awesome-dotnet

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

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Cryptography
- Paseto.Core - A Paseto (Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens) implementation for .NET
- 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.
- CryptoNet - .NET simple crypto library. Native c#.
- CryptoNet - .NET simple crypto library. Native c#.
- BouncyCastle - Together with the .Net System.Security.Cryptography, the reference implementation for cryptographic algorithms on the CLR.
Database
- SliccDB - Lightweight Embedded (In-Memory) Graph Database for .net
- RocksDB - C# binding for Facebook's RocksDB Key-Value store + native builds for Windows, macOS and Linux
- BrightstarDb - BrightstarDB is a native .NET RDF triple store
- DBreeze - DBreeze Database is an open-source embedded Key-Value store
- Event Store - The open-source, functional database with Complex Event Processing in JavaScript
- 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
- Db4o-gpl - Object-oriented database, embedded and remote connections supported.
- ZoneTree - Persistent, high-performance, transactional, and ACID-compliant ordered key-value database for .NET.
- LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file - https://www.litedb.org
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
- DuckDB.NET - .NET data provider for DuckDB
- 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
- Rqlite-dotnet - .NET client for rqlite (distributed relational DB based on SQLite)
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.
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]**
- dnSpyEx - Unofficial revival of dnSpy
- dnSpy - open-source .NET assembly browser, editor, decompiler and debugger
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
- yuniql - Free and open source schema versioning and migration tool made with .NET Core. Run migrations with plain SQL, arrange versions in ordinary folders and seed your data from CSV via stand-alone CLI (no CLR needed), Azure Pipelines, Docker or ASP.NET Core code. https://yuniql.io
Desktop
- Sucrose Wallpaper Engine - Sucrose is a versatile wallpaper engine that brings life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive wallpapers.
DirectX
- Vortice.Windows - Cross platform .NET standard libraries for DirectX, WIC, Direct2D1, XInput, XAudio and X3DAudio
Distributed Computing
- MBrace - Integrated Data Scripting for the Cloud
- 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. It was created by Microsoft Research.
- .NEXT Raft - Raft implementation for .NET and ASP.NET Core that allows to build clustered microservices powered by distributed consensus and replication
- 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 available 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.
- 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
- SourceBrowser - Source browser website generator that powers https://referencesource.microsoft.com
- Swashbuckle - Seamlessly adds a Swagger to Web API 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.
- HubDocs - Swagger-like UI tool like Swagger, but for SignalR hubs — auto-discover your hubs, explore methods, invoke calls, and preview live client messages..
E-Commerce and Payments
- ServiceStack.Stripe - Typed .NET clients for stripe.com REST APIs
- NopCommerce - nopCommerce. Free open-source e-commerce shopping cart (ASP.NET Core)
- ServiceStack.Stripe - Typed .NET clients for stripe.com REST APIs
- SmartStoreNET - Free ASP.NET Core MVC e-commerce Shopping Cart Solution
- 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 - Headless, multi-vendor, multi-tenant, the most advanced open source e-commerce platform based on .NET Core 5.0 and MongoDB.
- Adyen - The official Adyen Payment API Library for .NET
Emulators
- Blzhawk - BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.
- Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
Environment Management
- Dotnet CLI - The cross-platform .NET Core command-line toolchain utility.
- 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
- Cinchoo ETL - ETL Framework for .NET (Read / Write CSV, Flat, Xml, JSON, Key-Value formatted files)
- EtlBox.Classic - Lightweight ETL (extract, transform, load) library and data integration toolbox for .NET built on top of Microsoft TPL.Dataflow library.
Event aggregator and messenger
- Rx Event Aggregator - Super-simple Reactive-Extension code from Reactive.EventAggregator
- 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.
- FluentMediator - FluentMediator is an unobtrusive library that allows developers to build custom pipelines for Commands, Queries and Events
- EventFlow - EventFlow is an Async/await first CQRS and Event Sourcing DDD framework for .NET
- LiteBus - An easy-to-use and ambitious in-process mediator providing the foundation to implement Command Query Separation (CQS)
Exceptions
- Exceptionless - Exceptionless .NET Client
Extensions
- ExtensionMethods.Net - Site with collection of extension methods
- Z.ExtensionMethods - Over a 1000 useful extension methods
Feature management
