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A collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks and software
https://github.com/eric-erki/awesome-dotnet

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  • 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.

  • Cryptography

    • libsodium-net - libsodium for .NET - A secure cryptographic library
    • 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.
    • HashLib - HashLib is a collection of nearly all hash algorithms you've ever seen, it supports almost everything and is very easy to use
    • BouncyCastle - Together with the .Net System.Security.Cryptography, the reference implementation for cryptographic algorithms on the CLR.

  • 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

    • Telegram.Bot - .NET Client for [Telegram Bot API](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api)
    • TLSharp - It's a perfect fit for any developer who would like to send data directly to Telegram users or write own custom Telegram client.
    • 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
    • Ocelot - .NET core API Gateway
    • Breeze - API framework enabling rich data access by using the OData 3 protocol. Client libraries available for JavaScript and C#.
    • Xamarin.Essentials - Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications.
    • ASP.NET Web API - Framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices

  • Application Frameworks

    • .NET Boxed Framework - .NET Core Extensions and Helper NuGet packages
    • ASP.NET Boilerplate - A starting point for new modern ASP.NET MVC web applications with best practices and most popular tools.
    • ABP - The next generation of the ASP.NET Boilerplate web application framework.
    • 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.
    • CSLA .NET - business layer development framework https://cslanet.com/
    • Mono - Open source ECMA CLI, C#, F#, VB 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.
    • AspectCore Framework - AspectCore Framework is an Aspect-Oriented Programming based cross platform framework for .NET Core and .NET Framework. Core support for aspect-interceptor,dependency injection integration , web applications , data validation , and more.
    • HopFramework - HopFramework is a framework to create projects easily applying Domain Driven Design and a lot of patterns to delivery a better solution.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • 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
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Butterfly Server .NET - Enables defining a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients. Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort.
    • Ether.Network - Ether.Network is an open source networking library that allow developers to create simple, fast and scalable socket server or client applications over the TCP/IP protocol.

  • Application Templates

    • .NET Boxed Templates - .NET project templates with batteries included, providing the minimum amount of code required to get you going faster.
    • 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.
    • Nucleus - Vue startup application template that uses ASP.NET Core API layered architecture at the back-end and JWT based authentication
    • 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.

  • Assembly Manipulation

    • Fody - Extensible tool for weaving .NET assemblies.
    • ILRepack - Open-source alternative to ILMerge.
    • Mono.Cecil - Cecil is a library to generate and inspect programs and libraries in the ECMA CIL form.

  • Assets

    • 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 Node.js compilers
    • Bundle Transformer - Modular extension for [Microsoft ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization). Its modules supports LESS, Sass, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Mustache, Handlebars, Autoprefixer along with a bunch of different JS and CSS minifiers.
    • 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

    • DotNetOpenAuth - A C# implementation of the OpenID, OAuth and InfoCard protocols
    • 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#
    • Stuntman - Stuntman is a library for impersonating users during development leveraging .NET Claims Identity.
    • Logibit Hawk - A F# [Hawk](https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk#usage-example) authentication library
    • ASP.NET Identity - New membership system for ASP.NET applications

  • Blockchain

  • 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
    • Nuke - Cross-platform build automation system
    • FAKE - F# Make, a cross-platform build automation system
    • MSBuild - The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio
    • FlubuCore - A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code.

  • Business Intelligence

    • FastReport - The open source report generator for .NET Core 2.x/.Net Framework 4.x. FastReport can be used in ASP.NET MVC, Web API applications.
    • NReco PivotData - in-memory data aggregation/OLAP library, pivot tables generation (render to HTML, exports), ASP.NET pivot builder control **[$][Free for single-deployment/non-SaaS]**

  • Caching

    • CacheCow - An ASP.NET Web API HTTP caching implementation both on client and server
    • Akavache - An asynchronous, persistent key-value store
    • CacheManager - A common interface and abstraction layer for caching.
    • Cashew - a .NET library for caching responses easily with an `HttpClient` through an API that is simple and elegant yet powerful.

  • CLI

    • Argu - Declarative CLI argument & XML configuration parser for F# applications.
    • 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.
    • CliWrap - Wrapper for command line interfaces.
    • Colorful.Console - Colorful console output.
    • 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
    • CsConsoleFormat - .NET C# library for advanced formatting of console output.
    • Docopt - Command-line interface description language that will make you smile.
    • EntryPoint - Composable CLI Argument Parser for .NET Core & .NET Framework 4.5+.
    • 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
    • ReadLine - A GNU-Readline like library for .NET/.NET Core.
    • RunInfoBuilder - A unique command line parser, utilizing object trees for commands.
    • SharpNetSH - A simple netsh library for C#.
    • 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
    • Gui.cs - Terminal UI toolkit for .NET.

  • 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.

  • CMS

    • Composite C1 - A web CMS that focus on UX and adaptability
    • mojoPortal - MojoPortal is an extensible, cross database, mobile friendly, web content management system (CMS) and web application framework written in C# ASP.NET
    • 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
    • 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.
    • BetterCMS - Open Source .NET Intuitive User Interface for Developer and Publisher
    • BlogEngine.NET - Simple but full featured ASP.NET blog

  • Code Analysis and Metrics

    • .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.
    • 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](https://www.app-metrics.io/) for me details.
    • 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.
    • CodeMaid - Visual studio extension to cleanup, dig through and simplify C#, C++, F#, VB, PHP, JSON, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, JavaScript and TypeScript coding.
    • 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. **[$]**

  • Compilers, Transpilers and Languages

    • ClojureCLR - A port of Clojure to the CLR, part of the Clojure project
    • JSIL - CIL to JavaScript Compiler http://jsil.org/
    • Mond - A dynamically typed scripting language written in C# with a REPL, debugger, and simple embedding API.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • PeachPie - PeachPie is a PHP compiler and runtime for .NET and .NET Core, which allows entire PHP applications to run on the modern, secure and performant .NET and .NET Core platforms.
    • 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 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.
    • Iron python - A python 2 implementation that is integrated with the dot net framework.
    • Hybridizer - CIL (C#, VB.Net, F#) to CUDA compiler. **[$]**
    • Bridge.NET - Open Source C# to JavaScript Compiler https://bridge.net/
    • F# - The F# compiler, core library and tools - a functional programming language for safer, faster, better code writing.

  • 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](https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=dotnetzip))
    • SharpZipLib - a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform
    • Snappy.Sharp - An implementation of Google's Snappy compression algorithm in C#.
    • Snappy for Windows - Snappy compression library for .NET baked on P/Invoke

  • Database

    • BrightstarDb - BrightstarDB is a native .NET RDF triple store
    • Event Store - The open-source, functional database with Complex Event Processing in JavaScript. https://eventstore.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/dotnet/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
    • JsonFlatFileDataStore - Simple JSON flat file data store with support for typed and dynamic data
    • LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file - https://www.litedb.org

  • Database Drivers

    • 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
    • Storage.Net - Generic storage abstractions and implementations for popular cloud storage providers like Amazon S3, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hub, Azure Storage, Azure Data Lake Store and many others.
    • 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

  • 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. https://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.

