awesome-dotnet

A collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software. Inspired by awesome-ruby, awesome-php, awesome-python, frontend-dev-bookmarks and ruby-bookmarks.
https://github.com/bykovas/awesome-dotnet

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Algorithms and Data structures
- Algorithmia - Algorithm and data-structure library for .NET 3.5 and up. Algorithmia contains sophisticated algorithms and data-structures like graphs, priority queues, command, undo-redo and more.
- C# Algorithms - A C# plug-and-play class-library project of standard Data Structures and Algorithms. It contains 35+ Data Structures and 30+ Algorithms designed as Object-Oriented isolated components.
API
- Breeze - Api framework enabling rich data access by using the OData 3 protocol. Client libraries available for Javascript and C#.
- NancyFx - Lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono
- Mobius: C# API for Spark - Mobius adds C# language binding to Apache Spark, enabling the implementation of Spark driver code and data processing operations in C#.
- ServiceStack - Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all
- Nelibur - Nelibur is message based web service framework on the pure WCF. Nelibur simplifies creating high-performance and message based web services and you certainly have all the power of the WCF.
- WebAPI Contrib - Collection of open source projects to help improve your work with ASP.NET Web API
- ASP.NET WebAPI - Framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices
Application Frameworks
- ASP.NET Boilerplate - A starting point for new modern ASP.NET MVC web applications with best practices and most popular tools.
- Orleans - Orleans is a framework that provides a straight-forward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns
- CoreFX - The corefx repo contains the library implementation (called "CoreFX") for .NET Core. It includes System.Collections, System.IO, System.Xml and many other components. It builds and runs on Windows. You can 'watch' the repo to see Linux and Mac support being added over the next few months.
- CSLA .NET - business layer development framework http://cslanet.com/
- Mono - Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation
- Mono-Addins - Mono.Addins is a generic framework for creating extensible applications, and for creating add-ins which extend those applications
- peasy - Peasy is a middle tier framework that offers an easy to use and flexible rules engine and was designed to address common challenges such as concurrency handling, transactional support, fault tolerance, threading, scalability, async and multiple client support, and easy testability, all without a huge learning curve!
- Spring.Net - Spring.NET is an open source application framework that makes building enterprise .NET applications easier
- DotNetty - DotNetty is a port of Netty, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.
Application Templates
- ASP.NET Core Starter Kit - backend: .NET Core, EF Core, C#; frontend: Babel, Webpack, React, CSS Modules
- ProjectScaffold - A prototypical .NET solution recommended by the F# Foundation---includes file system setup, Paket for dependencies and FAKE for build/test automation. By default, build process also compiles documentation and generates NuGet packages.
- Side-Waffle - Large collection of useful templates for Web and Desktop development.
- Template10 - Windows 10 templates with design patterns.
- Serene - Serenity is an ASP.NET MVC application platform designed to simplify and shorten development of data-centric business applications with a service based architecture. Serene is a starter template to build Serenity applications.
- MVC.Template - ASP.NET Core MVC project starter template.
Artificial Intelligence
- AIMLBot (Program#) - A small, fast, standards-compliant yet easily customizable implementation of an AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) based chatter bot in C#.
- SIML - Synthetic Intelligence Markup Language, a next generation Chatbot & Digital Assistant Language.
Assembly Manipulation
- Fody - Extensible tool for weaving .net assemblies
- Mono.Cecil - Cecil is a library to generate and inspect programs and libraries in the ECMA CIL form.
Assets
- Bundle Transformer - Modular extension for [Microsoft ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework](http://aspnetoptimization.codeplex.com/). Its modules supports LESS, Sass, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Mustache, Handlebars, Autoprefixer along with a bunch of different JS and CSS minifiers.
- Cassette - Manages .NET web application assets (scripts, css and templates)
- NodeAssets - Asset Manager for .net that has live css updates using SignalR and can optionally leverage NodeJS compilers
- Bundler - Compile & Minify Less/Sass/Stylus/Css/JS/CoffeeScript/LiveScript files. Integrates with MVC and ServiceStack
- SquishIt - Lets you *easily* bundle some css and javascript
Authentication and Authorization
- ASP.NET Identity - New membership system for ASP.NET applications
