awsome-dotnet

About A collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks and software
https://github.com/stackdev19/awsome-dotnet

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Misc
- Validot - Validot is a performance-first, compact library for advanced model validation. Using a simple declarative fluent interface, it efficiently handles classes, structs, nested members, collections, nullables, plus any relation or combination of them. It also supports translations, custom logic extensions with tests, and DI containers.
- 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).
- Rant - The Rant Procedural Text Generation DSL
- 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.
- NaturalSort.Extension - Extension method for StringComparer that adds support for natural sorting (e.g. "abc1", "abc2", "abc10" instead of "abc1", "abc10", "abc2").
- Coravel - zero config .NET Core library that makes Task Scheduling, Caching, Queuing, Mailing, Event Broadcasting (and more) a breeze!
- Quickenshtein - An extremely quick and memory efficient Levenshtein Distance calculator with SIMD and Threading support
- Infinity Crawler - A simple but powerful web crawler library for .NET
- Build Versioning - Simple build versioning for .NET, powered by Git tags
- 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. [$]
- 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.
- LINQPad.QueryPlanVisualizer - View SQL Server and Postgres query plans directly inside LINQPad.
MVVM
- Community Toolkit - Collection of control & helper libraries and samples for various .NET technologies. Contains modern MVVM library, supported by Microsoft. Includes [Windows Community Toolkit](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit), [MAUI Community Toolkit](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui), and [Dotnet Community Toolkit](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/dotnet).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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/).
- MVVM Dialogs - Framework simplifying the concept of opening dialogs from a view model when using MVVM in WPF or UWP.
- Smaragd - A platform-independent, lightweight library for developing .NET applications using the MVVM architecture.
- EBind - A concise, fast and feature-rich .NET data binding solution.
- 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.
- Stylet - Minimal MVVM framework inspired by Caliburn Micro, with good documentation, high test coverage, and its own IoC container
- 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.
Networking
- NetCoreServer - Ultra fast and low latency asynchronous socket server & client C# .NET Core library with support TCP, SSL, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket protocols and 10K connections problem solution (NETStandard).
- SharpPcap - Fully managed, cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) .NET library for capturing packets from live and file based devices.
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
- GemBox.Bundle - A package of .NET components that enable fast, simple and efficient processing of office files (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF and emails). **[$]****[Free Lite versions]**
- 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.
- ShapeCrawler - A fluent API for the processing of PowerPoint presentations without Microsoft Office installed.
- Toxy - .NET text extraction framework supports a few file formats
- MiniExcel - A micro Excel helper avoids OOM and high performance to create/mapping/template-fill-data.
- Open XML SDK - The Open XML SDK provides open-source libraries for working with Open XML Documents (DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX).
ORM
- FreeSql - a convenient ORM in dotnet, supports MySql, SqlServer, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sqlite, Firebird, 达梦, 人大金仓, 神舟通用, 翰高 and Access.
- NHibernate - NHibernate Object Relational Mapper
- Entity Framework 6 - Object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects
- Entity Framework Core - Object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects
- EntityFramework.Exceptions - Use typed Exceptions for Entity Framework Core when your SQL query violates database constraints in SqlServer, MySql, PostgreSQL or SQLite
- 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
- Fluent NHibernate - Fluent, XML-less, compile safe, automated, convention-based mappings for NHibernate.
- 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)]** **[$]**
- Massive - A small, happy, data access tool that will love you forever.
- LINQ to DB - The fastest LINQ database access library offering a simple, light, fast, and type-safe layer between your POCO objects and your database.
- MicroLite ORM
- PetaPoco - A tiny ORM-ish thing for your POCOs
- AsyncPoco - A long-"awaited" fully asynchronous PetaPoco fork
- NPoco - Simple microORM that maps the results of a query onto a POCO object. Based on Schotime's branch of PetaPoco
- Limebean - Hybrid ORM which uses SQL fragments and doesn't require Model Classes.
- Insight.Database - Insight.Database is a fast, lightweight, micro-ORM for .NET
- DbExtensions - Data-access framework with a strong focus on query composition, granularity and code aesthetics.
- SmartSql - SmartSql = MyBatis + Cache（Memory | Redis）+ ZooKeeper + R / W Splitting + Dynamic Repository ....
- RepoDb - A hybrid ORM library for .NET.
- Venflow - A super fast and lightweight ORM for PostgreSQL.
- MongoFramework - An "Entity Framework"-like interface for MongoDB
- Dapper.FastCRUD - The fastest micro-ORM extension for Dapper
Package Management
- NuGet - The .NET package manager
- Cloudsmith - A fully managed package management SaaS, with support for NuGet, Npm, Docker and much more. **[Free for Public/OSS]** **[$]**
- Paket - A package dependency manager for .NET with support for NuGet packages and GitHub repositories. https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/
