awesome-dotnet

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

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Algorithms and Data structures
- Algorithmia - Algorithm and data-structure library for .NET 3.5 and up. Algorithmia contains sophisticated algorithms and data-structures like graphs, priority queues, command, undo-redo and more.
- C# Algorithms - A C# plug-and-play class-library project of standard Data Structures and Algorithms. It contains 35+ Data Structures and 30+ Algorithms designed as Object-Oriented isolated components.
- Towel - data structures, algorithms, mathematics, metadata, extensions, console, measurements, and other useful stuff
- Akade.IndexedSet - A convenient data structure supporting efficient in-memory indexing and querying, including range queries and fuzzy string matching.
- OneOf - OneOf provides discriminated unions for C# with exhaustive compile time matching.
API
- 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
- Breeze - API framework enabling rich data access by using the OData 3 protocol. Client libraries available for JavaScript and C#.
- FastEndpoints - High-performance middleground between classic ASP.NET Core API controllers and Minimal APIs. Using a REPR ([Request-Endpoint-Response](https://deviq.com/design-patterns/repr-design-pattern)) pattern, this library eliminates the boilerplate and monolithic feel of controllers by improving colocation of code.
- 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.
- WTelegramClient - Automate a user account on Telegram, using the latest version of [Telegram Client API](https://core.telegram.org/methods)
- 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#.
- 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
- FFImageLoading - Fast & Furious Image Loading - This Library to load images quickly & easily on Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Mac / Xamarin.Tizen and Windows (UWP, WinRT)
- Ocelot - .NET core API Gateway
- CommandQuery - Command Query Separation for 🌐ASP.NET Core ⚡AWS Lambda ⚡Azure Functions ⚡Google Cloud Functions 🌐ASP.NET Web API 2
- Population.NET - A .NET library allows clients to specify the exact fields they need, reducing unnecessary data transfer by avoiding the retrieval of all fields by default.
- 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
- Wissance.WebApiTookit - A set of libraries and classes that simplify building REST APIs and gRPC services, reducing the amount of code to be written with even one line of code for a fully functional REST controller.
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.
- Newbe.Claptrap - This is a set of server-side development frameworks with reactive, event sourcing and Actor pattern as basic theories. On top of this, developers can develop "distributed", "scale out", and "easy to test" application more simply.
- 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!
- Plastic - Plastic provides encapsulation of things like Domain, Application Rules, Business Rules or Business Logic in Application. For this, Command pattern is used.
- Signals - Signals is a .NET5 based framework which focuses on increasing the quality and productivity within development teams by providing them with tools, aspects and processes.
- 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.
- Fusion - .NET Core and Blazor library that attempts to dramatically improve the way we implement real-time and high-load services by introducing a novel kind of "computed observables" - immutable, thread-safe, and most importantly, almost invisible for developers. [Samples 1](https://github.com/servicetitan/Stl.Fusion.Samples) [Samples 2](https://github.com/alexyakunin/BoardGames)
- silky - The Silky framework is designed to help developers quickly build a microservice development framework through simple code and configuration under the .net platform.
- Positron-JS - An advanced Web View (PositronWebView) with native JavaScript Context to access .NET APIs from hybrid applications inspired from capacitor/cordova.
- ActualLab.Fusion - Skip SignalR and gRPC. Build real-time Blazor and MAUI apps while writing just 0.1% of the usual real-time update code. Handle 10× more API requests with the ActualLab.Rpc protocol—or 1000× more with Fusion’s transparent and perfectly coherent caching. [Samples](https://github.com/ActualLab/Fusion.Samples). [Documentation](https://fusion.actuallab.net/).
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
- JHipster.NET - **NOTE**: This is not affiliated with Microsoft or .NET
- 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.
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.
- Mpt-Instruct-DotNet-S - LLM that can generate and explain C# code (and its C# wrapper to run on consumer CPU with 5GB ram+, contains Console and Blazor sample projects)
- LLamaSharp - C#/.NET Binding of llama.cpp, run LLaMA/GPT model using C# without having to compile lama.cpp.
- LlmTornado - One .NET library to consume OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Google, Azure, Groq, and self-hosed APIs.
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
- 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.