- IdentityModel - Helper library for identity & access control in .NET 4.5 and MVC4/Web API.
- IdentityServer - Extensible OAuth2 and OpenID Connect provider framework.
- OAuth - A very lightweight library for generating OAuth 1.0a signatures written in C#
- DotNetOpenAuth - A C# implementation of the OpenID, OAuth and InfoCard protocols
- Logibit Hawk - A F# [Hawk](https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk#usage-example) authentication library
- Stuntman - Stuntman is a library for impersonating users during development leveraging .NET Claims Identity.
Books
- .NET Core in Action - teaches how to write applications and libraries with .NET Core. **[$]**
- 3rd edition - sharp-in-depth-fourth-edition) - deep dive into the details of the C# language. **[$]**
- CLR via C# - Dig deep and master the intricacies of the common language runtime, C#, and .NET development. **[$]**
- Functional Programming in C# - teaches how to best leverage the functional features of the C# language. **[$]**
- Microservices in .NET Core - shows you how to build maintainable, secure and operations-friendly microservices using Nancy and .NET Core. **[$]**
- Dependency Injection in .NET - injection-in-dot-net-second-edition) - teaches you to use Dependency Injection to reduce hard-coded dependencies between application components in .NET. **[$]**
Build Automation
- Psake - .NET-based build automation tool written in PowerShell
- Invoke-Build - PowerShell build and test automation tool inspired by Psake.
- Cake - Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system with a C# DSL.
- Nake - Magic script-based C# task runner
- FAKE - F# Make, a cross platform build automation system
- MSBuild - The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio
Caching
- CacheCow - An ASP.NET Web API HTTP caching implementation both on client and server
- CacheManager - A common interface and abstraction layer for caching.
- Foundatio - A common interface with in memory, redis and hybrid implementations.
- Akavache - An asynchronous, persistent key-value store
CLI
- Appccelerate - Command Line Parser - A command line parser with fluent definition syntax, different argument types, required and optional arguments, value restrictions, aliases, type conversion and semi-automatic usage help message composition
- Command Line Parser - The Command Line Parser Library offers to CLR applications a clean and concise API for manipulating command line arguments and related tasks
- Fluent Command Line Parser - A simple, strongly typed .NET C# command line parser library using a fluent easy to use interface
- Power Args - PowerArgs converts command line arguments into .NET objects that are easy to program against. It also provides a ton of optional capabilities such as argument validation, auto generated usage, tab completion, and plenty of extensibility
- Argu - Declarative CLI argument & XML configuration parser for F# applications.
- Colorful.Console - Colorful console output.
- EntryPoint - Composable CLI Argument Parser for .Net Core & .Net Framework 4.5+.
- clipr - A CLI library inspired by Python's argparse that transforms a command line into a strongly-typed object. It supports custom argument types, automated (and localized) help generation, and a variety of ways to store parsed arguments.
- ReadLine - A GNU-Readline like library for .NET/.NET Core.
CLR
- CoreCLR - The coreclr repo contains the complete runtime implementation (called "CoreCLR") for .NET Core. It includes RyuJIT, the .NET GC, native interop and many other components. It builds and runs on Windows. You can 'watch' the repo to see Linux and Mac support being added over the next few months.
CMS
- mojoPortal - MojoPortal is an extensible, cross database, mobile friendly, web content management system (CMS) and web application framework written in C# ASP.NET
- BetterCMS - Open Source .NET Intuitive User Interface for Developer and Publisher
- DotNetNuke - DNN Platform is our free, open source web CMS and the foundation of every professional DNN solution. Over 750,000 organizations worldwide have built websites powered by the DNN Platform.
- Composite C1 - A web CMS that focus on UX and adaptability
- N2CMS - Open source, lightweight, code-first CMS able to seamlessly integrate into any MVC project.
- Orchard - Free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on the ASP.NET platform
- Umbraco - Umbraco is a free open source Content Management System built on the ASP.NET platform
- BetterCMS - Open Source .NET Intuitive User Interface for Developer and Publisher
- Piranha CMS - Piranha is the fun, fast and lightweight .NET framework for developing cms-based web applications with an extra bite. It's built on ASP.NET MVC and Web Pages and is fully compatible with both Visual Studio and WebMatrix. http://piranhacms.org
Code Analysis and Metrics
- StyleCop - StyleCop analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of style and consistency rules
- Codinion - Enhanced syntax highlighting for C# and some other "Visual" features.
