awesome-dot-dev

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

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Serialization
- Protobuf.NET - Protocol buffers is the name of the binary serialization format used by Google for much of their data communications
- ProtoBuf - Generate C# code for protocol buffer serialization from a .proto specification.
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.
Style Guide
- C# Style Guide - StackOverflow Q & A on style guides
Template Engine
- RazorEngine - Open source templating engine based on Microsoft's Razor parsing engine
- RazorLight - Open source template engine based on Microsoft's Razor parsing engine supporting .NET Standard 2.0
- Nustache - Open source library for logic-less templates
- Stubble - Trimmed down {{mustache}} templates in .NET. Successor of Nustache.
- DotLiquid - C# port of the Ruby Liquid templating language
- Mustache Sharp - An extension of the mustache text template engine for .NET.
Testing
- NCrunch - An automated continuous & concurrent testing tool for Visual Studio. **[$]**
- NSubstitute - A friendly substitute for .NET mocking frameworks
- AutoFixture - AutoFixture is an open source framework for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase of your unit tests
- BDDfy - BDDfy is the simplest BDD framework EVER!
- Bogus - A simple and sane fake data generator for C#. Based on and ported from the famed faker.js.
- ExpressionToCode - Use plain C# syntax in assertions that include both the expression expression and subexpression values in the failure message.
- FakeItEasy - The easy mocking library for .NET https://fakeiteasy.github.io
- Fluent Assertions - A set of .NET extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style test
- FluentAutomation - Simple Fluent API for UI Automation
- FsCheck - Random Testing for .NET.
- Fuchu - A unit-testing library for F# with tests-as-values which makes DSLs extemely easy to create.
- Machine.Specifications - Machine.Specifications (MSpec) is a context/specification framework that removes language noise and simplifies tests.
- NFluent - NFluent is an assertion library which aims to fluent your .NET TDD experience.
- NUnit - A unit-testing framework for all .NET languages
- Rhino Mocks - Dynamic Mocking Framework for .NET
- Shouldly - Shouldly is an assertion framework which focuses on giving great error messages when the assertion fails while being simple and terse.
- Stryker.NET - Mutation testing for .NET Core projects
- xUnit.net - A free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework. [https://xunit.github.io/](https://xunit.github.io/)
- Canopy - Canopy is a free, open source F# web automation and testing framework
- Expecto - A smooth testing framework for F# with tests as values. Unit testing, property based testing, performance testing and stress testing.
- Compare-Net-Objects - Perform a deep compare of any two .NET objects using reflection. Shows the differences between the two objects.
- NBuilder - Rapid generation of test objects
- Moq - The most popular and friendly mocking framework for .NET
- xBehave.net - An xUnit.net extension for describing your tests using natural language. [https://xbehave.github.io](https://xbehave.github.io)
- ReportPortal - AI-powered Test Automation Dashboard. Acquire, aggregate and analyze test reports to ascertain release health.
- SpecFlow - Binding business requirements to .Net code
Tools
- Fiddler - The free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform
- AnyStatus - A desktop notifications app for monitoring CI/CD pipelines, servers, network, health and metrics. AnyStatus supports Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity, AppVeyor and more.
- Open Live Writer - Blog writer which integrated with WordPress, Blogger, et. al. Open Live Writer makes it easy to write, preview, and post to your blog. For more information see http://openlivewriter.org .
- CodeHub - CodeHub is the best way to browse and maintain your GitHub repositories on any iOS device!
- ShareX - ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to over 80 supported destinations you can choose from.
- Myrtille - A native HTML4/5 Remote Desktop Protocol client, HTTP gateway written in C# for .NET
- Opserver - Stack Exchange's Monitoring System
- Netling - A load tester client for easy web testing. It is extremely fast while using little CPU or memory.
- Visual Studio Uninstaller - Uninstall and clean up all components of Visual Studio.
- Fake JSON Server - Fake REST API for prototyping or as a CRUD Back End. No need to define types, uses dynamic typing. Data is stored to a single JSON file. Has authentication, WebSocket notifications, async long running operations, random generation for errors/delays and experimental GraphQL support.
- posh-dotnet - `PowerShell` tab completion for the [dotnet CLI](https://github.com/dotnet/cli)
- NETworkManager - A powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshoot network problems!
- Papercut - Papercut is an open source (.NET based) test email viewer that runs locally with a built-in SMTP server designed to receive and notify of test email messages.
- Mockaco - API mock server with fast setup, useful to simulate HTTP responses, leveraging ASP.NET Core features, built-in fake data generation and C# scripting engine powered by Roslyn scripting API.