- Sleet - A NuGet v3 static feed generator with support for AWS S3 and Azure Storage
Parser Library
- 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
- CSLY - A light embedded C# lexer/parser generator.
PDF
- Cloudmersive PDF - Cloudmersive PDF is a native .NET Framework and .NET Core NuGet library and API service that can create, modify, encrypt or convert PDF documents at high scale and fidelity; and is free to use with no expiration **[Free]**
- Docotic.Pdf - PDF library to create, read, edit, draw, and print PDF documents in .NET and .NET Core applications. 100% managed, without unsafe blocks. **[$]** **[[Free for OSS](https://bitmiracle.com/pdf-library/free-pdf-library.aspx)]**
- Pdfium.Net SDK - Advanced C# PDF library for render, create, edit, merge, split, print, and view PDFs. Open source PDF Viewer is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/patagames). A [NuGet package](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Pdfium.Net.SDK/) is also available for easy inclusion into your projects.**[$]**
- QuestPDF - QuestPDF is an open-source, modern and battle-tested library that can help you with generating PDF documents by offering friendly, discoverable and predictable C# fluent API.
- 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.
- PdfPig - Read and create and extract text and other content from PDFs in C# (port of PdfBox)
- Kevsoft.PDFtk - A wrapper to drive the awesome pdftk binary, which can fill PDF forms, get field information, concatenate multiple documents or pages, split documents, add or replace stamps, and can attach files to or download files from pages.
Profiler
- MiniProfiler - A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET websites
- Glimpse - The open source diagnostics platform for the web
- Unchase.FluentPerformanceMeter - An open-source and cross-platform .Net Standard 2.0 library that is designed for the method’s performance measurement.
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.
- DnsClient.NET - A simple yet very powerful and high performant open source library for the .NET Framework to do DNS lookups.
- Tecan SiLA2 SDK - A library and code generator to develop SiLA2 clients and servers.
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
- ObsevableComputations - A cross-platform .NET library for computations whose arguments and results are objects that implement INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyCollectionChanged (ObservableCollection) interfaces.
Regular Expression
- RegExtract - Clean & simple idiomatic C# RegEx-based line parser that emits strongly typed results.
RPC
- gRPC - us/aspnet/core/grpc)
- CoreRPC - Extensible library for WCF-like RPC targeting netstandard1.3. Compatible with .NET, Mono and .NET Core.
- BloomRPC - BloomRPC aims to provide the simplest and most efficient developer experience for exploring and querying your GRPC services.
- gRPCurl - gRPCurl is a command-line tool that lets you interact with gRPC servers. It's basically curl for gRPC servers.
- gRPC UI - gRPC UI is a command-line tool that lets you interact with gRPC servers via a browser. It's sort of like Postman, but for gRPC APIs instead of REST.
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
- NCrontab.Scheduler - Simple task scheduler library for scheduling NCrontab-based tasks
- 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.
- Workflow Core - Lightweight embeddable workflow engine
SDK and API Clients
- Cloudmersive APIs - An API client library for .NET **[Proprietary][Free]**
- 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
- Dropbox.NET - Official .NET SDK 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
Search
- 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
Serialization
- Ceras - Ceras is a binary serializer. It converts any object into a byte[] and back. It goes above and beyond in terms of features, speed, and comfort. Supports reference loops, large/complicated inheritance chains, splitting objects into parts and more.
- CsvExport - Very simple & lightweight CSV exporter, Excel friendly, escapes text & quotes etc.
- Protobuf.NET - Protocol buffers is the name of the binary serialization format used by Google for much of their data communications
- 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)
- ProtoBuf - Generate C# code for protocol buffer serialization from a .proto specification.
- FlatSharp - Fast, idiomatic FlatBuffers implementation. Use .fbs files or attributes.
- F# Data - F# type providers for accessing XML, JSON, CSV and HTML files (based on sample documents) and for accessing WorldBank data
- 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.
- ObjectDumper.NET - Serializes in-memory object to C# code.
SMS and Phone calls
- Twilio-csharp - A C#/.NET Library for sending and receiving phone calls and text messages with Twilio.
Source Generator
- 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.
- Supernova.Enum.Generators - A C# source generator to create an enumeration class from an enum type. With this package, you can work on enums very, very fast without using reflection.
- .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.
- Awesome Microservices .NET Core - A collection of awesome training series, articles, videos, books, courses, sample projects, and tools for Microservices in .NET Core.
State machines
- 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
- Pretzel - A site generation tool (and then some) for .NET platforms
- Sandra.Snow - Jekyll-inspired static site generation for .NET
- FsBlog - Blog aware, static site generation using F#
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.
- .NET Assembly Strong-Name Signer - Utility software to strong-name sign .NET assemblies, including assemblies you do not have the source code for.

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