awesome-dot-dev

A bunch of awesome .NET patterns, tools, frameworks, and softwares.
https://github.com/technovert/awesome-dot-dev

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Logging
- 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.
- NLog - NLog - Advanced .NET and Silverlight logging
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
- Spreads - Series and Panels for Real-time and Exploratory Analysis of Data Streams. Spreads library is optimized for performance and memory usage. It is several times faster than other open source projects.
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.
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.
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
- C# StatsD Client - C# client for Etsy's StatsD
Micro Framework
- .NET Micro Framework Interpreter - Microsoft® .NET Micro Framework (NETMF) for developing embedded applications on small devices using Visual Studio
Minification
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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. [$]
- 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.
MVVM
- 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/index).
- MVVM Dialogs - Framework simplifying the concept of opening dialogs from a view model when using MVVM in WPF or UWP.
- 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.
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.
- Open XML SDK - The Open XML SDK provides open-source libraries for working with Open XML Documents (DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX).
ORM
- NHibernate - NHibernate Object Relational Mapper
- 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.
- Dapper.FastCRUD - The fastest micro-ORM extension for Dapper
- 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.
Package Management
- NuGet - The .NET package manager
- 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
- 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.
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.**[$]**
Profiler
- MiniProfiler - A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET websites
- Glimpse - The open source diagnostics platform for the web
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.
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
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
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
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 - [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.
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
- 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.

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