  • 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

    • 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 real-time sound application.

  • Distributed Computing

    • 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, highly 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.
    • MBrace - Integrated Data Scripting for the Cloud
    • Foundatio - Pluggable foundation blocks for building distributed apps.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • Swashbuckle - Seamlessly adds a Swagger to Web API projects.

  • E-Commerce and Payments

    • NopCommerce - nopCommerce. Free open-source e-commerce shopping cart (ASP.NET Core)
    • ServiceStack.Stripe - Typed .NET clients for stripe.com REST APIs
    • Stripe.Net - Stripe.net is a full service .NET API for https://stripe.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, AngularJS 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
    • GrandNode - GrandNode is a functional cross-platform e-commerce solution developed for the most demanding users. You are able to run it on any system - Linux, Windows, Mac. GrandNode supports Docker, so you can install it with Docker for Linux containers. Scalable e-commerce solution which can be adapted in any company independently from company size or industry.
    • Square - The official SDK for Square payments and other Square APIs.

  • Environment Management

    • Dotnet CLI - The cross-platform .NET Core command-line toolchain utility.

  • ETL

    • Cinchoo ETL - ETL Framework for .NET (Read / Write CSV, Flat, Xml, JSON, Key-Value formatted files)
    • Reactive ETL - Reactive ETL is a rewrite of Rhino ETL using the reactive extensions for .NET

  • Event aggregator and messenger

    • Mediator.Net - A simple mediator for .NET for sending command, publishing event and request response with pipelines supported
    • MediatR - Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET
    • TinyMessenger - A lightweight event aggregator/messenger for loosely coupled communication.
    • Xer.Cqrs - A simple library for creating applications based on the CQRS pattern with support for attribute routing and hosted handlers. Developed in C# targeting .NET Standard 1.0.
    • Rx Event Aggregator - Super-simple Reactive-Extension code from Reactive.EventAggregator

  • Exceptions

  • Extensions

  • 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

    • 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.
    • 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
    • BEPUphysics - BEPUphysics is a pure C# 3D physics library
    • Wave Engine - Wave engine is a free C# component-based modern game engine which allows you to create cross-platform games supporting Kinect, Oculus Rift, Vuforia, Cardboard, Leap Motion and much more. **[Free][Proprietary]**
    • Wave Engine - Wave engine is a free C# component-based modern game engine which allows you to create cross-platform games supporting Kinect, Oculus Rift, Vuforia, Cardboard, Leap Motion and much more. **[Free][Proprietary]**
    • Xenko - Xenko is a 2D/3D cross-platform game engine featuring a scene editor, particles, physically based rendering (PBR), scripting, and much more

  • GIS

    • GeoJSON4EntityFramework - A library to create GeoJSON from Entity Framework Spatial Data or Well-Known Text (WKT) inputs.
    • GeoJSON.NET - .Net library for GeoJSON types & corresponding Json.Net (de)serializers
    • CoordinateSharp - Easily parse or convert coordinate formats and calculate location based solar/lunar information.
    • 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

  • 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. https://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.
    • GitRead.Net - GitRead.Net is a .NET Standard library which allows you to very easily interrogate a Git repository that you have on disk. It allows you to enumerate the commit log, count lines per file and list files changed by a commit.
    • NGit - NGit is a port of JGit to C#
    • posh-git - A PowerShell environment for Git
    • RepoZ - A Git repository information aggregator with Windows Explorer & CLI-enhancements
    • Git Credential Manager for Windows - Helps solving issues of credentials, made by Microsoft

  • Graphics

    • LibTessDotNet - .NET port of the famous GLU Tessellator, triangulates polygons
    • 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
    • Live-Charts - An Animated, MVVM oriented and modern charting library
    • AssimpNet - A cross-platform .NET Standard wrapper for the Open Asset Importer ("Assimp"). The library enables importing, processing, and exporting of 3D models for rendering in graphics/game applications. Over 40 formats are supported for importing (e.g. OBJ, FBX, GLTF, 3DS, Collada) and a subset of those formats can be exported to (e.g. OBJ, GLTF, 3DS, Collada). Mesh processing features allow for mesh data to be generated or optimized for real-time rendering.
    • Oxyplot - OxyPlot is a cross-platform plotting library for .NET
    • Helix Toolkit - Helix Toolkit is a collection of 3D components for .NET

  • GUI

    • HandyControl - Contains some simple and commonly used WPF controls
    • QtSharp - Mono/.NET Bindings for Qt
    • Qml.Net - A cross-platform Qml/.NET integration for Mono/.NET/.NET Core
    • MahApps.Metro - Toolkit for creating Metro-styled WPF apps
    • Callisto - A control toolkit for Windows 8 XAML applications. Contains some UI controls to make it easier to create Windows UI style apps for the Windows Store in accordance with Windows UI guidelines.
    • DockPanelSuite - The Visual Studio inspired docking library for .NET WinForms
    • MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit - Toolkit for creating Material Design styled WPF apps
    • UWP Community Toolkit - The UWP Community Toolkit is a collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building UWP apps for Windows 10.
    • AvalonEdit - The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop
    • XWT - A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop applications with .NET and Mono
    • Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono
    • MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit - Toolkit for creating Material Design styled WPF apps
    • Eto.Forms - Cross-platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET and Mono
    • Dragablz - Dragable, tearable WPF tab control (similar to Chrome) which supports layouts and is full themeable, including themese compatible with MahApps and Material Design.
    • Fluent.Ribbon - Fluent Ribbon Control Suite is a library that implements an Office- and Windows 8-like Ribbon for WPF.
    • Office Ribbon - A library that implements MS Office Ribbon for WinForms.
    • MaterialSkin - Theming .NET WinForms, C# or VB.Net, to Google's Material Design principles.
    • Xamarin.Forms - Build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows from a single, shared C# codebase.
    • SciterSharp - Create .NET cross-platform desktop apps using not just HTML, but all features of Sciter engine: CSS3, SVG, scripting, AJAX, <video>... Sciter is free for commercial use
    • ScintillaNET - Windows Forms control for the Scintilla text editor component (Scintilla is used by Notepad++)
    • FastColoredTextBox - Fast Colored TextBox is text editor component for .NET. Allows you to create custom text editor with syntax highlighting. It works well with small, medium, large and very-very large files.
    • Avalonia - A multi-platform .NET UI framework (formerly known as Perspex).
    • Modern UI for WPF - MUI - Set of controls and styles to convert WPF applications into a great looking Modern UI apps.
    • WinApi - A simple, direct, ultra-thin CLR library for high-performance Win32 Native Interop with automation, windowing, DirectX, OpenGL and Skia helpers.
    • Neutronium - Build .NET desktop applications using HTML, CSS, javascript and MVVM bindings such as with WPF.
    • Ooui - A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web
    • AdonisUI - Lightweight UI toolkit for WPF applications offering classic but enhanced Windows visuals.
    • ObjectListView - ObjectListView is a C# wrapper around a .NET ListView. It makes the ListView much easier to use and teaches it some new tricks

