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General

  • ASP.NET Core Documentation

    The official ASP.NET Core documentation site

  • .NET Core Documentation

    Home of the technical documentation for .NET Core, C#, F# and Visual Basic, including basic concepts, getting started instructions, tutorials and samples

  • .NET Core SDK

    .NET Core SDK is a general purpose development platform maintained by Microsoft and the .NET community on

  • .NET Platform Standard

    The differrent between the old version and the new version of .NET

  • Introducing .NET Standard 2.0

    The description of what will be going on for .NET Standard 2.0 and the roadmap for some missing parts of the current .NET Standard

  • Clean Code .NET/.NET Core

    Clean Code concepts adapted for .NET / .NET Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / API

  • autorest

    Swagger (OpenAPI) Specification code generator featuring C# and Razor templates. Supports C#, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python and Ruby

  • aspnet-api-versioning

    set of libraries which add service API versioning to ASP.NET Web API, OData with ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Core

  • AspNetCoreRateLimit

    ASP.NET Core rate limiting middleware

  • CondenserDotNet

    API Condenser / Reverse Proxy using Kestrel and Consul, Including light weight consul library

  • Flurl

    Fluent URL builder and testable HTTP for .NET

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / API / GraphQL

  • Dapper.GraphQL

    A library designed to integrate the Dapper and graphql-dotnet projects with ease-of-use in mind and performance as the primary concern

  • graphql-aspnetcore

    ASP.NET Core MiddleWare to create a GraphQL end-point

  • graphql-convention

    This library is a complementary layer on top that allows you to automatically wrap your .NET classes into GraphQL schema definitions using existing property getters and methods as field resolvers

  • graphiql-dotnet

    GraphiQL middleware for ASP.NET Core

  • graphql-dotnetcore

    GraphQL for .NET Core based on

  • graphql-dotnet

    GraphQL for .NET

  • graphql-dotnet-server

    GraphQL for .NET - Subscription Transport WebSockets

  • Hot Chocolate

    GraphQL server for .Net Core and .NET Framework

  • FSharp.Data.GraphQL

    FSharp implementation of Facebook GraphQL query language

  • parser

    A lexer and parser for GraphQL in .NET

  • tanka-graphql

    GraphQL execution and server libraries supporting SignalR, Apollo, schema manipulation and other features familiar from Apollo and graphql-js

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / API

  • halcyon

    HAL implementation for ASP.NET

  • JSON API .NET Core

    Framework for building json:api compliant APIs with the goal of eliminating RESTful boilerplate

  • LightNode

    Micro RPC/REST Framework built on OWIN

  • NetCoreStack.Proxy

    The type-safe, distributed REST library for .NET Standard 2.0 (NetCoreStack Flying Proxy)

  • NSwag

    The Swagger/OpenAPI toolchain for .NET, Web API and TypeScript.

  • OData

    The Open Data Protocol (OData) enables the creation of HTTP-based data services, which allow resources identified using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and defined in an abstract data model, to be published and edited by Web clients using simple HTTP messages

  • OpenAPI Generator

    OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (e.g. C#, TypeScript, etc), server stubs (ASP.NET Core, NancyFx, etc), documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

  • refit

    The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET

  • RestClient.Net

    Cross Platform REST Client for all C# platforms

  • RestEase

    Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library, which is simple and customisable

  • RestLess

    The automatic type-safe-reflectionless REST API client library for .Net Standard

  • Restier

    RESTier is a RESTful API development framework for building standardized, OData V4 based RESTful services on .NET platform

  • Restsharp

    Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET

  • Swashbuckle

    Seamlessly adds a swagger to WebApi projects

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / API / Swashbuckle

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / API

  • WebAnchor

    Web Anchor provides type-safe, testable and flexible, runtime-generated access to web resources

  • WebAPIContrib for ASP.NET CORE

    Community Contributions for ASP.NET Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Application Frameworks

  • ASP.NET Boilerplate

    ASP.NET Boilerplate is a general purpose application framework especially designed for new modern web applications. It uses already familiar tools and implements best practices around them to provide you a SOLID development experience

  • Abp vNext

    Abp vNext is the next generation of the open source framework. It's a complete architecture and strong infrastructure to create modern web applications! Follows best practices and conventions to provide you a SOLID development experience

  • AsyncEx

    A helper library for async/await

  • Aeron.NET

    Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport - .NET port of Aeron

  • akka.net

    Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on .NET & Mono

  • Aggregates.NET

    Aggregates.NET is a framework to help developers integrate the excellent NServiceBus and EventStore libraries together

  • ASP.NET MVC

    Model view controller framework for building dynamic web sites with clean separation of concerns, including the merged MVC, Web API, and Web Pages w/ Razor

  • Butterfly Server .NET

    Allows building real-time web apps and native apps with minimal effort. Define a Web API and Subscription API that automatically synchronizes datasets across connected clients

  • CAP

    An EventBus with local persistent message functionality for system integration in SOA or Microservice architecture

  • Carter

    Carter is a library that allows Nancy-esque routing for use with ASP.Net Core

  • Chromely

    Lightweight Alternative to Electron.NET, Electron for .NET/.NET Core

  • Cinchoo ETL

    ETL Framework for .NET (Parser / Writer for CSV, Flat, Xml, JSON, Key-Value formatted files)

  • CQRSlite

    Lightweight framework for helping writing CQRS and Eventsourcing applications in C#

  • dataaccess_aspnetcore

    The DataAccess Toolbox contains the base classes for data access in ASP.NET Core with Entity Framework Core 1.0 using the unit-of-work and repository pattern

  • DNTFrameworkCore

    Lightweight and Extensible Infrastructure for Building High Quality Web Applications Based on ASP.NET Core

  • DotNetCorePlugins

    .NET Core library for loading assemblies as a plugin

  • DotnetSpider

    DotnetSpider, a .NET Standard web crawling library similar to WebMagic and Scrapy. It is a lightweight ,efficient and fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for .NET

  • DotNetty

    Port of netty, event-driven asynchronous network application framework

  • dotvvm

    Open source MVVM framework for Web Apps

  • ElectronNET

    Build cross platform desktop apps with ASP.NET NET Core

  • EmbedIO

    A tiny, cross-platform, module based web server for .NET Framework and .NET Core

  • Ether.Network

    Ether.Network is an open source networking library that allow developers to create simple, fast and scalable socket server or client applications over the TCP/IP protocol

  • EventFlow

    Async/await first CQRS+ES and DDD framework for .NET

  • ExcelDataReader

    Lightweight and fast library written in C# for reading Microsoft Excel files

  • ExtCore

    Free, open source and cross-platform framework for creating modular and extendable web applications based on ASP.NET Core 1.0

  • Finbuckle.MultiTenant

    Finbuckle.MultiTenant is a .NET Standard library for multitenant support designed for ASP.NET 2.0+. It provides functionality for tenant resolution, per-tenant app configuration, and per-tenant data isolation

  • fission

    Fast Serverless Functions for Kubernetes

  • grpc

    Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) provide a useful abstraction for building distributed applications and services. The libraries in this repository provide a concrete implementation of the gRPC protocol, layered over HTTP/2. These libraries enable communication between clients and servers using any combination of the supported languages

  • Halibut

    A secure communication stack for .NET using JSON-RPC over SSL

  • MagicOnion

    gRPC based HTTP/2 RPC Streaming Framework for .NET, .NET Core and Unity

  • MassTransit

    Distributed Application Framework for .NET

  • microdot

    An open source .NET microservices framework

  • MoreLINQ

    Extensions to LINQ to Objects

  • Nancy

    Lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .NET and Mono

  • opencvsharp

    .NET Framework wrapper for OpenCV

  • orleans

    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

  • Prism

    Prism is a framework for building loosely coupled, maintainable, and testable XAML applications in WPF, Windows 10 UWP, and Xamarin Forms

