Question

I’m wondering if there are any architectural frameworks out there to create desktop or standalone applications, in Java or C# for instance. It seems that there are tons of them available for web applications but I can’t find many good resources on frameworks or architectural best-practices for desktop development.

Ideally I would like to know if there is any source code available of desktop applications that would be considered to have a good architecture or are built with a certain framework.

Answer 1

While not directly related to desktop applications if you are looking for decent source code for well written projects I asked a similar question:

Open source C# projects that have extremely high code quality to learn from.

People gave some pretty good suggestions there:

• Scott Hanselman’s The Weekly Source Code series (usually managed C#)
• Code written by Microsoft Patterns & Practices team.
• SharpDevelop (written in C#)
• Mono (most of the framework in C#)
• Paint.Net (written in C#)
• NHibernate (written in C#)
• The Castle Project (written in C#)
• xUnit (written in C#)
• .Net Framework Source Code