- Enforcer - Write fine grained authorization policy in easy-to-read language, and have it compiled to native .NET code **[$]**
- SAML IdentityServer - Add SAML 2P support to your Duende IdentityServer **[$]**
- SAML OpenIddict - Add SAML 2P support to your OpenIddict **[$]**
- Abblix OIDC Server - A fully certified OpenID Connect server library for .NET by the OpenID Foundation, providing comprehensive support for OAuth2 and OpenID Connect across all profiles. **[$][Free for non-commercial use]**
- ASP.NET SAML - SAML authentication support for ASP.NET apps
- openiddict - Flexible and versatile OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect stack for .NET
- Logto - An IAM infrastructure for modern apps and SaaS products, supporting OIDC, OAuth 2.0 and SAML for authentication and authorization **[$][Free for OSS]**
- ASP.NET Core Identity - New membership system for ASP.NET applications
- Logibit Hawk - A F# [Hawk](https://github.com/outmoded/hawk) authentication library
Background Processing
- BusyBee - Fast, in-memory background job processing for .NET apps with configurable queues, timeouts, parallelism, and built-in OpenTelemetry support.
Blazor
- BootstrapBlazor - A set of enterprise-class UI components based on Bootstrap and Blazor. - **NOTE**: This is not affiliated with Microsoft or .NET
- ant-design-blazor - A set of enterprise-class UI components based on Ant Design and Blazor WebAssembly.
- Megabit.Blazorise - Blazorise is a component library built on top of Blazor and CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Bulma and Material. Very easy to use.
- blazork8s - k8s management ui in blazor and .NET Core.
- MudBlazor - A Material Design framework for Blazor, allowing .NET developers to quickly build web apps, with extensive documentation and examples.
- MASA.Blazor - A set of enterprise-class UI components based on Material Design and Blazor WebAssembly.
Blockchain
- Nethermind - full Ethereum client in .NET Core
Build Automation
- Psake - .NET-based build automation tool written in PowerShell
- Invoke-Build - PowerShell build and test automation tool inspired by Psake.
- MSBuild - The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio
- 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
- FlubuCore - A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code. - **NOTE**: This is not affiliated with Microsoft or .NET
- ModularPipelines - Write your pipelines in C#
- FAKE - F# Make, a cross-platform build automation system
Business Intelligence
- 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]**
- 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.
Caching
- Akavache - An asynchronous, persistent key-value store
- BitFaster.Caching - Thread-safe in-memory caches optimized for very high concurrent throughput, near optimal hit rate and low latency.
- CacheCow - An ASP.NET Web API HTTP caching implementation both on client and server
- EasyCaching - A caching library that contains basic and some advanced usages of caching which can help handle caching more easier! - **NOTE**: This is not affiliated with Microsoft or .NET
- CacheManager - A common interface and abstraction layer for caching.
- FastCache - 10X faster alternative to `MemoryCache` for .NET
- Cashew - a .NET library for caching responses easily with an `HttpClient` through an API that is simple and elegant yet powerful.
- Cache Tower - An efficient multi-layered caching system for .NET (In-Memory, Redis, Database, File etc)
- LazyCache - A simple, developer friendly, in-memory thread-safe caching service. It leverages Microsoft.Extensions.Caching and Lazy to provide performance and reliability in heavy load scenarios.
- FusionCache - An easy to use, high performance and robust cache with an optional distributed 2nd layer and some advanced features, like a fail-safe mechanism and advanced timeouts management
Calendar
- iCal.NET
Chat
- Stream
CLI
- Appccelerate - Command Line Parser - A command-line parser with fluent definition syntax, different argument types, required and optional arguments, value restrictions, aliases, type conversion and semi-automatic usage help message composition
- Argu - Declarative CLI argument & XML configuration parser for F# applications.
- CliFx - Declarative framework for building command line interfaces.
- Typin - Simple to use declarative framework for interactive CLI applications and command line tools (direct mode) that has its roots in CliFx.
- 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.
- CommandDotNet - Model your console app using C# in a composable manner. Define commands with methods. Define subcommands with properties or nested classes. Extensible parsing and command execution.
- 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
- CommandLineUtils - This is a fork of Microsoft.Extensions.CommandLineUtils, which is no longer under active development.
- 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
- JustCli - That’s just a quick way to create your own command line tool.
- 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#.
- Gui.cs - Terminal UI toolkit for .NET.
- spectre.console - A library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.
Cloud Storage
- Foundatio - Cloud Storage library with AWS, Azure and many other providers supported.
- FluentStorage - A polycloud .NET cloud storage abstraction layer originally known as Storage.Net. Provides a generic interface for Blob storage (AWS S3, GCP, FTP, SFTP, Azure Blob/File/Event Hub/Data Lake) and Messaging (AWS SQS, Azure Queue/ServiceBus).
- Stowage - Bloat-free zero dependency .NET cloud storage kit that supports at minimum THE major cloud providers.
- Cloud Storage - This library provides a universal interface for accessing and manipulating data in different cloud blob storage providers (Azure Storage, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage. It makes it easy to switch between providers or to use multiple providers simultaneously, without having to learn and use multiple APIs.