  • IDE

    • Rider - A cross-platform C# IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper
    • Visual Studio Express - The free lightweight version of Visual Studio for .NET programming.
    • Visual Studio Community - A full-featured IDE
    • Visual Studio Code - Excellent open source editor from Microsoft, based on Electron.
    • AvalonStudio - An extensible, cross platform IDE written in C# for Embedded C/C++, .NET Core, Avalonia and Typescript
    • SharpDevelop - A free IDE for .NET programming languages
    • MonoDevelop - MonoDevelop is a cross-platform IDE mostly aimed at Mono/.NET developers
    • Waf DotNetPad - A simple and fast code editor that makes fun program with C# or Visual Basic.
    • RoslynPad - A simple C# editor based on Roslyn and AvalonEdit.

  • Code Snippets

    • .NET Fiddle - Write, compile and run C#, F# and VB code in the browser. The .Net equivalent of JSFiddle.
    • Gistlyn - Create, run and share your executable C# GitHub Gists.
    • TryRoslyn - Run C# code using different branches and versions of Roslyn.

  • HTML and CSS

    • HtmlAgilityPack - an agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPath or XSLT
    • FluentBootstrap - Makes the Bootstrap CSS framework easier to use from ASP.NET MVC or WebPages.
    • AngleSharp - Complete HTML5 DOM and CSS3 OM construction
    • dotless - .NET port of the Ruby Less CSS lib http://www.dotlesscss.org
    • ExCSS - CSS3 parser library for C#
    • LibSass Host - .NET wrapper around the [libSass](https://sass-lang.com/libsass) library with the ability to support a virtual file system
    • LtGt - lightweight HTML processor, can be used to parse and navigate DOM, handles CSS selectors, can convert to Linq2Xml, easily extensible, and more.

  • Continuous Integration

    • TeamCity - Ready to work, extensible and developer-friendly build server — out of the box **[$]**
    • AppVeyor - .NET Continuous Integration and Deployment as a service. **[$]** **[Free for OSS]**
    • MyGet - Continuous Integration and Deployment, Hosted Package Repository for NuGet, NPM, Bower and VSIX **[$]**

  • Decompilation

    • ILSpy - ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler
    • dotPeek - Free-of-charge standalone tool based on ReSharper's bundled decompiler. It can reliably decompile any .NET assembly into equivalent C# or IL code. It can create Visual Studio solutions based on the original binary files in a straight-forward way. **[Proprietary]** **[Free]**
    • dnSpy - open-source .NET assembly browser, editor, decompiler and debugger

  • Image Processing

    • ImageResizer - Add commands to image URLs to get altered versions in milliseconds. Resizing, editing etc of images in real-time.
    • DynamicImage - High-performance open-source image manipulation library for ASP.NET.
    • Emgu CV - Cross-platform .NET wrapper for the OpenCV library.
    • ImageProcessor - Open-source .NET library to manipulate images on-the-fly.
    • ImageSharp - Fully managed cross-platform library for processing of image files.
    • MetadataExtractor - Extracts Exif, IPTC, XMP, ICC and other metadata from image files.
    • Emgu CV - Cross-platform .NET wrapper for the OpenCV library.
    • DotImaging - Minimalistic .NET imaging portable platform
    • Magick.NET - .NET wrapper for the ImageMagick library.
    • TeximpNet - A cross-platform .NET Standard library for reading/manipulating/writing image files. The primary focus is to create 2D/3D/Cubemap textures for graphics/game applications, notably to convert images to GPU compressed formats and generate mipmaps. The library wraps the FreeImage native library to import/export over 30 common image formats, and wraps the Nvidia Texture Tools native library for GPU compression features. It also has a fully featured DDS format importer/exporter written in C#.
    • Colourful - Open source .NET library for working with color spaces.
    • OpenCvSharp - Cross platform wrapper of OpenCV for .NET Framework.

  • 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. **[$]**
    • Dependency Injection in .NET - injection-principles-practices-patterns) - teaches you to use Dependency Injection to reduce hard-coded dependencies between application components in .NET. **[$]**
    • ASP.NET Core in Action - teaches how to write web applications with ASP.NET Core. **[$]**
    • Entity Framework Core in Action - teaches how to use Entity Framework Core, including lighter weight data access alternatives such as Dapper. **[$]**
    • The Little ASP.NET Core Book - A free, open-source, tutorial-based book aiming to provide a simple introduction to ASP.NET Core.
    • Lucene.net - Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users
    • Elasticsearch .NET - Elasticsearch.Net & NEST
    • PlainElastic.Net - Plain .NET client for ElasticSearch
    • SolrNet - Solr client for .NET
    • SolrExpress - A simple and lightweight query .NET library for Solr, in a controlled, buildable and fail fast way

  • ORM

    • NHibernate - NHibernate Object Relational Mapper
    • Dapper.FastCRUD - The fastest micro-ORM extension for Dapper
    • Entity Framework Core - Object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects
    • Dapper - A simple object mapper for .NET by [StackExchange](https://stackexchange.github.io/)
    • Dapper Extensions - Small library that complements Dapper by adding basic CRUD operations (Get, Insert, Update, Delete) for your POCOs
    • FluentMigrator - Fluent Migrations framework for .net
    • ServiceStack.OrmLite - Light, simple and fast convention-based POCO ORM **[[Free for OSS](https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite/blob/master/license.txt)]** **[$]**
    • Massive - A small, happy, data access tool that will love you forever.
    • LINQ to DB - The fastest LINQ database access library offering a simple, light, fast, and type-safe layer between your POCO objects and your database.
    • PetaPoco - A tiny ORM-ish thing for your POCOs
    • AsyncPoco - A long-"awaited" fully asynchronous PetaPoco fork
    • NPoco - Simple microORM that maps the results of a query onto a POCO object. Based on Schotime's branch of PetaPoco
    • Limebean - Hybrid ORM which uses SQL fragments and doesn't require Model Classes.
    • Insight.Database - Insight.Database is a fast, lightweight, micro-ORM for .NET
    • DbExtensions - Data-access framework with a strong focus on query composition, granularity and code aesthetics.
    • RepoDb - A dynamic, lightweight, efficient and very fast Hybrid ORM library for .NET.
    • Entity Framework 6 - Object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects
    • Fluent NHibernate - Fluent, XML-less, compile safe, automated, convention-based mappings for NHibernate.
    • SmartSql - SmartSql = MyBatis + Cache（Memory | Redis）+ ZooKeeper + R / W Splitting + Dynamic Repository ....