  • protoactor-dotnet

    Ultra fast distributed actors for Golang and C#

  • resin

    16-bit wide vector space search engine with HTTP API and pluggable read/write pipelines

  • RService.io

    ASP.Net Core RESTful microservice framework that focusing on speed and ease of use

  • ServiceStack

    Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all

  • Steeltoe OSS

    .NET toolkit for common microservice patterns

  • Strathweb.TypedRouting.AspNetCore

    A library enabling strongly typed routing in ASP.NET Core MVC projects

  • surging

    Surging is a micro-service engine that provides a lightweight, high-performance, modular RPC request pipeline. The service engine supports http, TCP, WS, Mqtt, UDP, and DNS protocols. It uses ZooKeeper and Consul as a registry, Hash Algorithms, random, polling, pressure minimum priority as a load balancing algorithm, built-in service governance to ensure reliable RPC 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

  • X.PagedList

    Library for easily paging through any IEnumerable/IQueryable in ASP.NET/ASP.NET Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Application Templates

  • .NET Boxed

    Project templates with batteries included, providing the minimum amount of code required to get you going. Includes ASP.NET Core API and GraphQL Templates

  • aspnet-core-react-template

    ASP.NET Core 2.0 / React SPA Template App

  • AspNetCoreSpa

    Asp.Net Core 2+ & Angular 6 SPA with Angular CLI full featured application

  • ASP.NET-MVC-Template

    A ready-to-use templates for ASP.NET MVC 5 and ASP.NET Core with repositories, services, models mapping and DI and StyleCop warnings fixed

  • AddFeatureFolders

    Enable feature folders for MVC controllers and views in ASP.NET Core

  • Angular Visual Studio Webpack Starter

    Template for Webpack, Visual Studio, ASP.NET Core and Angular. Both the client and the server side of the application are implemented inside one ASP.NET Core project which makes it easier to deploy

  • CleanArchitecture

    A starting point for Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core. Clean Architecture is just the latest in a series of names for the same loosely-coupled, dependency-inverted architecture. You will also find it named hexagonal, ports-and-adapters, or onion architecture

  • CleanArchitecture (SPA)

    Solution template for creating a Single Page App (SPA) with Angular 8 and ASP.NET Core 3 following the principles of Clean Architecture

  • DNTFrameworkCoreTemplate

    Boilerplate project templates based on

  • dotnet new caju

    dotnet new templates with awesome architecture styles! Increases productivity to design layered applications based on Hexagonal, Clean or Event Sourcing architectures styles. It supports multiple data access frameworks (MongoDB, EntityFramework, Dapper or Kafka) and it is completely testable

  • EISK

    Provides developer resources with simple use cases to build scalable applications on top of .NET Core with (DDD, onion architecture etc)

  • JavaScriptServices

    Microsoft ASP.NET Core JavaScript Services

  • kendo-ui-core

    An HTML5, jQuery-based widget library for building modern web apps.

  • QuickApp

    ASP.NET Core / Angular4 startup project template with complete login, user and role management

  • Serenity

    Serenity is an ASP.NET MVC / TypeScript application platform designed to simplify and shorten development of data-centric business applications with a service based architecture

  • Toucan

    Boilerplate for building single page apps. Server is multi-project .Net Core solution designed around SOLID principles. Client is TypeScript 2, Vuejs 2, Vuex 2

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Authentication and Authorization

  • AspNet.Security.OpenIdConnect.Server

    OpenID Connect/OAuth2 server framework for OWIN/Katana and ASP.NET Core

  • Auth0

    Hosted, enterprise-grade platform for modern identity

  • Casbin.NET

    Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in C#

  • Identity

    ASP.NET Core Identity is the membership system for building ASP.NET Core web applications, including membership, login, and user data

  • IdentityServer

    IdentityServer for ASP.NET Core 1.0 & 2.0

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Authentication and Authorization / IdentityServer

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Authentication and Authorization

  • Okta

    Hosted, enterprise-grade platform for modern identity

  • openiddict

    Easy-to-use OpenID Connect server for ASP.NET Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Authentication and Authorization / openiddict

  • oidc-debugger

    OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect debugging tool

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Authentication and Authorization

  • stormpath-sdk

    Build with Stormpath and ASP.NET Core

  • stormpath-sdk

    Build with Stormpath and ASP.NET Core.(Deprecated: It will longer get updated as of March 2017 after joining OKTA)

  • stuntman

    Library for impersonating users during development leveraging ASP.NET Identity

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Blockchain

  • BTCPayServer

    A cross platform, self-hosted server compatible with Bitpay API

  • Meadow

    An integrated Ethereum implementation and tool suite focused on Solidity testing and development

  • NBitcoin

    Comprehensive Bitcoin library for the .NET framework

  • NBlockchain

    .NET standard library for building blockchain enabled applications

  • NBXplorer

    A Bitcoin and Altcoin lightweight block explorer

  • NEO

    Open Network For Smart Economy

  • Nethereum

    Bringing the love of Ethereum to .NET

  • Nethermind

    .NET Core Ethereum client

  • StratisBitcoinFullNode

    Simple and affordable end-to-end solutions for development, testing and deployment of native C# blockchain applications on the .Net framework

  • Trezor.Net

    Cross platform C# library for talking to the Trezor Hardwarewallet

  • WalletWasabi

    Privacy focused, ZeroLink compliant Bitcoin wallet

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Bot

  • BotSharp

    The Open Source AI Chatbot Platform Builder in 100% C# Running in .NET Core with Machine Learning algorithm

  • NadekoBot

    Open source, general-purpose Discord chat bot written in C#

  • Telegram.Bot

    C# Telegram Bot API library

  • Funogram

    F# Telegram Bot Api library

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Build Automation

  • cake-build

    Cross platform build automation system

  • CatLight

    Status notifier for developers that monitors builds and tasks in the project. Built using .Net Core and Electron

  • Colorful.Console

    Style your C# console output!

  • dotnet-docker

    The base Docker images for working with .NET Core and the .NET Core Tools

  • Dockerize.NET

    .NET Cli Tool to package your .NET Core Application into a docker image: 'dotnet dockerize'

  • FlubuCore

    A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code

  • GitInfo

    Git and SemVer Info from MSBuild, C# and VB

  • GitVersioning

    Stamp your assemblies and NuGet packages with a version from a single, simple version.txt file and include git commit IDs for non-official builds

  • go-dotnet

    Go wrapper for the .NET Core Runtime

  • Image2Docker

    PowerShell module which ports existing Windows application workloads to Docker

  • LocalAppVeyor

    Run your AppVeyor builds, locally

  • msbuild

    The Microsoft Build Engine is a platform for building applications

  • Nuke

    Cross-platform build automation system

  • Opserver

    Stack Exchange's Monitoring System

  • vsts-agent

    Visual Studio Team Services Build and Release Agent

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Bundling and Minification

  • BundlerMinifier

    Visual Studio extension that let's you configure bundling and minification of JS, CSS and HTML files

  • JavaScriptViewEngine

    ASP.NET MVC ViewEngine for rendering markup in a JavaScript environment. Ideal for React and Angular server-side rendering

  • Smidge

    Lightweight runtime CSS/JavaScript file minification, combination, compression & management library for ASP.NET Core

  • 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

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Caching

  • CacheManager

    Open source caching abstraction layer for .NET written in C#. It supports various cache providers and implements many advanced features