- .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") Analyzers - A number of Roslyn diagnostic analyzers initially developed to help flesh out the design and implementation of the static analysis APIs.
- Gendarme - Extensible rule-based tool to find problems in .NET applications and libraries
- Metrics-Net - Capturing CLR and application-level metrics. So you know what's going on.
- AspNet.Metrics - Capturing CLR, application-level web request metrics. Middleware and extensions using Metrics-Net
- BenchmarkDotNet - Powerful .NET library for benchmarking.
- NsDepCop - Static code analysis tool to enforce namespace dependency rules in C# projects.
- App.Metrics - App Metrics is an open-source and cross-platform .NET library used to record and report metrics within an application and reports it's health. See the [docs](http://app-metrics.io/) for me details.
- Codinion - Enhanced syntax highlighting for C# and some other "Visual" features.
Code Snippets
- .NET Fiddle - Write, compile and run C# code in the browser. The C# equivalent of JSFiddle.
- Gistlyn - Create, run and share your executable C# Github Gists.
Compilers, Transpilers and Languages
- FunScript - F# to JavaScript compiler with JQuery etc. mappings through a TypeScript type provider.
- ClojureCLR - A port of Clojure to the CLR, part of the Clojure project
- JSIL - CIL to Javascript Compiler http://jsil.org/
- Mono-basic - Visual Basic Compiler and Runtime
- Nemerle - Nemerle is a high-level statically-typed programming language for the .NET platform. It offers functional, object-oriented and imperative features. It has a simple C#-like syntax and a powerful meta-programming system. http://nemerle.org/About
- Netjs - .NET to TypeScript and JavaScript compiler. Portable Class Libraries work great for this. You can even pass EXEs.
- P - P is a language for asynchronous event-driven programming.
- Roslyn - The .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") provides open-source C# and Visual Basic compilers with rich code analysis APIs. It enables building code analysis tools with the same APIs that are used by Visual Studio.
- Testura.Code - Wrapper around the Roslyn API and used for generation, saving and and compiling C# code. It provides methods and helpers to generate classes, methods, statements and expressions.
- Fable - F# to JavaScript Compiler
- LinqOptimizer - An automatic query optimizer-compiler for Sequential and Parallel LINQ
- Roslyn-linq-rewrite - Compiles C# code by first rewriting the syntax trees of LINQ expressions using plain procedural code, minimizing allocations and dynamic dispatch.
- Bridge.NET - Open Source C# to JavaScript Compiler http://bridge.net/
- F# - The F# compiler, core library and tools - a functional programming language for safer, faster, better code writing.
- FunScript - F# to JavaScript compiler with JQuery etc. mappings through a TypeScript type provider.
- IronScheme - R6RS Scheme compiler, runtime and many standard libraries
Compression
- SharpCompress - SharpCompress is a compression library for .NET/Mono/Silverlight/WP7 that can unrar, un7zip, unzip, untar unbzip2 and ungzip with forward-only reading and file random access APIs. Write support for zip/tar/bzip2/gzip are implemented
- DotNetZip.Semverd - An open-source project that delivers a .NET library for handling ZIP files, and some associated tools. (fork of [**Unmaintained** DotNetZip](http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com))
- SharpZipLib - a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform
- Snappy for Windows - Snappy compression library for .NET baked on PInvoke
- Snappy.Sharp - An implementation of Google's Snappy compression algorithm in C#.
Continuous Integration
- AppVeyor - .NET Continuous Integration and Deployment as a service. **[$]** **[Free for OSS]**
- MyGet - Continuous Integration and Deployment, Hosted Package Repository for NuGet, NPM, Bower and VSIX. **[[Free for OSS](https://www.myget.org/opensource)]** **[$]**
Cryptography
- HashLib - HashLib is a collection of nearly all hash algorithms you've ever seen, it supports almost everything and is very easy to use
- Pkcs11Interop - Managed .NET wrapper for unmanaged PKCS#11 libraries that provide access to the cryptographic hardware
- StreamCryptor - Stream encryption & decryption with libsodium and protobuf
- SecurityDriven.Inferno - .NET crypto library. Professionally audited.
- BouncyCastle - Together with the .Net System.Security.Cryptography, the reference implementation for cryptographic algorithms on the CLR.
Database
- BrightstarDb - BrightstarDB is a native .NET RDF triple store
- Event Store - The open-source, functional database with Complex Event Processing in JavaScript. https://geteventstore.com
- LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file - http://www.litedb.org
- RavenDB - A linq enabled document database for .NET
- Marten - Postgresql as a Document Database and Event Store for .Net Applications