  • Package Management

    • NuGet - The .NET package manager
    • Sleet - A NuGet v3 static feed generator with support for AWS S3 and Azure Storage
    • Paket - A package dependency manager for .NET with support for NuGet packages and GitHub repositories. https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/

  • Scheduling

    • Hangfire - An easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring tasks inside .NET apps
    • FluentScheduler - Task scheduler with fluent interface that runs automated jobs from your application
    • NCrontab - Class library for parsing & formatting [crontab](http://crontab.org/) expressions as well as calculating occurrences of time based on a crontab schedule
    • QuartzNet - Quartz Enterprise Scheduler .NET
    • Chroniton - A simple, fully integrable, and customizable library for running strongly typed jobs (tasks) on schedules.
    • DurableTask - This framework allows users to write long running persistent workflows in C# using the async/await capabilities.
    • Wexflow - An extensible workflow engine with a cross-platform manager and designer.
    • Workflow Core - Lightweight embeddable workflow engine

  • Protocols

    • SharpSnmpLib - An open source SNMP implementation for .NET/Mono/Xamarin. Versioin 1, 2c, and 3 are supported.
    • SSH.NET - A Secure Shell (SSH) library for .NET, optimized for parallelism. Provides SSH commands, SFTP/SCP uploads and downloads, and SOCKS4/SOCKS5/HTTP proxies.
    • FluentFTP - An FTP and FTPS library for .NET, optimized for speed. Provides extensive FTP commands, file uploads/downloads and FTP proxies.
    • DNS - A library for parsing and serializing DNS messages. Includes a basic DNS client and server.
    • SharpSnmpLib - An open source SNMP implementation for .NET/Mono/Xamarin. Versioin 1, 2c, and 3 are supported.

  • Install tools

    • Wax - An interactive editor for WiX projects.
    • Squirrel - Squirrel is both a set of tools and a library, to completely manage both installation and updating your desktop Windows application.
    • Chocolatey - like `yum` or `apt-get`, but for Windows.
    • Onova - An unopinionated auto-update framework for desktop applications.

  • Logging

    • ELMAH - Official ELMAH site
    • Logary - Logary is a high performance, multi-target logging, metric, tracing and health-check library for Mono and .NET. .NET's answer to DropWizard. Supports many targets, built for micro-services.
    • Log4Net - The Apache log4net library is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets
    • BugSnag - Logs errors. Includes useful diagnostic info like stack trace, session, release, etc. Has a free tier. **[Free for OSS][$]**
    • NLog - NLog - Advanced .NET and Silverlight logging
    • Essential Diagnostics - Extends the inbuilt features of System.Diagnostics namespace to provide flexible logging
    • Logazmic - Open source NLog viewer for Windows
    • Elmah MVC - Elmah for MVC
    • Sentry - .NET SDK for [Sentry](https://sentry.io/welcome/) Open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time..
    • Serilog - A no-nonsense logging library for the NoSQL era. Combines the best of traditional and structured diagnostic logging in an easy-to-use package.
    • StackExchange.Exceptional - Error handler used for the Stack Exchange network
    • Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB) - Extends the inbuilt features of System.Diagnostics.Tracing namespace (EventSource class) to log to several sinks including Azure Tables, Databases, files (JSON, XML, text). Supports in-process and out-of-process logging through ETW, and Rx for real-time filtering/aggregating of events.

  • MVVM

    • UpdateControls - Update Controls does not require that you implement `INotifyPropertyChanged` or declare a `DependencyProperty`. It connects controls directly to CLR properties. This makes it perfect for the Model/View/ViewModel pattern.
    • Catel - Catel is an application development platform with the focus on MVVM (WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone and WinRT) and MVC (ASP.NET MVC). The core of Catel contains an IoC container, models, validation, memento, message mediator, argument checking, etc.
    • ReactiveUI - An MVVM framework for .NET that integrates the Reactive Extensions (Rx) framework, enabling developers to build elegant, testable applications using WPF, Windows Store Apps, WP8 or Xamarin.
    • Caliburn.Micro - A small, yet powerful framework, designed for building applications across all XAML platforms. Its strong support for MV* patterns will enable you to build your solution quickly, without the need to sacrifice code quality or testability.
    • MVVM Light Toolkit - The main purpose of the toolkit is to accelerate the creation and development of MVVM applications in WPF, Silverlight, Windows Store (RT) and for Windows Phone
    • Prism - A cross-platform desktop and mobile MVVM development framework.
    • Win Application Framework (WAF) - A lightweight Framework that helps you to create well structured WPF and UWP Applications. It supports you in applying a Layered Architecture and the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.
    • MVVMCross - Cross-platform mvvm mobile development framework for WPF, Silverlight for WP7 and WP8, Mono for Android, MonoTouch for iOS, Windows Universal projects (WPA8.1 and Windows 8.1 Store apps). Makes extensive use of Portable Class Libraries (PCL) to provide maintainable cross platform C# native applications.
    • Gemini - IDE framework similar in concept to the Visual Studio Shell. Built on WPF, AvalonDock, and Caliburn Micro.
    • Toms Toolbox - Visual Composition framework to easily build modularized MVVM applications based on the [Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/mef/index).
    • MVVM Dialogs - Framework simplifying the concept of opening dialogs from a view model when using MVVM in WPF or UWP.
    • Stylet - Minimal MVVM framework inspired by Caliburn Micro, with good documentation, high test coverage, and its own IoC container

  • Machine Learning and Data Science

    • Accord.NET - Machine learning framework combined with audio and image processing libraries (computer vision, computer audition, signal processing and statistics).
    • FsLab - A collection of data science and machine learning libraries for F# and .NET
    • Infer.NET - A framework for running Bayesian inference in graphical models. It can also be used for probabilistic programming.
    • Accord.NET - Machine learning framework combined with audio and image processing libraries (computer vision, computer audition, signal processing and statistics).
    • Accord.NET Extensions - Advanced image processing and computer vision algorithms made as fluent extensions.
    • Catalyst - platform Natural Language Processing (NLP) library inspired by spaCy, with pre-trained models, out-of-the box support for training word and document embeddings, and flexible entity recognition models. Part of the [SciSharp Stack](https://scisharp.github.io/SciSharp/)
    • Deedle - Data frame and (time) series library for exploratory data manipulation with C# and F# support
    • GeneticSharp - Multi-platform genetic algorithm library for .NET Core and .NET Framework. The library has several implementations of GA operators, like: selection, crossover, mutation, reinsertion and termination.
    • numl - Designed to include the most popular supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms while minimizing the friction involved with creating the predictive models.
    • ML.NET - Cross-platform open-source machine learning framework which makes machine learning accessible to .NET developers.
    • R Provider - Type provider that exposes R packages and functions in a type-safe way to F# callers
    • SciSharp STACK - A rich machine learning ecosystem for .NET created by porting the most popular Python libraries to C#.