  • EasyCaching

    Open source caching library that contains basic usages and some advanced usages of caching which can help us to handle caching more easier

  • Faster

    Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research

  • Foundatio

    Pluggable foundation blocks for building distributed apps

  • Microsoft Caching

    Libraries for in-memory caching and distributed caching

  • Stack Exchange Redis

    High performance general purpose redis client for .NET languages (C# etc)

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / CMS

  • Awesome-CMS-Core

    Awesome CMS Core is an open source CMS built using ASP.Net Core & ReactJS with module separation concern in mind and provide lastest trend of technology

  • Blogifier.Core

    ASP.NET applications to provide common blogging functionality

  • Cofoundry

    Open source .NET Core CMS and modular application framework. Code-first, unobtrusive and extensible

  • CoreWiki

    Simple ASP.NET Core wiki that we are working on during live coding streams

  • dasblog-core

    The original DasBlog reimagined with ASP.NET Core

  • Lynicon

    O/S ASP.Net Core/.Net Core CMS with paid for modules: JSON content, works with variety of data stores, c# content types

  • Miniblog

    An ASP.NET Core blogging engine

  • Mixcore CMS

    Open Source CMS powered by DotNet Core. Mixcore CMS is a scalable, open platform for web content management and digital experiences. Mixcore CMS provides deep capabilities and endless flexibility on the web

  • NetCoreCMS

    An Open source ASP.NET Core 2.0 CMS. It currently supports MySQL and planned to implement MSSQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL. Also it is a modular CMS supports theme, skin, custom layout, widgets, multiple language (En, BN)

  • Orchard Core CMS

    Open Source Content Management System built with ASP.NET Core on top of a Modular and Extensible Application Framework

  • Piranha CMS

    A Lightweight & Unobtrusive Open Source CMS for ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core

  • Platformus

    Free, open source and cross-platform CMS based on ASP.NET Core 1.0 and ExtCore framework

  • SimpleContent

    Simple, yet flexible content and blog engine for ASP.NET Core that can work with or without a database

  • Squidex

    Headless CMS, based on MongoDB, CQRS and Event Sourcing

  • Swastika I/O Core CMS

    Open source ASP.NET Core 2.x CMS. It currently supports MS SQL and planned to implement MSSQL, SQLite in the near future. It has many built-in features out of the box like multilanguage support, theme, template

  • Umbraco

    An extensible and friendly Open source ASP.NET Core CMS

  • Weapsy

    Open source ASP.NET Core CMS based on DDD and CQRS. It supports MSSQL, MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL out of the box

  • Wyam

    Modular static content and static site generator

  • ZKEACMS

    Visual design, build site onlie by drag and drop

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Code Analysis and Metrics

  • awesome-static-analysis

    Curated list of static analysis tools, linters and code quality checkers for various programming languages

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Code Analysis and Metrics / Code Analysis

  • CodeFormatter

    Tool that uses Roslyn to automatically rewrite the source to follow netfx coding styles

  • DevSkim

    A set of IDE plugins and rules that provide security "linting" capabilities

  • RefactoringEssentials

    Refactoring Essentials for Visual Studio

  • roslyn-analyzers

    .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") Analyzers

  • StyleCopAnalyzers

    StyleCop rules using the .NET Compiler Platform

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Code Analysis and Metrics / Metrics

  • AppMetrics

    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

  • Audit.NET

    Small framework to audit .NET object changes

  • BenchmarkDotNet

    Powerful .NET library for benchmarking

  • coverlet

    Cross platform code coverage library for .NET Core

  • Foundatio

    A common interface with in memory, redis, StatsD, and Metrics.NET implementations

  • MiniCover

    Minimalist Code Coverage Tool for .NET Core

  • NBench

    Performance benchmarking and testing framework for .NET applications

  • Nexogen.Libraries.Metrics

    Library for collecting application metrics in .NET and exporting them to Prometheus

  • OpenCover

    Code coverage tool for .NET 2 and above (WINDOWS OS only), support for 32 and 64 processes with both branch and sequence points

  • PerformanceMonitor

    .NET Core Application Performance Monitor

  • prometheus-net

    .NET Client for

  • Prometheus.Client

    .NET Client for

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Code Analysis and Metrics / Metrics / Prometheus.Client

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Compression

  • lz4net

    Ultra fast compression algorithm for all .NET platforms

  • sharpcompress

    Fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Compilers, Transpilers and Languages

  • Fable

    F# to JavaScript Compiler

  • fparsec

    A parser combinatory library for F# and C#

  • IL2C

    A translator for ECMA-335 CIL/MSIL to C language

  • Mond

    A dynamically typed scripting language written in C# with a REPL, debugger, and simple embedding API

  • peachpie

    Open-source PHP compiler to .NET

  • Pidgin

    A lightweight, fast and flexible parsing library for C#, developed at Stack Overflow

  • roslyn

    The .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") provides open-source C# and Visual Basic compilers with rich code analysis APIs

  • Sprache

    Tiny C# Monadic Parser Framework

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Cryptography

  • BCrypt.Net

    Bringing updates to the original bcrypt package

  • BCrypt.NET-Core

    .NET Core port of BCrypt.NET used to store passwords securely

  • BouncyCastle PCL

    The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a C# implementation of cryptographic algorithms and protocols

  • multiformats

    A general purpose hashing library, but a library to encode/decode Multihashes which is a "container" describing what hash algorithm the digest is calculated with

  • nsec

    NSec is a new cryptographic library for .NET Core based on libsodium

  • SecurityDriven.Inferno

    Hig level crypto library used .Net primitives, has been professionally audited

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Database

  • DBreeze

    C# .NET MONO NOSQL (key value store embedded) ACID multi-paradigm database management system

  • JsonFlatFileDataStore

    Simple JSON flat file data store with support for typed and dynamic data

  • LiteDB

    .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file -

  • NoDb

    "no database" file system storage for .NET Core/ASP.NET Core because not every project needs a database

  • marten

    Postgresql as a Document Database and Event Store for .NET Applications

  • StringDB

    StringDB is a modular, key/value pair archival DB designed to consume amounts of ram & produce databases

  • yessql

    .NET document database working on any RDBMS

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Database Drivers

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Database Drivers / MySQL

  • mysql-connector-net

    Connector/Net is a fully-managed ADO.NET driver for MySQL

  • MySqlConnector

    Async MySQL Connector for .NET and .NET Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Database Drivers / Neo4j

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Database Drivers

  • npgsql

    .NET data provider for PostgreSQL. It allows any program developed for .NET framework to access a PostgreSQL database server. It is implemented in 100% C# code. PostgreSQL versions since 9.1 are officially supported, others may work

  • ravendb

    Linq enabled document database for .NET

  • RethinkDb.Driver

    C#/.NET RethinkDB driver with 100% ReQL API coverage

  • progaudi.tarantool

    .NET client for Tarantool NoSql database

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Database Tools and Utilities

  • 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

  • Evolve

    Simple database migration tool that uses plain SQL scripts. Inspired by Flyway

  • EFCorePowerTools

    Entity Framework Core Power Tools - reverse engineering, migrations and model visualization for EF Core

  • fluentmigrator

    Migration framework for .NET much like Ruby on Rails Migrations

  • monitor-table-change-with-sqltabledependency

    Get SQL Server notification on record table change

  • NReco.PivotData

    In-memory data cube with OLAP operations and PivotTable data model

  • roundhouse

    Database Migration Utility for .NET using sql files and versioning based on source control

  • SapphireDb

    Server implementation of SapphireDb, a framework for easy development of applications with realtime data synchronization and a self hosted alternative to firebase realtime database/firestore for asp.net core and ef core. Check out the documentation for more details:

  • SharpRepository

    SharpRepository is a generic repository written in C# which includes support for various relational, document and object databases including Entity Framework, RavenDB, MongoDb and Db4o. SharpRepository includes Xml and InMemory repository implementations as well

  • TrackableEntities.Core

    Change-tracking across service boundaries with .NET Core

  • Mongo.Migration

    Mongo.Migration is designed for the to migrate your documents easily and on-the-fly. No more downtime for schema-migrations. Just write small and simple migrations

  • EntityFrameworkCore.DataEncryption

    A plugin for Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore to add support of encrypted fields using built-in or custom encryption providers

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Date and Time

  • Exceptionless.DateTimeExtensions

    DateTimeRange, Business Day and various DateTime, DateTimeOffset, TimeSpan extension methods

  • FluentDateTime

    Allows you to write cleaner DateTime expressions and operation. Partially inspired by Ruby DateTime Extensions

  • nodatime

    Better date and time API for .NET

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Distributed Computing

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Distributed Computing / AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks

  • BeatPulse

    Enable load balancers to montior the status of deployed Web applications

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Distributed Computing

  • Foundatio

    Pluggable foundation blocks for building distributed apps

  • jasper

    Next generation application development framework for .NET

  • Rafty

    RAFT consensus in .NET Core

  • Obvs

    An observable microservice bus .NET library that wraps the underlying transport in simple Rx based interfaces

  • Ocelot

    API Gateway created using .NET Core

  • OpenTracing

    Vendor-neutral APIs and instrumentation for distributed tracing

  • Polly

    .NET 3.5 / 4.0 / 4.5 / PCL library that allows developers to express transient exception and fault handling policies such as Retry, Retry Forever, Wait and Retry or Circuit Breaker in a fluent manner

  • ProxyKit

    Toolkit to create code-first HTTP reverse proxies on ASP.NET Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / E-Commerce and Payments

  • nopCommerce

    Free open-source ecommerce shopping cart (ASP.NET MVC / ASP.NET Core MVC ) with a vast community and a market place full of new features, themes and plugins

  • GrandNode

    Multi-platform, free, open source ecommerce shopping cart based on ASP.NET Core 2.1 and MongoDB derived from

  • PayPal

    .NET SDK for PayPal's RESTful APIs

  • SimplCommerce

    Super simple ecommerce system built on .NET Core

  • Stripe

    Typed .NET clients for stripe.com REST APIs

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Exceptions

  • Demystifier

    High performance understanding for stack traces (Make error logs more productive)

  • Exceptionless

    Exceptionless .NET Client

  • GlobalExceptionHandlerDotNet

    GlobalExceptionHandlerDotNet allows you to configure exception handling as a convention with your ASP.NET Core application pipeline as opposed to explicitly handling them within each controller action

  • Sentry

    .NET SDK for Sentry, an Open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Functional Programming

  • CSharpFunctionalExtensions

    Functional Extensions for C#

  • DynamicData

    Reactive collections based on Rx.NET

  • echo-process

    Actor library for C# with additional modules that support persistence to Redis, as well as JS integration

  • FsCheck

    Random Testing for .NET

  • Giraffe

    A native functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F# developers

  • language-ext

    C# functional language extensions and 'Erlang like' concurrency system

  • LaYumba.Functional

    Utility library for programming functionally in C#

  • NetMQ.ReactiveExtensions

    Effortlessly send messages anywhere on the network using Reactive Extensions (RX). Transport protocol is ZeroMQ

  • Optional

    A robust option type for C#

  • ReactiveUI

    A MVVM framework that integrates with the Reactive Extensions for .NET to create elegant, testable User Interfaces that run on any mobile or desktop platform

  • Rx.NET

    The for .NET

  • Qactive

    Reactive queryable observable framework

  • sodium

    Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) Library

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Graphics

  • GLFWDotNet

    .NET bindings for GLFW

  • ImageProcessor

    A fluent wrapper around System.Drawing for the processing of image files

  • ImageSharp

    Cross-platform library for processing of image files written in C#

  • LibVLCSharp

    : .NET/Mono bindings for libvlc, the multimedia framework powering the VLC applications made by VideoLAN

  • Magick.NET

    The .NET library for ImageMagick

  • MagicScaler

    MagicScaler high-performance, high-quality image processing pipeline for .NET

  • QRCoder

    A pure C# Open Source QR Code implementation

  • SharpBgfx

    C# bindings for the bgfx graphics library

  • Structure.Sketching

    Image processing library for use in .NET applications that supports .NET Core

  • veldrid

    A low-level, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics library for .NET

  • ZXing.Net

    .Net port of the original java-based barcode reader and generator library zxing

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / GUI

  • AdonisUI

    Lightweight UI toolkit for WPF applications offering classic but enhanced windows visuals

  • Avalonia

    A multi-platform .NET UI framework (formerly known as Perspex)

  • AvaloniaEdit

    The Avalonia-based text editor component forked from - Contains some simple and commonly used WPF controls

  • Lara

    Lara Web Engine is a library for developing Web user interfaces in C#

  • ShellProgressBar

    library to create progress bars in console programs

  • Qml.Net

    A cross-platform Qml/.NET integration for Mono/.NET/.NET Core

  • WinApi

    A simple, direct, ultra-thin CLR library for high-performance Win32 Native Interop with automation, windowing, DirectX, OpenGL and Skia helpers

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / IDE

  • Mono

    MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and web applications on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It also makes it easy for developers to port .NET applications created with Visual Studio to Linux and Mac OS X maintaining a single code base for all platforms

  • rider

    Cross-platform C# IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper

  • Omnisharp

    Family of Open Source projects, each with one goal: To enable a great .NET experience in YOUR editor of choice

  • SharpDevelop

    SharpDevelop is a free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C#, VB.NET, Boo, IronPython, IronRuby and F# projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is written (almost) entirely in C#, and comes with features you would expect in an IDE plus a few more

  • Visual Studio Code

    New type of tool that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. Code provides comprehensive editing and debugging support, an extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools

  • Visual Studio Community

    Free editor for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Internationalization

  • Localization

    Localization abstractions and implementations for ASP.NET Core applications

  • NetCoreStack.Localization

    Database Resource Localization for .NET Core with Entity Framework and In Memory Cache

  • Westwind.Globalization

    Database driven resource localization for .NET applications

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / IOC

  • AutoDI

    Super-fast compile-time dependency injection using IL weaving

  • Autofac

    Addictive .NET IoC container

  • Castle.Windsor

    Castle Windsor is a best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET

  • DryIoc

    Fast, small, full-featured IoC Container for .NET

  • Grace

    Grace is a feature rich Dependency Injection Container designed with ease of use and performance in mind

  • Inyector

    Dependency Injection Automation for AspNetCore

  • Lamar

    Fast Inversion of Control Tool and Sundry Items of Roslyn Chicanery

  • LightInject

    Ultra lightweight IoC container

  • SimpleInjector

    Easy, flexible, and fast Dependency Injection library that promotes best practice to steer developers towards the pit of success

  • Stashbox

    A lightweight, portable dependency injection framework for .NET based solutions

  • Unity

    A lightweight, extensible dependency injection container

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Logging

  • common-logging

    Portable logging abstraction for .NET

  • dnxcore-logging-logstash

    Logstash logging extension for .NET Core applications with UDP and Redis transports

  • ElmahCore

    Error logging library that includes features like error filtering and the ability to view the error log from a web page

  • Exceptionless

    Exceptionless .NET Client

  • Foundatio

    A fluent logging api that can be used to log messages throughout your application