CLR
- Runtime - Mono and CoreCLR .NET runtimes, as well as the standard library and some higher level components like `System.Linq` and `System.Text.Json`.
CMS
- 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.
- Piranha CMS - Piranha is the fun, fast and lightweight .NET framework for developing cms-based web applications with an extra bite. It's built on ASP.NET MVC and Web Pages and is fully compatible with both Visual Studio and WebMatrix. https://piranhacms.org
- 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
- Squidex - square&cacheSeconds=604800) ![GitHub stars](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/Squidex/squidex?style=flat-square&cacheSeconds=86400) - Open source headless CMS and content management hub. https://squidex.io
- FluentCMS - FluentCMS is open source AI Driven ASP.NET Core Blazor Content Management System (CMS)
- fluent-cms - RESTful CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) APIs, Admin Panel web pages,a GraphQL-style query designer and a WYSIWYG web page designer, all fully configurable without writing code.
- fluent-cms - RESTful CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) APIs, Admin Panel web pages,a GraphQL-style query designer and a WYSIWYG web page designer, all fully configurable without writing code.
Code Analysis and Metrics
- PVS-Studio - PVS-Studio is a static analyzer on guard of code quality, security (SAST), and code safety. **[[Free for OSS](https://pvs-studio.com/en/order/open-source-license/)]** **[$]**
- NDepend - is a Visual Studio and VS Team Services extension that estimates your .NET code quality and Technical-Debt, that lets create code rules with C# LINQ syntax, visualize code structure and focus on changes and evolution. **[$]**
- 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
- Bencher - Suite of continuous benchmarking tools designed to catch performance regressions in CI.
- Codinion - Enhanced syntax highlighting for C# and some other "Visual" features. **[$]**
- Codinion - Enhanced syntax highlighting for C# and some other "Visual" features. **[$]**
- .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") Analyzers - A number of Roslyn diagnostic analyzers initially developed to help flesh out the design and implementation of the static analysis APIs.
- 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.
- WebBen - Is a tool for benchmarking your Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server.
Code Snippets
- .NET Fiddle - Write, compile and run C#, F# and VB code in the browser. The .Net equivalent of JSFiddle.
- Sharplab - Run C# code using different branches and versions of Roslyn, see the IL that was produced and examine the JIT's output.
Compilers, Transpilers and Languages
- Hybridizer - CIL (C#, VB.Net, F#, ClojureCLR, ...) to CUDA compiler. **[$]**
- IKVM - A Java Virtual Machine and Bytecode-to-IL Converter for .NET. Execute compiled Java code (bytecode) on .NET Framework or .NET Core.
- ClojureCLR - A port of Clojure to the CLR in C#
- IronScheme - R6RS Scheme compiler, runtime and many standard libraries
- 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.
- FSharp - The F# compiler and tools
- Fable - F# to JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Python, Dart, and Rust transpiler
- 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.
- Lib.Harmony - A library for patching, replacing, and decorating .NET and Mono methods during runtime, mainly used for game modding.
- Iron Python - A Python 3 implementation that is integrated with the .NET framework.
- dotnet-repl - A polyglot REPL built on .NET Interactive
- ClojureCLR Next - Rewrite of Clojure CLR in F#
- Eiffel - Eiffel for .NET is the Eiffel programming language made available in the .NET environment.
- Rust - Experimental Rust compiler for .NET.
- Wrapped Mono - Mono runtime embedded in Rust.
- Lua-C# - A Lua implementation on .NET in C#
- PascalABC.NET
- IKVM - A Java Virtual Machine and Bytecode-to-IL converter for .NET. Execute compiled Java code (bytecode) on .NET
- F# - The F# programming language empowers everyone to write succinct, robust, and performant code
Compression
- Snappy for Windows - Snappy compression library for .NET baked on P/Invoke
- 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#.
- FastLZMA2NET - A .NET Wrapper of [Fast LZMA2 Algorithm](https://github.com/conor42/fast-lzma2).
Configuration
- AgileConfig - AgileConfig is a lightweight configuration center that helps you manage all your application's configurations through website. - **NOTE**: This is not affiliated with Microsoft or .NET
Continuous Integration
- TeamCity - Ready to work, extensible and developer-friendly build server — out of the box **[$]**
- MyGet - Continuous Integration and Deployment, Hosted Package Repository for NuGet, NPM, Bower and VSIX **[$]**
- AppVeyor - .NET Continuous Integration and Deployment as a service. **[$]** **[Free for OSS]**
Cryptography
- HashLib - HashLib is a collection of nearly all hash algorithms you've ever seen, it supports almost everything and is very easy to use
- NaCl.Core - A managed-only cryptography library for .NET which provides modern cryptographic primitives.

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