  • Markdown Processors

    • MarkdownSharp - Open source C# implementation of Markdown processor, as featured on Stack Overflow.
    • CommonMark.NET - Implementation of CommonMark specification in C# for converting Markdown documents to HTML. Optimized for maximum performance and portability.
    • markdig - A fast, powerful, CommonMark compliant, extensible Markdown processor for .NET.

  • Mathematics

    • MathNet - Math.NET is an open source initiative to build and maintain toolkits covering fundamental mathematics, targetting advanced but also every day needs of .NET developers
    • Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout - A set of tools for graph layout and viewing.
    • UnitConversion - Expansible Unit Conversion Library for .NET Core and .NET Framework
    • AutoDiff - AutoDiff is a library for quickly computing gradients of functions defined by expressions. Mainly useful in numerical optimization
    • GeometRi - Simple and lightweight computational geometry library for .Net
    • Rationals - Implementation of rational number arithmetic for .NET with arbitrary precision.
    • ALGLIB - ALGLIB is a cross-platform numerical analysis and data processing library. It supports several programming languages (C++, C#, Delphi) and several operating systems (Windows and POSIX, including Linux) **[Proprietary]** and **[Free Edition]**

  • Misc

    • CSharp Pad - A web-based C# REPL with awesome code completion.
    • CSScript - CS-Script is a CLR based scripting system which uses C# as a programming language. CS-Script currently targets Microsoft implementation of CLR (.NET 2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5) with full support on Mono. Comes with many additional features, such as script hosting.
    • MSBuild ILMerge task - MSBuild ILMerge task is a NuGet package allows you to use the famous ILMerge utility in automated builds and/or Visual Studio projects.
    • AzureCrawler - Take HTML Snapshots for your Angular, Ember, Durandal or any JavaScript applications
    • CsvHelper - Library to help reading and writing CSV files https://github.com/JoshClose/CsvHelper
    • ConsoleTableExt - Fluent library to create table for .Net console application.
    • FlatMapper - A library to import and export data from and to plain text files in a LINQ-compatible way.
    • FluentValidation - A small validation library for .NET that uses a fluent interface and lambda expressions for building validation rules.
    • Guard - A high-performance, extensible argument validation library.
    • Valit - Valit is dead simple, fluent validation for .NET Core.
    • Humanizer - Humanizer meets all your .NET needs for manipulating and displaying strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities
    • Polly - Express transient-exception-handling and resilience policies such as Retry, Wait-and-Retry, Circuit Breaker, and Bulkhead Isolation in a fluent manner. Fully thread-safe and full async support. (4.0 / 4.5 / .NET Core / .NET Standard / Xamarin).
    • ScriptCS - Write C# apps with a text editor, NuGet and the power of Roslyn!
    • Shielded - Software Transactional Memory (STM) implementation for .NET
    • ReactJS.NET - ReactJS.NET is a library that makes it easier to use Babel along with Facebook's React and JSX from C#.
    • Aeron.NET - Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport - .NET port of Aeron
    • TypeShape - TypeShape is a small, extensible F# library for practical generic programming
    • Streams - A lightweight F#/C# library for efficient functional-style pipelines on streams of data.
    • Warden - Define "health checks" for your applications, resources and infrastructure. Keep your Warden on the watch
    • ByteSize - ByteSize is a utility class that makes byte size representation in code easier by removing ambiguity of the value being represented. ByteSize is to bytes what System.TimeSpan is to time.
    • Jot - a library for persisting and restoring application state (a better alternative to .settings files).
    • Enums.NET - Enums.NET is a high-performance type-safe .NET enum utility library
    • HidLibrary - This library enables you to enumerate and communicate with Hid compatible USB devices in .NET.
    • SystemWrapper - SystemWrapper is .NET library for easier testing of system APIs.
    • YoutubeExplode - Ultimate library for extracting metadata and downloading Youtube videos and playlists.
    • DeviceId - Generate a 'device ID' that can be used to uniquely identify a computer.
    • DeviceDetector.NET - The Universal Device Detection library will parse any User Agent and detect the browser, operating system, device used (desktop, tablet, mobile, tv, cars, console, etc.), brand and model.
    • Coravel - zero config .NET Core library that makes Task Scheduling, Caching, Queuing, Mailing, Event Broadcasting (and more) a breeze!
    • LINQPad - a C#/VB/F# scratchpad that instantly executes any expression, statement block or program with rich output formatting and a wealth of features. Also lets you interactively query databases in LINQ. [$]

  • State machines

    • Appccelerate - State Machine - A powerful state machine library - configured with a fluent API and synchrounous and asynchronous state transition support
    • Stateless - Create state machines and lightweight state machine-based workflows directly in .NET code
    • Automatonymous - A state machine library for .NET - allows you to write fluent style state machines
    • LiquidState - Efficient asynchronous and synchronous state machines for .NET

  • Static Site Generators

    • Wyam - A simple to use, highly modular, and extremely configurable static content generator
    • FsBlog - Blog aware, static site generation using F#
    • FsBlog - Blog aware, static site generation using F#
    • Pretzel - A site generation tool (and then some) for .NET platforms
    • Sandra.Snow - Jekyll-inspired static site generation for .NET