- Realm Xamarin - A fast, easy-to-use alternative to SQLite & ORMs - https://realm.io/docs/xamarin/latest/
- Streamstone - Event store for Azure Table Storage
- Ignite - Distributed in-memory platform: document database with SQL and LINQ support; distributed computations; distributed services and events.
- Yessql - A .NET document database working on any RDBMS
Database Drivers
- MySQL Connector - Connector/Net is a fully-managed ADO.NET driver for MySQL
- Firebird.NET - The .NET Data provider is written in C# and provides a high-performance, native implementation of the Firebird API
- Npgsql - .Net data provider for Postgresql
- MongoDB - Official MongoDB C# Driver
- ServiceStack Redis - .NET's leading C# Redis Client
- StackExchange Redis - General purpose redis client from StackExchange
- Cassandra - DataStax .NET Driver for Apache Cassandra
- Couchbase - Official couchbase .NET client library, based on the Enyim memcached client
- RethinkDb.Driver - A RethinkDB database driver in C# striving for 100% ReQL API compatibility and completeness.
Datetime
- NodaTime - Noda Time is an alternative date and time API for .NET. It helps you to think about your data more clearly, and express operations on that data more precisely. http://nodatime.org/
- DateTimeExtensions - Common Date Time operations on the form of extensions to System.DateTime, including holidays and working days calculations on several culture locales.
- Exceptionless.DateTimeExtensions - DateTimeRange, Business Day and various DateTime, DateTimeOffset, TimeSpan extension methods.
Decompilation
- ILSpy - ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler
- dnSpy - open-source .NET assembly browser, editor, decompiler and debugger
- JustDecompile Engine - The decompilation engine of [JustDecompile](http://www.telerik.com/products/decompiler.aspx)
Deployment
- Unfold - Powershell-based deployment solution for .net web applications
- DbUp - .NET library that helps you to deploy changes to SQL Server databases. It tracks which SQL scripts have been run already, and runs the change scripts that are needed to get your database up to date
- Octo Pack - Used to build nuget packages of your application for deployment using tools such as Octopus Deploy
DirectX
- SlimDX - DirectX framework wrapper for .NET applications
- SlimDX - DirectX framework wrapper for .NET applications
- SlimDX - DirectX framework wrapper for .NET applications
- SharpDX - SharpDX is an open-source project delivering the full DirectX API for .Net on all Windows platforms, allowing the development of high performance game, 2D and 3D graphics rendering as well as realtime sound application.
Distributed Computing
- MBrace - Integrated Data Scripting for the Cloud
- Orleankka - Orleankka is a functional API for Microsoft Orleans framework. It is highly suitable for scenarios where having composable, uniform communication interface is preferable, such as: CQRS, event-sourcing, re-routing, FSM, etc. Additional API avaiable for F# called Orleankka.FSharp.
- Akka.net - Akka.NET is a port of the popular Java/Scala framework Akka to .NET. This is a community driven port and is not affiliated with Typesafe who makes the original Java/Scala version.
- Zebus - Zebus is a lightweight, higlhy versatile, peer to peer service bus, built with CQRS principles in mind. It allows applications to communicate with each other in a fast and easy manner. Most of the complexity is hidden in the library and you can focus on writing code that matters to you, not debugging messaging code. A very fundamental base for any distributed application.
- FsShelter - F# library for authoring [Apache Storm](https://storm.apache.org) components and topologies. Offering high-level abstractions for distributed and fault-tolerant event stream processing.
- protoactor-dotnet - Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Golang and C#
DLR
- cmd - C# library to run external programs in a simpler way. Demonstration of "dynamic" features of C#.
Documentation
- Sandcastle - Sandcastle Help File Builder similar to NDoc
- SharpDox - A c# documentation tool
- SourceBrowser - Source browser website generator that powers https://referencesource.microsoft.com and http://source.roslyn.io
- Swashbuckle - Seamlessly adds a swagger to WebApi projects!
- F# Formatting - Tools for documenting F# and C# projects from F# Script files, Markdown documents and inline XML or Markdown comments
- DocFX - Tools for building and publishing API documentation for .NET projects
- DocNet - Your friendly static documentation generator, using markdown files to build the content.
E-Commerce and Payments
- NopCommerce - nopCommerce. Free open-source ecommerce shopping cart (ASP.NET MVC)
- ServiceStack.Stripe - Typed .NET clients for stripe.com REST APIs
- Stripe.Net - Stripe.net is a full service .net api for https://stripe.com/
- BeYourMarket - BeYourMarket is a peer-to-peer marketplace framework http://beyourmarket.com
