terrarium[^]. Apparently this nowhere near enough.
Arena Wars[^] This is a rts game written with C#
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I'm having a hard time convincing people to work on projects with me, or even look at my projects. The main reason is that they won't ever touch .NET with a 10 foot long pole, due to the zealous anti-MS sentiment and an endless list of other platforms that can do bits and pieces of what .NET can. Explaining .NET's technical features doesn't seem to convince people whatsoever; people tend to just shrug them off, somewhat because I can't explain .NET in under 30 seconds. Rhetorical articles, as well written as some of them may be, get shrugged off just as lightly. For the same reasons, I'm having a hard time finding software written in .NET that can be labelled "impressive", and ultimately when I'm asked to show some impressive .NET applications, I'm at a loss for words. Personally I love .NET and I think for a lot of cases it's the way to go, but I'm wishing that people would at least accept it as a valid citizen of our modern languages and platforms. In the past 5 years, at least half of the hardcore programmers out there haven't even given it a chance. Do you think we could compile a list of impressive .NET applications? And please, let's try to stay on topic. So far I have Mono[^], NASA World Wind[^], .NET Terrarium[^]. Apparently this nowhere near enough.
I've written some very impressive vb.net apps over the last 9 months, which is when I started to learn vb.net. I have an app that works with a web site that allows Radiologists to view images from remote Ultrasound, MRI, etc systems, and then dictate their opinions to a .wav file which is then automatically (through a webservice) copy those .wav files to a server where a transcriptionist can start Word and do the transcribing. I created a Word toolbar (using vb.net) to download the Dr's study list to Word and display it through a dropdown combobox on my Word toolbar, so the transcriptionist can select the study to transcribe. Once selected, my Word toolbar downloads a template (via a webservice) and the .wav file starts to play automatically. When the doc is done, the user presses a SAVE DOC button and the Word doc is sent to a server (via a webservice) so the doctor can review the finished document. All of this is done in vb.net. And there is far more going on in these programs than I can really list here.
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I'm having a hard time convincing people to work on projects with me, or even look at my projects. The main reason is that they won't ever touch .NET with a 10 foot long pole, due to the zealous anti-MS sentiment and an endless list of other platforms that can do bits and pieces of what .NET can. Explaining .NET's technical features doesn't seem to convince people whatsoever; people tend to just shrug them off, somewhat because I can't explain .NET in under 30 seconds. Rhetorical articles, as well written as some of them may be, get shrugged off just as lightly. For the same reasons, I'm having a hard time finding software written in .NET that can be labelled "impressive", and ultimately when I'm asked to show some impressive .NET applications, I'm at a loss for words. Personally I love .NET and I think for a lot of cases it's the way to go, but I'm wishing that people would at least accept it as a valid citizen of our modern languages and platforms. In the past 5 years, at least half of the hardcore programmers out there haven't even given it a chance. Do you think we could compile a list of impressive .NET applications? And please, let's try to stay on topic. So far I have Mono[^], NASA World Wind[^], .NET Terrarium[^]. Apparently this nowhere near enough.
Many applications integrate .NET, even though they are not pure .NET. In fact, you may not even realize that such applications are .NET. For example, I work for a large healthcare solutions company - Eclipsys Corporation. We are a major player in the Healthcare IT arena, and may of the applications that we build have significant parts that are .NET. Sunrise XA 4.0, our latest release of our Clinical Solutions software, contains a great deal of .NET code. The product that I work on, Eclipsys Sunrise eLink, is a major competitor in the integrations solution market, and many hospitals rely on this product for reliable HL7 message proccessing in the Hospital Enterprise. Our next release will be comprised significantly of .NET code, with future releases approaching 100% managed code. These are only a few examples. Microsoft has many more on their website, if you want to spend the time looking.
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SourceGear's Vault[^] and Dragnet[^] seem pretty impressive to me. IIRC version 4.0 of their SourceOffSite[^] is also written in C#. There's a case study[^] regarding the port from Visual J++. Microsoft have a whole raft[^] of case studies where C# was used. Now, Microsoft haven't yet rewritten their Office apps to run on top of the framework. But a lot of their tools are. For example, the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer[^] is a .NET Framework app. SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer[^] is too. Add to that Fiddler[^], a tool for monitoring HTTP traffic (Fiddler is not an official MS release but is written by an Internet Explorer Program Manager). Do you like RSS feeds? RSS Bandit[
Wow, some of the case studies are amazing. I'm trying to start off a consulting business, so this is really encouraging. It'd be nice if Microsoft rewrote some of their flagship apps in .NET, eh? There was some discussion about it on the Microsoft newsgroups, and the conclusion there was mainly that the cost of rewriting everything didn't outweight the benifits. Yes, I have several RSS feeds I keep track of using SharpReader[^]. I'll give RSS Bandit a try too. Thanks!