  • Style Guide

  • Testing

    • NCrunch - An automated continuous & concurrent testing tool for Visual Studio. **[$]**
    • NSubstitute - A friendly substitute for .NET mocking frameworks
    • AutoFixture - AutoFixture is an open source framework for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase of your unit tests
    • BDDfy - BDDfy is the simplest BDD framework EVER!
    • Bogus - A simple and sane fake data generator for C#. Based on and ported from the famed faker.js.
    • ExpressionToCode - Use plain C# syntax in assertions that include both the expression expression and subexpression values in the failure message.
    • FakeItEasy - The easy mocking library for .NET https://fakeiteasy.github.io
    • Fluent Assertions - A set of .NET extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style test
    • FluentAutomation - Simple Fluent API for UI Automation
    • FsCheck - Random Testing for .NET.
    • Fuchu - A unit-testing library for F# with tests-as-values which makes DSLs extemely easy to create.
    • Machine.Specifications - Machine.Specifications (MSpec) is a context/specification framework that removes language noise and simplifies tests.
    • NFluent - NFluent is an assertion library which aims to fluent your .NET TDD experience.
    • NUnit - A unit-testing framework for all .NET languages
    • Rhino Mocks - Dynamic Mocking Framework for .NET
    • Shouldly - Shouldly is an assertion framework which focuses on giving great error messages when the assertion fails while being simple and terse.
    • Stryker.NET - Mutation testing for .NET Core projects
    • xUnit.net - A free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework. [https://xunit.github.io/](https://xunit.github.io/)
    • Canopy - Canopy is a free, open source F# web automation and testing framework
    • Expecto - A smooth testing framework for F# with tests as values. Unit testing, property based testing, performance testing and stress testing.
    • Compare-Net-Objects - Perform a deep compare of any two .NET objects using reflection. Shows the differences between the two objects.
    • NBuilder - Rapid generation of test objects
    • ReportPortal - AI-powered Test Automation Dashboard. Acquire, aggregate and analyze test reports to ascertain release health.

  • Tools

    • Fiddler - The free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform
    • AnyStatus - A desktop notifications app for monitoring CI/CD pipelines, servers, network, health and metrics. AnyStatus supports Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity, AppVeyor and more.
    • Open Live Writer - Blog writer which integrated with WordPress, Blogger, et. al. Open Live Writer makes it easy to write, preview, and post to your blog. For more information see http://openlivewriter.org .
    • CodeHub - CodeHub is the best way to browse and maintain your GitHub repositories on any iOS device!
    • ShareX - ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to over 80 supported destinations you can choose from.
    • Myrtille - A native HTML4/5 Remote Desktop Protocol client, HTTP gateway written in C# for .NET
    • Opserver - Stack Exchange's Monitoring System
    • Netling - A load tester client for easy web testing. It is extremely fast while using little CPU or memory.
    • Visual Studio Uninstaller - Uninstall and clean up all components of Visual Studio.
    • Fake JSON Server - Fake REST API for prototyping or as a CRUD Back End. No need to define types, uses dynamic typing. Data is stored to a single JSON file. Has authentication, WebSocket notifications, async long running operations, random generation for errors/delays and experimental GraphQL support.
    • posh-dotnet - `PowerShell` tab completion for the [dotnet CLI](https://github.com/dotnet/cli)
    • NETworkManager - A powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshoot network problems!
    • Papercut - Papercut is an open source (.NET based) test email viewer that runs locally with a built-in SMTP server designed to receive and notify of test email messages.
    • SmartCode - SmartCode = IDataSource -> IBuildTask -> IOutput => Build Everything!!! (Including [**Code generator**])

  • Visual Studio Plugins

    • Nuget Package Manager - NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET
    • Resharper - Developer Productivity Tool for Visual Studio **[$]**
    • Refactoring Essentials - Open source extension for C# and VB.NET refactorings, including code best practice analyzers.
    • Productivity Power Tools - A set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.
    • VSColorOutput - Color highlighting for Build, Find and Debug output windows. Custom match patterns and colors can be added.
    • CodeLineage - Easy access to a cumulative diff view between file revisions (supports svn, git, mercurial, perforce).
    • OzCode - OzCode is a Visual Studio Extension which cuts down on debugging time and increases productivity by detecting and isolating bugs, making them easy to fix. **[$]**
    • Web Essentials - Web Essentials extends Visual Studio with lots of new features that web developers have been missing for many years
    • SideWaffle - A collection of Item Templates for Visual Studio 2012/2013 that makes any web developer's life much easier
    • Refactoring Essentials - Open source extension for C# and VB.NET refactorings, including code best practice analyzers.
    • CodeContracts - Source code for the CodeContracts tools for .NET
    • Git Diff Margin - Displays live Git changes of the currently edited file on Visual Studio margin and scroll bar
    • Roslynator - A collection of 500+ analyzers, refactorings and fixes for C#, powered by Roslyn

  • Web Frameworks

    • Coalesce - Coalesce is a framework for rapid-development of ASP.NET Core web applications.
    • Suave.IO - Framework/library/web server that makes you cry tears of joy after finishing your project ahead-of-time when you look at the beautiful code you've written in F#.
    • ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET is a free web framework for building great web sites and applications
    • FubuMVC - A front-controller style MVC framework for .NET
    • IISNode - Host Node.js applications in IIS
    • DotVVM - MVVM framework for people who don't like to write JavaScript, with OWIN and ASP.NET Core support and a free extension for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017.
    • Giraffe - Functional (F#) ASP.NET Core micro framework for building rich web applications

  • WebSocket

    • Crossertech - Provides a great set of tools for you to build real-time applications on the Microsoft.NET plattform and much more. **[$]**
    • Fleck - Fleck is a WebSocket server implementation in C#. Branched from the Nugget project
    • SignalR - Library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications
    • SuperSocket - SuperSocket is a light weight extensible socket application framework
    • Websocket-Sharp - A C# implementation of the WebSocket protocol client and server
    • WampSharp - A C# implementation of [The Web Application Messaging Protocol](https://wamp-proto.org/) - a protocol that provides messaging patterns of Remote Procedure Calls and Publish/Subscribe over WebSockets.
    • NetGain - A high performance WebSocket server library powering Stack Overflow.
    • Websockets.PCL - WebSockets.PCL is a portable class library, profile 259, C# WebSocket implementation.
    • WebSocket4NET - WebSocket client for .NET 2.0+, Xamarin, Mono, Silverlight, Windows Phone, & WinRT

  • Parser Library

    • Awesome .NET Core - A collection of awesome .NET core libraries, tools, frameworks and software
    • awesome-ddd - A curated list of Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), Event Sourcing, and Event Storming resources
    • Awesome Unity - A categorized community-driven collection of high-quality awesome Unity assets, projects, and resources.
    • Awesome Xamarin - A collection of interesting libraries/tools for Xamarin mobile projects.
    • Awesome Roslyn - A curated list of awesome Roslyn books, tutorials, open source projects, analyzers, code fixes, and refactorings.
    • Weekly C# Digest - Weekly email newsletter with manually curated top 5 links from the .NET community.
    • Sprache - A simple, lightweight library for constructing parsers directly in C# code
    • Pidgin - A lightweight, fast and flexible parsing library for C#, developed at Stack Overflow
    • FParsec - A parser combinator library for F#
    • Superpower - A C# parser construction toolkit with high-quality error reporting
    • .NET-libraries-that-make-your-life-easier - Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier
    • awesome-LINQ - A curated collection of awesome LINQ libraries, tools, and more.
    • awesome-analyzers - A curated list of .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") diagnostic analyzers and code fixes.
    • ASP.NET Core Library and Framework Support - A list of what .NET libraries and frameworks are currently supported by ASP.NET Core and .NET Core).
    • Awesome .NET Performance - A curated list of awesome .NET Performance books, courses, trainings, conference talks, blogs and most inspiring open source contributors.
    • .NET Open Source Developer Projects - This community maintained list showcases .NET open source projects that are useful for any aspect of the development process.
    • Discover .NET - Awesome .NET open source and community resources.