  • Karambolo.Extensions.Logging.File

    A lightweight library which implements file logging for the built-in .NET Core logging framework (Microsoft.Extensions.Logging)

  • LibLog

    Single file for you to either copy/paste or install via nuget, into your library/ framework/ application to provide a logging abstraction

  • log4net

    log4net is a port of the excellent Apache log4j™ framework to the Microsoft® .NET runtime

  • NLog

    Advanced .NET, Silverlight and Xamarin Logging with support for structured and non structured logging

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Logging / NLog

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Logging

  • Q42.Logging.ApplicationInsights

    Log appender for the build in ASP.NET Core logging to send all logs to Application Insights

  • serilog

    Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Logging / serilog

  • serilog-aspnetcore

    Serilog integration for ASP.NET Core 2+

  • Serilog.Exceptions

    Serilog.Exceptions is an add-on to to log exception details and custom properties that are not output in Exception.ToString()

  • Serilog.Settings.Configuration

    A Serilog configuration provider that reads from Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Logging

  • SEQ

    Seq collects data over HTTP, while your applications use the best available structured logging APIs for your platform

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Machine Learning and Data Science

  • Accord

    Machine learning, computer vision, statistics and general scientific computing for .NET

  • Catalyst

    Cross-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

  • ML.NET

    Cross-platform open-source machine learning framework which makes machine learning accessible to .NET developers

  • Spreads

    Series and Panels for Real-time and Exploratory Analysis of Data Streams

  • TensorFlowSharp

    TensorFlow API for .NET languages

  • WaveFunctionCollapse

    itmap & tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics

  • SiaNet

    A C# deep learning library, human friendly, CUDA/OpenCL supported, well structured, easy to extend

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Mail

  • FluentEmail

    All in one email sender for .NET and .NET Core

  • MailBody

    Create transactional email with a fluent interface (.NET)

  • MailKit

    Cross-platform .NET library for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP

  • MailMergeLib

    SMTP mail client library which provides comfortable mail merge capabilities for text, inline images and attachments, as well as good throughput and fault tolerance for sending mail messages

  • MimeKit

    Cross-platform .NET MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, DKIM, TNEF and Unix mbox spools

  • netDumbster

    a .Net Fake SMTP Server used for testing. Clone of the popular Dumbster

  • Papercut

    Simple Desktop SMTP Server

  • PreMailer.Net

    C# library that moves your stylesheets to inline style attributes, for maximum compatibility with E-mail clients

  • SendGrid Client

    C# library for the SendGrid v3 mail endpoint

  • SmtpServer

    Library to create your own SMTP server

  • 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

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Mathematics

  • AutoDiff

    A library that provides fast, accurate and automatic differentiation (computes derivative / gradient) of mathematical functions

  • UnitConversion

    Expansible Unit Conversion Library for .NET Core and .NET Framework

  • UnitsNet

    Units.NET gives you all the common units of measurement and the conversions between them

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Media

  • MetadataExtractor

    Extracts metadata from media (images, video, audio) with a simple to use API

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Misc

  • AdvanceDLSupport

    Library to improve P/Invoke-ing native code. Interact with native objects as if they were first class objects

  • AngleSharp

    The ultimate angle brackets parser library. It parses HTML5, MathML, SVG and CSS to construct a DOM based on the official W3C specification. Comparable to beautifulsoup4 of python

  • AgileMapper

    AgileMapper is a zero-configuration, highly-configurable object-object mapper with viewable execution plans

  • AspNetCore Extension Library

    ASP.NET Core Extension Library

  • AutoMapper

    Convention-based object-object mapper in .NET

  • Baget

    A lightweight NuGet server

  • Bleak

    A Windows native DLL injection library

  • Bullseye

    A .NET package for describing and running targets and their dependencies

  • Castle.Core

    Castle Core, including Castle DynamicProxy, Logging Services and DictionaryAdapter

  • Chessie

    Railway-oriented programming for .NET

  • CliWrap

    Wrapper for command line interfaces

  • commanddotnet

    Model your command line application interface in a class

  • CommonMark.NET

    The implementation of CommonMark specification in C# for converting Markdown documents to HTML

  • ConsoleTableExt

    Fluent library to create table for .NET console application

  • CoordinateSharp

    A library that can quickly format and convert geographic coordinates as well as provide location based sun and moon information (sunset, sunrise, moon illumination, etc...)

  • datatables

    Microsoft ASP.NET server-side support and helpers for jQuery DataTables

  • DinkToPdf

    C# .NET Core wrapper for wkhtmltopdf library that uses Webkit engine to convert HTML pages to PDF

  • dotnet-env

    A .NET library to load environment variables from .env files

  • DotNet.Glob

    A fast globbing library for .NET / .NETStandard applications. Outperforms Regex

  • Dotnet outdated

    A .NET Core global tool to display and update outdated NuGet packages in a project

  • Dotnet Script

    Run C# scripts from the .NET CLI

  • Dotnet Serve

    Simple command-line HTTP server for .NET Core CLI

  • Downloader

    Downloader is a modern, fluent, asynchronous, testable and portable library for .NET. This is a multipart downloader with asynchronous progress events

  • Eighty

    A simple HTML generation library

  • Enums.NET

    Enums.NET is a high-performance type-safe .NET enum utility library

  • FastExpressionCompiler

    Fast ExpressionTree compiler to delegate

  • FluentDocker

    Commands, Services and Fluent API for docker, docker-compose & docker-machine, for win/mac/linux and native docker

  • FluentFTP

    FTP and FTPS client, with extensive FTP commands, SSL/TLS connections, hashing/checksums and more

  • Fody

    Extensible tool for weaving .net assemblies

  • HdrHistogram.NET

    High Dynamic Range (HDR) Histogram

  • httpclient-interception

    .NET Standard library for intercepting server-side HTTP dependencies

  • Humanizer

    Humanizer meets all your .NET needs for manipulating and displaying strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities

  • Humidifier

    Write and maintain AWS Cloudformation templates using C#

  • impromptu-interface

    Static interface to dynamic implementation (duck casting). Uses the DLR combined with Reflect.Emit

  • JqueryDataTablesServerSide

    ASP.NET Core Server Side Processing library for Jquery DataTables with Multiple Column Filtering, Sorting and Pagination at database level with Excel Export and TagHelper support

  • LibSass Host

    .NET wrapper around the library with the ability to support a virtual file system

  • markdig

    Fast, powerfull, CommonMark compliant, extensible Markdown processor for .NET

  • NetCoreBeauty

    Simple library to move a .NET Core app runtime components and dependencies into a sub-directory and make it beauty

  • NFlags

    Simple library to made parsing CLI arguments easy. Library also allow to print usage help "out of box"

  • NReco.LambdaParser

    Parses string expressions (formulas, methods calls, conditions) to LINQ expression tree that can be compiled to lambda and evaluated

  • NuGet Trends

    Website with statistics of NuGet packages download count

  • NYoutubeDL

    A simple youtube-dl library for C#/.NET

  • Otp.NET

    An implementation TOTP RFC 6238 and HOTP RFC 4226 in C#

  • pose

    Replace any .NET method (including static and non-virtual) with a delegate

  • PuppeteerSharp

    Puppeteer Sharp is a .NET port of the official Node.JS Puppeteer API

  • readline

    Pure C# GNU-Readline like library for .NET/.NET Core

  • ReflectionMagic

    Framework to drastically simplify your private reflection code using C# dynamic

  • Relinq

    With re-linq, it's now easier than ever to create full-featured LINQ providers

  • Remote.Linq

    Remote Linq is a small and easy to use - yet very powerful - library to translate LINQ expression trees to strongly typed, serializable expression trees and vice versa