- Microsoft.FeatureManagement - This library provides a way to develop and expose application functionality based on feature flags. It enables scenarios like new feature rollouts and A/B testing for experimentation purposes. It also provides integration with common .NET coding patterns and ASP.NET Core.
Functional programming
- Curryfy - Provides strongly typed extensions methods for C# delegates to take advantages of functional programming techniques, like currying and partial application.
- 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#
- Optuple - .NET Standard Library for giving `(bool, T)` Option-like semantics in a non-obtrusive way; this is, there is no new option type dependency for a library or its users.
- MoreLinq - Provides extra methods to LINQ to Objects.
Game
- Stride Game Engine - Stride Game Engine is a 2D/3D cross-platform game engine featuring a scene editor, particles, physically based rendering (PBR), scripting, and much more
- 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]**
- Friflo.Engine.ECS - High-performance C# ECS with simple API. Supports .NET, WASM/WebAssembly, Native AOT, Unity, Godot, MonoGame, ...
- MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games
- FNA - FNA is an XNA4 reimplementation that focuses solely on developing a fully accurate XNA4 runtime for the desktop
- 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
- UnrealCLR - Unreal Engine .NET Core integration
- osu!framework - A 2D application/game written with amazing games in mind.
- DotRecast - A port of Recast & Detour, navigation mesh toolset for games, Unity3D, servers, C#
- Foster - Foster is a small cross-platform 2D game framework in C#.
- 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]**
- Friflo.Engine.ECS - High-performance C# ECS with simple API. Supports .NET, WASM/WebAssembly, Native AOT, Unity, Godot, MonoGame, ...
- Box2D.NET - A C# port of Box2D, a 2D physics engine for games, servers, and Unity3D
- Stride Game Engine - Stride Game Engine is a 2D/3D cross-platform game engine featuring a scene editor, particles, physically based rendering (PBR), scripting, and much more
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
- 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.
- DEM Net Elevation API - .Net library for Digital Elevation Models, allows 3D terrain generation in glTF / STL format.
- NetTopologySuite
Git Tools
- Husky.Net - Git hooks made easy with Husky.Net internal task runner, You can use it to lint your commit messages, run tests, lint code, etc... when you commit or push. supports C# scripts, gitflow hooks, Multiple file states (staged, lastCommit, glob)
- 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
- Git Credential Manager - Helps solving issues of credentials
Graphics
- Oxyplot - OxyPlot is a cross-platform plotting library for .NET
- Aspose.Drawing - Fully managed, cross-platform, complete 2D graphic library for drawing text, geometries, and images, with System.Drawing compatible API. **[$]**
- ScottPlot - A plotting library to interactively displays large datasets. Line plots, bar charts, pie graphs, scatter plots, and more. It supports WinForms, WPF, Avalonia, Console.
- Helix Toolkit - Helix Toolkit is a collection of 3D components for .NET
- 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
- LiveCharts2 - Simple, flexible, interactive & powerful charts, maps, and gauges for .Net. LiveCharts2 supports WPF, WinForms, Xamarin, Avalonia, WinUI, UWP.
- 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.
- RealTimeGraphX - RealTimeGraphX is a data type agnostic, high performance plotting library for WPF, UWP and soon, Xamarin Forms.
- VectSharp - .NET library to create vector graphics and text, and then export it to PDF, SVG and raster image formats.
- ScottPlot - A plotting library to interactively displays large datasets. Line plots, bar charts, pie graphs, scatter plots, and more. It supports WinForms, WPF, Avalonia, Console.
- Helix Toolkit - Helix Toolkit is a collection of 3D components for .NET
- Silk.NET - A cross-platform, high-performance, low-level .NET Standard wrapper for many advanced APIs such as OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, OpenXR, Assimp, GLFW, as well as many others. In addition to wrapping over Native APIs, it also comes with its own Windowing and Input abstraction. This makes game and application development with Silk.NET a breeze, and has pretty much everything a 3D application developer would need.
- Oxyplot - OxyPlot is a cross-platform plotting library for .NET
- Veldrid - A low-level, portable graphics and compute library for .NET
GraphQL
- GraphQL.NET - Implementation of [Facebook's GraphQL](https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec) in .Net
- graphql-net - GraphQL to IQueryable for .NET.
- EntityGraphQL - library to build a GraphQL API on top of data model with the extensibility to easily bring multiple data sources together in the single GraphQL schema (EF is not a requirement - any ORM working with LinqProvider or an in-memory object will work).
