Tangerine -- A WPF Reference Application

Introduction

Use Tangerine™, our first reference application for WPF, to not only learn WPF and NetAdvantage for WPF but also to learn good practices for enterprise application development across the board. This solution provides a full application, including complete source code, as well as several accompanying papers to help guide you in your application development. In addition to using it as a learning tool, the solution has been architected in such a way as to make it easy for you to reuse it in your own development, either in whole or in part.

Tangerine v1.1 is a WPF-based asset browser application. It has a pluggable architecture so that you can provide any number of different back-end asset providers while reusing the same snazzy UI that's based on Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF toolset. In our first release, we have supplied an Amazon Web Services' E-Commerce Service provider so that you can use the application to browse and search the Amazon.com catalog. You can use the links below to both run the application (via ClickOnce deployment) now or download the solution and papers.

To learn more about the solution, check out Introducing Tangerine, which describes the tools we used to build Tangerine as well as an overview of its accompanying papers.

  

Experience Tangerine Now

Experience Tangerine now via ClickOnce deployment. Double-check your computer meets the minimum requirements prior to launching.

Minimum Requirements to Run:

Get Tangerine

Generally speaking, the only tool you need in addition to all the usual stuff needed to develop WPF is NetAdvantage for WPF. If you don't own it, you can download a trial for free.

Minimum Requirements for Development:

Delve into Tangerine

The best way to really dive into Tangerine is to go ahead and download the complete solution so that you can explore the code. However, for your convenience, you can delve into the accompanying papers online.

  • Introducing Tangerine (PDF/XPS) [~1.2 MB] - The best way to get started learning about the solution.
  • Story (PDF/XPS) [~800 KB] - Tells the story of the application's development, including key decisions and problems solved along the way.
  • Vision & Scope (PDF/XPS) [~410 KB] - The original, unaltered vision & scope document that started the development process that you can use as an example and to get a feel for how the application changed over time. It is an artifact of the application's development.
  • Requirements (PDF/XPS) [~650 KB] - The original, unaltered requirements document that can be used as an example of how to do scenario-based requirements without falling into the rut of prescribing an implementation. It is another artifact of our development.
  • Architecture (PDF/XPS) [~700 KB] - An architectural overview of the solution—a good starting point before delving into the code.
  • Perspectives on WPF (PDF/XPS) [~370 KB] - Discusses learning WPF from the viewpoint of different developer/designer roles.
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