  • ReverseMarkdown

    Html to Markdown converter library

  • PdfReport.Core

    PdfReport.Core is a code first reporting engine, which is built on top of the iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core and EPPlus.Core libraries

  • Scientist

    .NET library for carefully refactoring critical paths. It's a port of GitHub's Ruby Scientist library

  • Scrutor

    Assembly scanning extensions for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

  • Sheller

    A .NET library that makes shelling out commands super easy and fluent

  • SmartFormat.NET

    An extensible replacement for string.Format

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Misc / Stocks

  • Trady

    Handy library for computing technical indicators, and it targets to be an automated trading system that provides stock data feeding, indicator computing, strategy building and automatic trading

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Misc

  • System.Linq.Dynamic.Core

    The .NET Standard (.NET Core) version from the System Linq Dynamic functionality

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Misc / Validation

  • FluentValidation

    Small validation library for .NET that uses a fluent interface and lambda expressions for building validation rules

  • FormHelper

    Form & Validation Helper for ASP.NET Core. Form Helper helps you to create ajax forms and validations without writing any javascript code. (Compatible with Fluent Validation)

  • Guard

    A high-performance, extensible argument validation library

  • Valit

    A dead simple validation for .NET Core. No more if-statements all around your code. Write nice and clean fluent validators instead!

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Misc

  • Vanara

    A set of .NET libraries for Windows implementing PInvoke calls to many native Windows APIs with supporting wrappers

  • warden-stack

    "health checks" for your applications, resources and infrastructure. Keep your Warden on the watch

  • WebEssentials.AspNetCore.ServiceWorker

    ASP.NET Core Progressive Web Apps

  • 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

  • YoutubeExplode

    Ultimate library for extracting metadata and downloading Youtube videos and playlists

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Networking

  • AspNetCore.Proxy

    ASP.NET Core Proxies made easy

  • CurlThin

    Lightweight cURL binding library for C# with support for multiple simultaneous transfers through curl_multi interface

  • NETStandard.HttpListener

    HttpListener for .NET Core (NETStandard)

  • Networker

    A simple to use TCP and UDP networking library for .NET, designed to be flexible, scalable and FAST

  • SharpPcap

    Fully managed, cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) .NET library for capturing packets from live and file based devices

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Office

  • EPPlus

    Create advanced Excel spreadsheets using .NET

  • npoi

    .NET library that can read/write Office formats without Microsoft Office installed. No COM+, no interop

  • Open-XML-SDK

    The Open XML SDK provides tools for working with Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Operating System

  • CosmosOS

    Cosmos is an operating system "construction kit". Build your own OS using managed languages such as C#, VB.NET, and more!

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / ORM

  • Chloe

    A lightweight and high-performance Object/Relational Mapping(ORM) library for .NET

  • Entity Framework Core

    Familiar developer experience to previous versions of EF, including LINQ, POCO, and Code First support

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / ORM / Entity Framework Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / ORM

  • Dapper

    Simple object mapper for .NET

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / ORM / Dapper

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / ORM

  • FreeSql

    a convenient ORM in dotnet,supports Mysql, Postgresql, SqlServer, Oracle and Sqlite

  • Limebean

    Hybrid-ORM, designed to be simple to use and not totally hide SQL, while having all the nice things you expect from an ORM. Inspired by RedBeanPHP

  • LINQ to DB (linq2db)

    The fastest LINQ database access library offering a simple, lightweight, fast, and type-safe layer between your POCO objects and your database for more than 10 database engines with full SQL support

  • nhibernate-core

    NHibernate Object Relational Mapper

  • NEventStore

    Persistence library used to abstract different storage implementations when using event sourcing as storage mechanism. This library is developed with a specific focus on DDD/CQRS applications

  • NPoco

    Simple microORM that maps the results of a query onto a POCO object. Project based on Schotime's branch of PetaPoco

  • NReco.Data

    Lightweight provider-independent DAL for SQL commands generation, CRUD operations and simple POCO mapping

  • PetaPoco

    A tiny ORM-ish thing for your POCO's

  • querybuilder

    SqlKata Query Builder is a powerful Sql Query Builder written in C#

  • RepoDb

    A hybrid ORM library for .NET

  • ServiceStack.OrmLite

    Light, simple and fast convention-based POCO ORM

  • SqlFu

    Fast and versatile Micro-ORM

  • SmartSql

    SmartSql = MyBatis + Cache(Memory | Redis) + ZooKeeper + R/W Splitting +Dynamic Repository

  • SQLStreamStore

    Stream Store library targeting SQL based implementations for .NET

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Profiling

  • Glimpse

    Lightweight, open-source, real-time diagnostics and insights profiler for .NET

  • MiniProfiler

    A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET websites

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Query Builders

  • SqlKata

    Elegant Sql Query Builder, that supports complex queries, joins, sub queries, nested where conditions, vendor engine targets and more

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Queue and Messaging

  • emitter

    Free open source real-time messaging service that connects all devices. This publish-subscribe messaging API is built for speed and security

  • EasyNetQ

    An easy to use .NET API for RabbitMQ

  • EventStore

    The open-source, functional database with Complex Event Processing in JavaScript

  • Foundatio

    A common interface with in memory, redis and azure implementations

  • MediatR

    Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET

  • MediatR.Extensions.Microsoft.DependencyInjection

    MediatR extensions for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

  • Mediator.Net

    A simple mediator for .Net for sending command, publishing event and request response with pipelines supported

  • MicroBus

    Simple in process mediator for .NET

  • MQTTnet

    MQTTnet is a high performance .NET library for MQTT based communication

  • netmq

    100% native C# implementation of ZeroMQ for .NET

  • NServiceBus

    NServiceBus is part of the , which contains tools to build, monitor, and debug distributed systems

  • OpenCQRS

    .NET Core library for DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing with Azure Service Bus integration. Supported database providers for the Command and the Event stores are: DocumentDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite

  • rabbitmq-dotnet-client

    RabbitMQ .NET client

  • RawRabbit

    Modern .NET framework for communication over RabbitMq

  • Rebus

    Simple and lean service bus implementation for .NET

  • Restbus

    Messaging library for RabbitMq

  • Silverback

    Framework to build event-driven applications (support for Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT)

  • Tossit

    Simple, easy to use library for distributed job/worker logic. Distributed messages handled by built in RabbitMQ implementation

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Reporting

  • FastReport

    The open source report generator for .NET Core 2.x/.Net Framework 4.x. FastReport can be used in MVC, Web API applications

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Scheduler and Job

  • Chroniton.NetCore

    Lightweight robust library for running tasks(jobs) on schedules

  • Coravel

    .Net Core meets Laravel: Scheduling, Queuing, etc

  • FluentScheduler

    Automated job scheduler with fluent interface

  • Gofer.NET

    Easy C# API for Distributed Background Tasks/Jobs for .NET Core. Inspired by celery for python

  • HangfireIO

    Easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring tasks inside ASP.NET apps

  • LiquidState

    Efficient asynchronous and synchronous state machines for .NET

  • NCrontab

    Crontab for .NET

  • quartznet

    Quartz Enterprise Scheduler .NET

  • stateless

    Simple library for creating state machines in C# code

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / SDKs

  • AWS SDK

    The Amazon Web Services (AWS) .NET Core SDK components. Each AWS service has its own NuGet package

  • azure-event-hubs-dotnet

    .NET Standard client library for Azure Event Hubs

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / SDKs / Blockchain clients

  • Bittrex.Net

    C# .Net wrapper for the Bittrex web API including all features easily accessible and usable