Trading
- Lean - Lean Engine is an open-source fully managed C# algorithmic trading engine built for desktop and cloud usage. https://www.quantconnect.com/lean/
- StockSharp - Trading and algorithmic trading open source platform (stock markets, forex, bitcoins and options). https://stocksharp.com
UI Automation
- Managed Windows API - Introspect and automate third-party Windows / VC++ applications without needing its source code.
- Atata - Automated web testing full featured framework based on Selenium WebDriver.
- FlaUI - FlaUI is a .NET library which helps with automated UI testing of Windows applications (Win32, WinForms, WPF, Store Apps, ...).
- Managed Windows API - Introspect and automate third-party Windows / VC++ applications without needing its source code.
Visual Studio Plugins
- Nuget Package Manager - NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET
- Resharper - Developer Productivity Tool for Visual Studio **[$]**
- Refactoring Essentials - Open source extension for C# and VB.NET refactorings, including code best practice analyzers.
- Productivity Power Tools - A set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.
- VSColorOutput - Color highlighting for Build, Find and Debug output windows. Custom match patterns and colors can be added.
- CodeLineage - Easy access to a cumulative diff view between file revisions (supports svn, git, mercurial, perforce).
- OzCode - OzCode is a Visual Studio Extension which cuts down on debugging time and increases productivity by detecting and isolating bugs, making them easy to fix. **[$]**
- Web Essentials - Web Essentials extends Visual Studio with lots of new features that web developers have been missing for many years
- SideWaffle - A collection of Item Templates for Visual Studio 2012/2013 that makes any web developer's life much easier
- Refactoring Essentials - Open source extension for C# and VB.NET refactorings, including code best practice analyzers.
- CodeContracts - Source code for the CodeContracts tools for .NET
- Git Diff Margin - Displays live Git changes of the currently edited file on Visual Studio margin and scroll bar
- VsVIM - VIM in Visual Studio
- Developer Assistant - Developer Assistant for Visual Studio enables developers to find and reuse over 21 million code snippets and code sample projects from within the Visual Studio IDE.
Web Browsers
- CefSharp - HTML5, CSS3 and JS web browser powered by Chromium, for WinForms and WPF
Web Frameworks
- Coalesce - Coalesce is a framework for rapid-development of ASP.NET Core web applications.
- Suave.IO - Framework/library/web server that makes you cry tears of joy after finishing your project ahead-of-time when you look at the beautiful code you've written in F#.
- ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET is a free web framework for building great web sites and applications
- FubuMVC - A front-controller style MVC framework for .NET
- IISNode - Host Node.js applications in IIS
- DotVVM - MVVM framework for people who don't like to write JavaScript, with OWIN and ASP.NET Core support and a free extension for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017.
- Giraffe - Functional (F#) ASP.NET Core micro framework for building rich web applications
Web Servers
- Kestrel - A web server for ASP.NET Core based on libuv
- EmbedIO - Web server built on Mono and cross-platform
- XSP - Mono's ASP.NET hosting server. This module includes an Apache Module, a FastCGI module that can be hooked to other web servers as well as a standalone server used for testing (similar to Microsoft's Cassini)
WebSocket
- Crossertech - Provides a great set of tools for you to build real-time applications on the Microsoft.NET plattform and much more. **[$]**
- Fleck - Fleck is a WebSocket server implementation in C#. Branched from the Nugget project
- SignalR - Library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications
- SuperSocket - SuperSocket is a light weight extensible socket application framework
- Websocket-Sharp - A C# implementation of the WebSocket protocol client and server
- WampSharp - A C# implementation of [The Web Application Messaging Protocol](https://wamp-proto.org/) - a protocol that provides messaging patterns of Remote Procedure Calls and Publish/Subscribe over WebSockets.
- NetGain - A high performance WebSocket server library powering Stack Overflow.
- Websockets.PCL - WebSockets.PCL is a portable class library, profile 259, C# WebSocket implementation.
- WebSocket4NET - WebSocket client for .NET 2.0+, Xamarin, Mono, Silverlight, Windows Phone, & WinRT
Windows Services
- TopShelf - An easy service hosting framework for building Windows services using .NET
WPF
- Extended WPF Toolkit™ - A rich collection of controls, components and utilities for creating WPF applications
- WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
- Data Grid Extensions - Modular extensions for the WPF DataGrid control, like filtering, additional column events, extended star-size column behavior, and more...

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C# 376 F# 19 C++ 5 PowerShell 5 JavaScript 5 HTML 3 Java 2 c# 1 Visual Basic 1 Python 1

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