- Virto Commerce - Virto Commerce is the second generation release and is the only enterprise level e-commerce product fully available under Open Source license. Virto Commerce is based on .NET 4.5 with extensive use of MVC, IoC, EF, Azure, Angular JS and many other cutting edge technologies. It can be deployed in Microsoft Cloud (Azure), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on-premise. https://virtocommerce.com
- SimplCommerce - Super simple ecommerce system built on .NET Core. Simple to use and easy to customize. Thanks to .NET Core, you can run the SimplCommerce on Windows, Linux. With various RDBMS: Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Paypal Merchant SDK - Official Paypal Merchant SDK for .NET
Environment Management
- Dotnet CLI - The cross-platform .NET Core command line toolchain utility.
ETL
- Reactive ETL - Reactive ETL is a rewrite of Rhino ETL using the reactive extensions for .NET
Exceptions
- Exceptionless - Exceptionless .NET Client
Extensions
- Z.ExtensionMethods - Over a 1000 useful extension methods
Functional programming
- language-ext - This library uses and abuses the features of C# 6+ to provide a functional 'Base class library', that, if you squint, can look like extensions to the language itself. It also includes an 'Erlang like' process system (actors) that can optionally persist messages and state to Redis (note you can use it without Redis for in-app messaging). The process system additionally supports Rx streams of messages and state allowing for a complete system of reactive events and message dispatch.
- Optional - A robust option type for C#
Game
- Wave Engine - Wave engine is a free c# component-based modern game engine which allows you to create cross-platform games supporting kinect, oculusrift, vuforia, cardboard, leapmotion and much more. **[Free][Proprietary]**
- MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games
- CocosSharp - CocosSharp is a C# implementation of the Cocos2D and Cocos3D APIs that runs on any platform where MonoGame runs
- Duality - Duality is a 2D game development framework. Focused on modularity, comes with a visual editor.
- Wave Engine - Wave engine is a free c# component-based modern game engine which allows you to create cross-platform games supporting kinect, oculusrift, vuforia, cardboard, leapmotion and much more. **[Free][Proprietary]**
- UrhoSharp - UrhoSharp is a C# implementation of the Urho3D game engine that runs on iOS, Mac, Windows, Android and Linux systems
- Nez - Nez is a free 2D focused framework that works with MonoGame and FNA
GIS
- SharpMap - to-use mapping library for use in web and desktop applications
- OsmSharp - C# library to work with OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. Provides reading, writing and route-planning for OSM data.
- NetTopologySuite
- NetTopologySuite
- GeoJSON4EntityFramework - A library to create GeoJSON from Entity Framework Spatial Data or Well-Known Text (WKT) inputs.
Git Tools
- Bonobo Git Server - Bonobo Git Server for Windows is a web application you can install on your IIS and easily manage and connect to your git repositories. https://bonobogitserver.com/
- GitExtensions - GitExtensions is a shell extension, a Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012/2013 plugin and a standalone Git repository tool. http://gitextensions.github.io/
- GitLink - let's users step through their code hosted on GitHub or BitBucket
- GitVersion - Generate a Semantic Version Number based on the state of your Git Repository
- LibGit2Sharp - LibGit2Sharp brings all the might and speed of libgit2, a native Git implementation, to the managed world of .Net and Mono.
- NGit - NGit is a port of JGit to C#
- posh-git - A PowerShell environment for Git
- Git Credential Manager for Windows - Helps solving issues of credentials, made by Microsoft
Graphics
- LibTessDotNet - .NET port of the famous GLU Tessellator, triangulates polygons
- Oxyplot - OxyPlot is a cross-platform plotting library for .NET
- OpenTK - The Open Toolkit is an advanced, low-level C# library that wraps OpenGL, OpenCL and OpenAL
- NGraphics - NGraphics is a cross-platform library for rendering vector graphics on .NET
GUI
- DockPanelSuite - The Visual Studio inspired docking library for .NET WinForms
- Office Ribbon - A library that implements MS Office Ribbon for WinForms.
- MahApps.Metro - Toolkit for creating Metro styled WPF apps

Programming Languages

C# 264 F# 14 C++ 5 JavaScript 5 HTML 4 PowerShell 4 Visual Basic 1 Java 1 Nemerle 1 Visual Basic .NET 1

awesome-dotnet

Algorithms and Data structures

API

Application Frameworks

Application Templates

Artificial Intelligence

Assembly Manipulation

Assets

Authentication and Authorization

Books

Build Automation

Caching

CLI

CLR

CMS

Code Analysis and Metrics

Code Snippets

Compilers, Transpilers and Languages

Compression

Continuous Integration

Cryptography

Database

Database Drivers

Datetime

Decompilation

Deployment

DirectX

Distributed Computing

DLR

Documentation

E-Commerce and Payments

Environment Management

ETL

Exceptions

Extensions

Functional programming

Game

GIS

Git Tools

Graphics

GUI