  • Binance.Net

    .Net API wrapper for the Binance web API

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / SDKs

  • CakeMail.RestClient

    Client for CakeMail's API. Allows you to send transactional emails, bulk emails, manage lists and contacts, etc

  • consuldotnet

    .NET API for Consul

  • csharp-nats

    C# .NET client for the NATS messaging system

  • DarkSkyCore

    A .NET Standard wrapper for the

  • Docker.DotNet

    .NET (C#) Client Library for Docker API

  • firebase-admin-dotnet

    Firebase Admin .NET SDK

  • google-cloud-dotnet

    Google Cloud Client Libraries for .NET

  • Manatee.Trello

    A fully object-oriented .Net wrapper for Trello's RESTful API written in C#

  • Microphone

    Lightweight framework to run self hosting REST services using Web Api or NancyFx ontop of a Consul or ETCD cluster

  • octokit.net

    GitHub API client library for .NET

  • PreStorm

    Parallel REST Client for ArcGIS Server

  • SendGrid-csharp

    C# client library for using the full SendGrid API

  • statsd-csharp-client

    .NET Standard compatible C# client to interface with Etsy's excellent server

  • tweetinvi

    Intuitive .NET C# library to access the Twitter REST and STREAM API

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Security

  • aspnetcore-security-headers

    Middleware for adding security headers to an ASP.NET Core application

  • HtmlSanitizer

    Cleans HTML to avoid XSS attacks

  • jose-jwt

    Library for processing JOSE objects (JWT, JWA, JWS and related)

  • Jwt.Net

    Jwt.Net, a JWT (JSON Web Token) implementation for .NET

  • JWT Simple Server

    A lightweight, dynamic jwt server for ASP.NET Core

  • NWebsec

    Security libraries for ASP.NET

  • reCAPTCHA

    reCAPTCHA 2.0 for ASP.NET Core

  • roslyn-security-guard

    Roslyn analyzers that aim to help security audit on .NET applications

  • OwaspHeaders

    .NET Core middleware for injecting the Owasp recommended HTTP Headers for increased security

  • Security

    Middleware for security and authorization of web apps

  • SecurityHeaders

    Small package to allow adding security headers to ASP.NET Core websites

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Searching

  • Algolia.Search

    Repository for the official Algolia .NET client

  • AutoComplete

    Persistent, simple, powerful and portable autocomplete library

  • Elasticsearch.Net & NEST

    Repository for both NEST and Elasticsearch.NET, the two official elasticsearch .NET clients

  • ElasticsearchCRUD

    Elasticsearch .NET API

  • SearchExtensions

    Advanced search capabilities for IQueryable interfaces, such as Entity Framework queries

  • SimMetrics.Net

    A Similarity Metric Library, e.g. from edit distance's (Levenshtein, Gotoh, Jaro etc) to other metrics, (e.g Soundex, Chapman)

  • SolrExpress

    Simple and lightweight query .NET library for Solr, in a controlled, buildable and fail fast way

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Serialization

  • BinarySerializer

    Serialization for custom packet and protocol formats, supports bit-twiddling

  • bond

    Cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language de/serialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services

  • Channels

    Push based .NET Streams

  • CsvHelper

    Library to help reading and writing CSV files

  • Edi.Net

    EDI Serializer/Deserializer. Supports EDIFact, X12 and TRADACOMS format

  • ExtendedXmlSerializer

    Extended Xml Serializer for .NET

  • Jil

    Fast .NET JSON (De)Serializer, Built On Sigil

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Serialization / MessagePack

  • msgpack-cli

    MessagePack implementation for Common Language Infrastructure /

  • MessagePack-CSharp

    Extremely Fast MessagePack Serializer for C#(.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin)

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Serialization

  • Newtonsoft.Json

    Popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET

  • protobuf-net

    Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET

  • Schema.NET

    Schema.org objects turned into strongly typed C# POCO classes for use in .NET. All classes can be serialized into JSON/JSON-LD and XML, typically used to represent structured data in the head section of html page

  • ServiceStack.Text

    JSON, JSV and CSV Text Serializers

  • TinyCsvParser

    Easy to use, easy to extend and high-performance library for CSV parsing with .NET

  • Wire

    Binary serializer for POCO objects

  • ZeroFormatter

    Fast binary (de)serializer for .NET

  • Utf8Json

    Definitely Fastest and Zero Allocation JSON Serializer for C#(NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin)

  • YAXLib

    XML Serialization Library for the .NET Framework and .NET Core. Extremely flexible and powerful

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Template Engine

  • dotliquid

    .NET Port of Tobias Lütke's Liquid template language

  • fluid

    Open-source .NET template engine that is as close as possible to the Liquid template language

  • Portable.Xaml

    Portable .NET library for reading/writing xaml files

  • Razor

    Parser and code generator for CSHTML files used in view pages for MVC web apps

  • RazorLight

    Template engine based on Microsoft's Razor parsing engine for .NET Core

  • Scriban

    A fast, powerful, safe and lightweight text templating language and engine for .NET

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Testing

  • Atata

    Web UI test automation full-featured framework based on Selenium WebDriver

  • Bogus

    Simple and sane fake data generator for C#. Based on and ported from the famed faker.js

  • CoreBDD

    BDD framework for xUnit.net

  • FakeItEasy

    The easy mocking library for .NET

  • FluentAssertions

    Set of .NET extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style test

  • GenFu

    Library you can use to generate realistic test data

  • LightBDD

    BDD framework allowing to create easy to read and maintain tests

  • mockhttp

    Testing layer for Microsoft's HttpClient library

  • moq.netcore

    Most popular and friendly mocking framework for .NET

  • MSpec

    Popular testing framework for writing BDD-style tests

  • MyTested.AspNetCore.Mvc

    Fluent testing framework for ASP.NET Core MVC

  • Netling

    Load tester client for easy web testing

  • NSpec

    Battle hardened testing framework for C# that's heavily inspired by Mocha and RSpec

  • NSubstitute

    A friendly substitute for .NET mocking frameworks

  • nunit

    NUnit test runner for .NET Core

  • shouldly

    Should testing for .NET - the way Asserting be!

  • SpecFlow

    Pragmatic BDD solution for .NET. It uses the Gherkin specification language and integrates to Visual Studio

  • Storyteller

    Executable Specifications for .NET

  • Stubbery

    A simple library for creating and running Api stubs in .NET

  • Testavior

    Testavior is a lightweight solution to help you develop Behavior Tests for ASP.NET Core

  • TestStack.BDDfy

    The simplest BDD framework EVER!

  • xBehave.net

    An xUnit.net extension for describing your tests using natural language

  • xUnit.net

    A free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Tools

  • LibMan CLI

    Client-side content manager for web apps

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Web Framework / WebAssembly

  • Blazor

    UI framework running .NET in the browser via WebAssembly

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Web Framework / WebAssembly / Blazor

  • Awesome Blazor

    Collection of awesome resources (samples, components, articles, videos and others) about Blazor

  • Blazor Redux

    Connecting a Redux state store with Blazor

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Web Framework / WebAssembly

  • Ooui

    Small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Web Framework

  • ReactJS.NET

    .NET library for JSX compilation and server-side rendering of React components

  • redux.NET

    Predictable state container for .NET apps. Inspired by

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Web Socket

  • Fleck

    Fleck is a WebSocket server implementation in C#. Fleck requires no inheritance, container, or additional references

  • SignalR Server

    Real-time web functionality for web apps, including server-side push

  • SuperSocket

    Light weight, cross platform and extensible socket server application framework

  • WampSharp

    C# implementation of - Protocol that provides messaging patterns of Remote Procedure Calls and Publish/Subscribe over WebSockets

  • websocket-manager

    Real-Time library for ASP .NET Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Windows Service

  • dotnet-win32-service

    Set up and run as Windows Service directly from .NET Core

  • Topshelf

    Easy service hosting framework for building Windows services using .NET

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Workflow

  • CoreWF

    Port of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) to .NET Core

  • workflow-core

    Lightweight workflow engine for .NET Standard

  • WorkflowEngine.NET

    Component that adds workflow in your application

  • Wexflow

    A high performance, extensible, modular and cross-platform workflow engine

Roadmaps

Starter Kits

  • Arch

    The collection of .NET Core libraries that are created by software architects who embrace all the new stuff in .NET Core

Starter Kits / Arch

  • AutoHistory

    A plugin for Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore to support automatically recording data changes history

Starter Kits

  • AspNetCore-Angular2-Universal

    Cross-platform - w/ server-side rendering for SEO, Bootstrap, i18n internationalization (ngx-translate), Webpack, TypeScript, unit testing w/ Karma, WebAPI REST setup, SignalR, Swagger docs, and more!