  • Minification

    • Microsoft Ajax Minifier - Contains JS and CSS minifiers which have a highest performance, because its have been specifically designed for .NET. Optionally produce Source Maps for JS code.
    • Web Markup Minifier - .NET library that contains a set of markup minifiers. The objective of this project is to improve the performance of web applications by reducing the size of HTML, XHTML and XML code.

  • HTTP

    • Tiny.RestClient - Simpliest Fluent REST client for .NET.
    • Http.fs - A functional HTTP client for F#.
    • RestSharp - Simple REST and HTTP API client for .NET
    • EasyHttp - HTTP library for C#
    • Refit - The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET
    • RestEase - Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library, which is simple and customisable. Heavily inspired by Refit
    • RestLess - The automatic type-safe-reflectionless REST API client library for .Net Standard.
    • HttpClientGoodies - utilities for working with `HttpClient`
    • CoreRPC - Extensible library for WCF-like RPC targeting netstandard1.3. Compatible with .NET, Mono and .NET Core.

  • Internationalization

    • i18n - Smart internationalization for ASP.NET MVC
    • MessageFormat.NET - ICU MessageFormat implementation in .NET lets you write contextual UI messages (PCL library)
    • ResX Resource Manager - The most popular free tool to localize all kind of applications with resx-based resources.

  • Interoperability

    • CppSharp - Tools to surface C++ APIs to C#
    • Sharpen - Sharpen is an Eclipse plugin created by db4o that allows you to convert your Java project into C#
    • CXXI - C++ interop framework
    • pythonnet - Python and .NET interop framework
    • PInvoke Interop Assistant - Converts C to managed P/Invoke signatures or verse visa.
    • LegacyWrapper - LegacyWrapper uses a wrapper process to call DLLs from a process of the opposing architecture (x86 or AMD64).
    • Pyrolite - This library allows your Java or .NET program to interface very easily with
    • pinvoke - A library containing P/Invoke code for latest Windows OS.

  • IoC

    • Castle Windsor - Castle Windsor is best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET and Silverlight
    • Unity - Lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection
    • Autofac - An addictive .NET IoC container
    • DryIoc - Simple, fast all fully featured IoC container.
    • Ninject - The ninja of .NET dependency injectors
    • Lamar - A fast IoC container heavily optimized for usage within ASP.NET Core and other .NET server side applications.
    • LightInject - A ultra lightweight IoC container
    • Simple Injector - Simple Injector is an easy-to-use Dependency Injection (DI) library for .NET 4+ that supports Silverlight 4+, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 including Universal apps and Mono.
    • Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection - The default IoC container for ASP.NET Core applications.
    • Scrutor - Assembly scanning extensions for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.
    • VS MEF - Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) implementation used by Visual Studio.
    • TinyIoC - An easy to use, hassle free, Inversion of Control Container for small projects, libraries and beginners alike.
    • Stashbox - A lightweight, portable dependency injection framework for .NET based solutions.
    • lamar - The original IoC/DI Container for .Net (Previously StructureMap)

  • JavaScript Engines

    • ClearScript - A library that makes it easy to add scripting to your .NET applications. It currently supports JavaScript (via V8 and JScript) and VBScript.
    • Edge.js - Run .NET and Node.js code in-process on Windows, macOS, and Linux
    • Jint - JavaScript interpreter for .NET which provides full ECMA 5.1 compliance and can run on any .NET platform.
    • Jurassic - A implementation of the ECMAScript language and runtime. It aims to provide the best performing and most standards-compliant implementation of JavaScript for .NET.

  • Mail

    • FluentEmail - A fluent wrapper for System.Net.Mail with Razor templating support.
    • MailKit - A complete cross-platform mail stack including IMAP, POP3, SMTP, authentication and more. Built on top of MimeKit.
    • MimeKit - A cross-platform .NET MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, TNEF and Unix mbox spools.
    • PreMailer.Net - C# library that moves your stylesheets to inline style attributes, for maximum compatibility with e-mail clients.
    • StrongGrid - Client for SendGrid's v3 API. Not only allows you to send emails, but also allows you to bulk import contacts, manage lists and segments, create custom fields for your lists, etc. Also includes a parser for SendGrid Webhooks.

  • Media

    • CSCore - An advanced audio library, supporting playback/recording, decoding/encoding and processing of audio data in realtime (effects, visualizations, ...).
    • TagLib# - TagLib# (aka taglib-sharp) is a library for reading and writing
    • LibVLCSharp - Xamarin bindings for libvlc, the multimedia framework powering the VLC applications made by VideoLAN.
    • NAudio - Playback, decode and encode audio in a variety of file formats such as MP3, MP4, WAV, AIFF, Speex, etc.
    • Xabe.FFmpeg - .NET Standard wrapper for FFmpeg. It allows to process media without know how FFmpeg works, and can be used to pass customized arguments to FFmpeg from C# application. **[$]**

  • Metrics

  • Micro Framework

  • Object to object mapping

    • AutoMapper - A convention-based object-object mapper in .NET. https://automapper.org
    • TinyMapper - A tiny and quick object mapper for .NET.
    • ExpressMapper - A lightweight, lighting fast .NET mapper to map one type of object(s) to another in automated and easy way. ExpressMapper relies completely on the expression trees.
    • AgileMapper - A zero-configuration Object-Object mapper supporting .NET Standard 1.0
    • Mapster - A high performance object mapper in .net

  • Office

    • ExcelDna - ExcelDna makes it easier to create and deploy Excel Add-Ins using C#, F# or VB .NET
    • ClosedXML - ClosedXML makes it easier for developers to create Excel 2007/2010 files
    • NPOI - This project is the .NET version of POI Java project at https://poi.apache.org/.
    • EPPlus - EPPlus is a .NET library that reads and writes Excel 2007/2010 files using the Open Office XML format (xlsx).
    • DocX - DocX is a .NET library that allows developers to manipulate Word 2007/2010/2013 files, it does not require Microsoft Word or Office to be installed.
    • ExcelDataReader - Lightweight and fast library written in C# for reading Microsoft Excel files (2.0-2007).
    • NetOffice - .NET wrapper assemblies for Microsoft Office applications.