- ZeroQL - high-performance C#-friendly GraphQL client. It supports Linq-like syntax. It doesn't require Reflection.Emit or expressions. As a result, the runtime provides performance very close to a raw HTTP call.
- HotChocolate - GraphQL server compatible to all GraphQL compliant clients like Strawberry Shake, Relay, Apollo Client, and various other clients and tools.
GUI
- GUI - Framework
  - UNO Platform - The only platform for building native mobile, desktop and WebAssembly with C#, XAML from a single codebase. Open source and professionally supported. Website: [platform.uno](https://platform.uno/)
  - Lara - Lara Web Engine is a library for developing Web user interfaces in C# - (Blazor Server-Side Alternative)
  - QtSharp - Mono/.NET Bindings for Qt
  - Qml.Net - A cross-platform Qml/.NET integration for Mono/.NET/.NET Core
  - Avalonia - A multi-platform .NET UI framework (formerly known as Perspex).
  - Windows UI Library - The Windows UI Library (WinUI) provides official native Microsoft UI controls and features for Windows UWP apps.
  - Xamarin.Forms - Build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows from a single, shared C# codebase.
  - Eto.Forms - Cross-platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .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
  - 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
  - XWT - A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop applications with .NET and Mono
  - Neutronium - Build .NET desktop applications using HTML, CSS, javascript and MVVM bindings such as with WPF.
  - photino.NET - Photino is a lightweight open-source framework for building native, cross-platform desktop applications with Web UI technology.
- GUI - other
  - WinApi - A simple, direct, ultra-thin CLR library for high-performance Win32 Native Interop with automation, windowing, DirectX, OpenGL and Skia helpers.
  - AvalonEdit - The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop
  - ObjectListView - ObjectListView is a C# wrapper around a .NET ListView. It makes the ListView much easier to use and teaches it some new tricks
- GUI - Themed Control Toolkits
  - HandyControl - Contains some simple and commonly used WPF controls
  - MahApps.Metro - Toolkit for creating Metro-styled WPF apps
  - Modern UI for WPF - MUI - Set of controls and styles to convert WPF applications into a great looking Modern UI apps.
  - MaterialSkin - Theming .NET WinForms, C# or VB.Net, to Google's Material Design principles.
  - AdonisUI - Lightweight UI toolkit for WPF applications offering classic but enhanced Windows visuals.
  - Bunifu UI Framework - Carefully crafted Winforms controls and components for creating stunning modern application UI. **[$]**
  - 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.
- - ObjectListView - ObjectListView is a C# wrapper around a .NET ListView. It makes the ListView much easier to use and teaches it some new tricks
  - DockPanelSuite - The Visual Studio inspired docking library for .NET WinForms
  - MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit - Toolkit for creating Material Design styled WPF apps
  - Empty Keys UI - Multi-platform and multi-engine XAML based user interface library **[Free][Proprietary]**
  - Bunifu UI Framework - Carefully crafted Winforms controls and components for creating stunning modern application UI. **[$]**
  - 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.
HTML and CSS
- GUI - other
  - 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
- - HtmlAgilityPack - an agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPath or XSLT
HTTP
- GUI - other
  - RestSharp - Simple REST and HTTP API client for .NET
  - Refit - The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET
  - WebApiClient
  - Apizr
  - Fluxzy.Core - A fully managed and fully streamed Man-On-The-Middle library to intercept, record and alter HTTP/1.1, H2, websocket traffic over plain or secure channels.
  - NotoriousClient - typed, extensible HTTP client with fluent request builder, streaming & multipart. Built on .NET's HttpRequestMessage.
- - Flurl - Fluent, portable, testable REST/HTTP client library
IDE
- GUI - other
  - Waf DotNetPad - A simple and fast code editor that makes fun program with C# or Visual Basic.
  - CSharp Analyzer by MongoDB
  - RoslynPad - A simple C# editor based on Roslyn and AvalonEdit.
  - Ionide - An Atom Editor and Visual Studio Code package suite for cross platform F# development.
- - Visual Studio Express - The free lightweight version of Visual Studio for .NET programming.

Programming Languages

C# 484 F# 15 JavaScript 8 PowerShell 4 C++ 4 Java 3 Go 2 Python 2 HTML 2 Visual Basic .NET 1

awesome-dotnet

Cryptography

Database

Database Drivers

Datetime

Decompilation

Deployment

Desktop

DirectX

Distributed Computing

DLR

Documentation

E-Commerce and Payments

Emulators

Environment Management

ETL

Event aggregator and messenger

Exceptions

Extensions

Feature management

Functional programming

Game

GIS

Git Tools

Graphics

GraphQL

GUI

GUI - Framework

GUI - other

GUI - Themed Control Toolkits

HTML and CSS

GUI - other

HTTP

GUI - other

IDE

GUI - other