  • ASP.NET Core Starter Kit

    Opinionated boilerplate for web development based on .NET Core, Kestrel, GraphQL on the backend and Babel, Webpack, React and Redux on the frontend. This boilerplate comes in both C# and F# flavors

  • aspnetcore-spa generator

    Yeoman generator to build a brand-new ASP.NET Core single page application that uses Angular 2 / React / React With Redux / Knockout / Aurelia on the client

  • ASP.Net Core Vue Starter

    Asp.NETCore 2.0 Vue 2 (ES6) SPA Starter kit, contains routing, Vuex, and more!

  • bitwarden-core

    The core infrastructure backend (API, database, etc)

  • dotNetify

    Simple, lightweight, yet powerful way to build real-time HTML5/C# .NET web apps

  • generator-aspnet

    yo generator for ASP.NET Core

  • Nucleus

    Vue startup application template that uses ASP.NET Core API layered architecture at the back-end and JWT based authentication

  • react-aspnet-boilerplate

    Starting point for building isomorphic React applications with ASP.NET Core 1, leveraging existing techniques

  • saaskit

    Developer toolkit for building SaaS applications

  • serverlessDotNetStarter

    starter kit for development and deployment of lambda functions in the AWS cloud based on serverless framework

Sample Projects / Microservices & Service Mesh

  • clean-architecture-dotnet

    Apply Minimal Clean Architecture with DDD-lite, CQRS-lite, and just enough Cloud-native patterns on eCommerce sample business domain

  • coolstore-microservices

    A Kubernetes-based polyglot microservices application with Istio service mesh

  • distributed-playground

    Distributed service playground with Vagrant, Consul, Docker & ASP.NET Core

  • DNC-DShop

    Distributed .NET Core project and free course. (DDD, CQRS, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Redis, Monitoring, Logging, CI, CD)

  • dotnetcore-microservices-poc

    simplified insurance sales system made in a microservices architecture using .NET Core (EF Core, MediatR, Marten, Eureka, Ocelot, RabbitMQ, Polly, ElasticSearch, Dapper) with blog post series

  • eShop

    A reference .NET application implementing an eCommerce site

  • InMemoryCQRSReplication

    Akka.NET Reference Architecture - CQRS + Sharding + In-Memory Replication

  • magazine-website

    Magazine website (using .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core) with DDD, CQRS, microservices, asynchronous programming applied

  • microservices-in-dotnetcore

    The code sample from the second edition of

  • Practical.CleanArchitecture

    Full-stack .Net 8 Clean Architecture (Microservices, Modular Monolith, Monolith), Blazor, Angular 18, React 18, Vue 3, BFF with YARP, Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, SOLID, Asp.Net Core Identity Custom Storage, OpenID Connect, Entity Framework Core, OpenTelemetry, SignalR, Hosted Services, Health Checks, Rate Limiting, Cloud Services (Azure, AWS, GCP)

  • practical-dapr

    Full-stack .NET microservices build on Dapr and Tye

  • ReactiveTraderCloud

    Real-time trading platform demo showcasing reactive programming principles applied across the full application stack

Sample Projects / Monoliths

  • AlbumViewerVNext

    West Wind Album Viewer ASP.NET 5 Sample

  • allReady

    Open-source solution focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns as they are delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities

  • AspNet5GeoElasticsearch

    ASP.NET Core MVC Geo Elasticsearch Swashbuckle Swagger

  • aspnet-servicediscovery-patterns

    Samples of implementing Service Discovery patterns with ASP.NET Core

  • AspNetAuthorizationWorkshop

    A workshop for moving through the various new pieces in ASP.NET Core Authorization

  • BikeSharing360 Suite of Apps from Microsoft

    Presented December Connect 2016 Conference, a compreshsive set of interworking apps for both enterprise users and the consumers (bike riders): , , , , , ,

  • Clean Architecture Manga

    Clean Architecture sample with .NET Core 3.0 and C# 8. Use cases as central organising structure, completely testable, decoupled from frameworks

  • cloudscribe

    ASP.NET Core Multi-tenant web application foundation

  • CoreCodeCamp

    An Open Source Website for running small, local development events

  • DotNetClub

    Tiny club written in ASP.NET Core

  • eShopOnWeb

    A layered application architecture with monolithic deployment model

  • Entropy

    Chaotic experimental playground for new features and ideas - check here for small and simple samples for individual features

  • EquinoxProject

    Full ASP.NET Core 2.0 application with DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing

  • GenVue

    a hostable, web application that lets confidential users upload and share private files build on Vue.js, Vuetifyjs and NetCore WebAPI stack

  • guidance-identity-management-for-multitenant-apps

    How to manage user identities in a multitenant app on Microsoft Azure, using Azure Active Directory for authentication

  • JustA.ML

    A web application that lets you share files/URL/text between your devices written in ASP.NET Core 2.0. Open source, live at

  • MegaMine

    Open source mining solution that helps miners in extracting Gold, Quartz, Granite etc. This solution is built using ASP.NET Core and AngularJS utilizing multiple light weight components in a Microservices way

  • MusicStore

    Sample MusicStore application that uses MVC and Entity Framework

  • NLayerAppV3

    NLayerAppV3 N-Layered Architecture with .NET Core Preview 2

  • NorthwindTraders

    Northwind Traders is a sample application built using ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core

  • Orchard Core - Modular and Multi-tenant applications

    Use Orchard Core Framework to create Modular and Multi-tenant applications

  • PhotoGallery

    Cross-platform Single Page Applications with ASP.NET Core, Angular 2 & TypeScript

  • PokeR

    Realtime scrum poker using SignalR and Angular in ASP.NET Core's SPA hosting. Includes Docker support

  • Practical ASP.NET Core

    A daily updated micro samples of ASP.NET Core features and facilities

  • Practical.CleanArchitecture

    Full-stack .Net 8 Clean Architecture (Microservices, Modular Monolith, Monolith), Blazor, Angular 18, React 18, Vue 3, BFF with YARP, Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, SOLID, Asp.Net Core Identity Custom Storage, OpenID Connect, Entity Framework Core, OpenTelemetry, SignalR, Hosted Services, Health Checks, Rate Limiting, Cloud Services (Azure, AWS, GCP)

  • Sample .NET Core CQRS REST API

    .NET Core REST API CQRS implementation with raw SQL and DDD using Clean Architecture

  • StarWars

    GraphQL 'Star Wars' example using GraphQL for .NET, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core

Articles / Basic knowledge

Articles / Cloud Development

Articles / Configuration and deployment

Articles / Entity Framework Core

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Articles / Security

Articles / Testing

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