  • PDF

    • ITextSharp - iText is a PDF library that allows you to CREATE, ADAPT, INSPECT and MAINTAIN documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF)**[$]****[Free for OSS]**
    • PdfiumViewer - PdfiumViewer is a PDF viewer based on the PDFium project.
    • WkhtmlToPdf - C# wrapper around wkhtmltopdf console utility. Allow to generate preety PDF using HTML and CSS.
    • Pdfium.Net SDK - Advanced C# PDF library for render, create, edit, merge, split, print, and view PDFs. Open source PDF Viewer is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/patagames). A [NuGet package](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Pdfium.Net.SDK/) is also available for easy inclusion into your projects.**[$]**
    • Pdfium.Net SDK - Advanced C# PDF library for render, create, edit, merge, split, print, and view PDFs. Open source PDF Viewer is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/patagames). A [NuGet package](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Pdfium.Net.SDK/) is also available for easy inclusion into your projects.**[$]**

  • Profiler

    • MiniProfiler - A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET websites
    • Glimpse - The open source diagnostics platform for the web

  • Push Notifications

    • PushSharp - A server-side library for sending Push Notifications to iOS, OSX, Android, Chrome, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Blackberry, and Amazon devices.

  • Queue

    • CAP - An EventBus with local persistent message functionality for RabbitMQ or Kafka.
    • NServiceBus - The most popular service bus for .NET
    • Gofer.NET - Easy C# API for Distributed Background Tasks/Jobs for .NET Core. Inspired by celery for python.
    • Hangfire - Incredibly easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring tasks inside ASP.NET applications
    • RabbitMQ.NET - Implementation of an AMQP client library for C#, and a binding exposing AMQP services via WCF
    • NetMQ - NetMQ is 100% native C# port of ZeroMQ
    • MassTransit - MassTransit is lean service bus implementation for building loosely coupled applications using the .NET Framework.
    • Rebus - Rebus is a lean service bus implementation for .NET, similar in nature to NServiceBus and MassTransit, only leaner
    • RestBus - A service-oriented .NET messaging library for RabbitMQ.
    • RawRabbit - A modern .NET Core library for RabbitMQ.
    • EasyNetQ - An easy to use .NET API for RabbitMQ
    • Warewolf ESB - An easy to use service bus and microservices platform. Easily build applications and services in a visual IDE.
    • Confluent's .NET Client - Confluent's .NET Client for Apache Kafka.
    • Kafunk - F# Kafka client from Jet
    • Brighter - Command Dispatcher, Processor, and Distributed Task Queue https://www.goparamore.io/

  • Reactive Programming

    • Rx.NET - The Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences and LINQ-style query operators
    • Dynamic Data - Reactive Extensions (Rx) for collections

  • SDK and API Clients

    • AWS SDK - The AWS SDK for .NET enables .NET developers to easily work with Amazon Web Services
    • Azure PowerShell - A set of PowerShell cmdlets for developers and administrators to develop, deploy and manage Microsoft Azure applications
    • Octokit.NET - A GitHub API client library for .NET
    • DropNet - Client library for the Dropbox API
    • Getty Images API SDK - SDK for the Getty Images and iStock APIs
    • Countly SDK for Windows - Windows SDK for Countly analytics and marketing platform for product and marketing managers

  • Serialization

    • Ceras - [Very fast](https://github.com/rikimaru0345/Ceras#performance-benchmarks) binary serializer for .NET/Core/Unity; [huge set of features](https://github.com/rikimaru0345/Ceras/wiki/Full-feature-list-&-planned-features), can be used [for easy networking](https://www.rikidev.com/networking-with-ceras-part-1/), handles circular references, polymorphism, ...
    • Json.NET - Popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
    • ServiceStack.Text - JSON, JSV and CSV Text Serializers used in servicestack.net
    • Msgpack-Cli - MessagePack implementation for Common Language Infrastructure
    • Jil - Fast .NET JSON serializer, built on Sigil (used by StackOverflow)
    • Bond - cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language de/serialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data.
    • Hyperion - A high performance polymorphic serializer for the .NET framework.
    • FileHelpers - free and easy to use .NET library to import or export data from fixed length or delimited records in files, strings or streams.
    • FsPickler - A fast multi-format message serializer for .NET
    • Migrant - Fast and flexible serialization framework usable on undecorated classes.
    • Utf8Json - Fast and Zero Allocation JSON Serializer for C#(.NET, .NET Core, Unity and Xamarin), this serializer write/read directly to UTF8 binary so boostup performance.
    • Protobuf.NET - Protocol buffers is the name of the binary serialization format used by Google for much of their data communications

  • SMS and Phone calls

    • Twilio-csharp - A C#/.NET Library for sending and receiving phone calls and text messages with Twilio.

  • Strong Naming

    • Strong Namer - Automatically add strong names to referenced assemblies which do not already have a strong name. This will allow you to reference and use (NuGet packages with) assemblies which are not strong named from your projects that do use a strong name.

  • Template Engine

    • RazorEngine - Open source templating engine based on Microsoft's Razor parsing engine
    • RazorLight - Open source template engine based on Microsoft's Razor parsing engine supporting .NET Standard 2.0
    • Nustache - Open source library for logic-less templates
    • Stubble - Trimmed down {{mustache}} templates in .NET. Successor of Nustache.
    • DotLiquid - C# port of the Ruby Liquid templating language
    • Mustache Sharp - An extension of the mustache text template engine for .NET.

  • Trading

    • Lean - Lean Engine is an open-source fully managed C# algorithmic trading engine built for desktop and cloud usage. https://www.quantconnect.com/lean/
    • StockSharp - Trading and algorithmic trading open source platform (stock markets, forex, bitcoins and options). https://stocksharp.com

  • UI Automation

    • Atata - Automated web testing full featured framework based on Selenium WebDriver.
    • FlaUI - FlaUI is a .NET library which helps with automated UI testing of Windows applications (Win32, WinForms, WPF, Store Apps, ...).

  • Web Servers

    • Kestrel - A web server for ASP.NET Core based on libuv
    • EmbedIO - Web server built on Mono and cross-platform
    • XSP - Mono's ASP.NET hosting server. This module includes an Apache Module, a FastCGI module that can be hooked to other web servers as well as a standalone server used for testing (similar to Microsoft's Cassini)

  • Windows Services

    • TopShelf - An easy service hosting framework for building Windows services using .NET

  • WPF

    • Extended WPF Toolkit™ - A rich collection of controls, components and utilities for creating WPF applications
    • WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
    • Data Grid Extensions - Modular extensions for the WPF DataGrid control, like filtering, additional column events, extended star-size column behavior, and more...

  • Query Builders

    • SqlKata - Elegant SQL query builder, that supports complex queries, joins, sub queries, nested where conditions, vendor engine targets and more

  • Web Browsers

    • CefSharp - HTML5, CSS3 and JS web browser powered by Chromium, for WinForms and WPF
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