awesome-dotnet-core
by thangchung
A collection of awesome .NET core libraries, tools, frameworks and software
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A categorized collection of well-known resources and tools for .NET Core development
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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
MicroElements.Swashbuckle.FluentValidation
Adds FluentValidation rules to swagger
Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.Filters
A bunch of useful filters for Swashbuckle.AspNetCore
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
IdentityServer4.EntityFramework
EntityFramework persistence layer
IdentityServer4.MongoDB
MongoDB persistence layer
IdentityServer4.EntityFrameworkCore
Entity Framework Core persistence layer
IdentityServer4.Templates
dotnet cli templates for IdentityServer4
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
Prometheus.Client.MetricPusher
Push metrics to a PushGateaway for the Prometheus.Client
Prometheus.Client.AspNetCore
Middleware for the Prometheus.Client
Prometheus.Client.MetricServer
MetricServer for the Prometheus.Client
Prometheus.Client.HttpRequestDurations
Metrics logging of request durations for the 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
cassandra-csharp-driver
DataStax C# Driver for Apache Cassandra
confluent-kafka-dotnet
Confluent's Apache Kafka .NET client
couchbase-lite-net
A lightweight, document-oriented (NoSQL), syncable database engine for .NET
MongoDB.Driver
.NET Driver for MongoDB
MongoDB.Entities
A data access library for MongoDB with an elegant api, LINQ support and built-in entity relationship management
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
neo4j-dotnet-driver
Neo4j Bolt driver for .NET
Neo4jClient
.NET client binding for 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
AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks
Enterprise HealthChecks for ASP.NET Core Diagnostics Package
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#
reactive-streams-dotnet
for .NET
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
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
NLog for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core
NLog integration for ASP.NET & ASP.NET Core 1-3
NLog.Extensions.Logging
NLog Provider for Microsoft.Extensions.Logging for .NET Standard libraries and .NET Core applications
NLog.Windows.Forms
NLog targets specific for Windows.Forms
NLog.MailKit
Alternative Mail target using the using MailKit library
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
EFCore.BulkExtensions
EntityFrameworkCore Bulk Batch Extensions for Insert Update Delete Read (CRUD) ops
- EFCore.Visualizer
View Entity Framework Core query plan directly in Visual Studio
EntityFramework-Plus
Entity Framework Utilities | Bulk Operations | Batch Delete | Batch Update | Query Cache | Query Filter | Query Future | Query Include | Audit
EntityFramework.Exceptions
Use typed Exceptions for EntityFrameworkCore when your SQL query violates database constraints in SqlServer, MySql, or PostgreSQL
EntityFramework.Triggers
Trigger events for EF
EntityFramework.Rx
Reactive observables of your EF operations
Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL
Entity Framework Core provider for PostgreSQL
EntityFramework.PrimaryKey
Easily get the primary key of any entity (including composite keys)
EntityFramework.TypedOriginalValues
Get a proxy object of the original values of your entity (typed access to Property("...").OriginalValue)
EntityFramework.VersionedProperties
Classes which auto-magically keep an audit history of the changes to the specified property
EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.SimpleBulks
Simple library that can help to sync a large number of records in-memory into the database. Lambda Expression is supported
LINQKit
A free set of extensions for LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework power users
Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql
Entity Framework Core provider for MySql built on top of mysql-net/MySqlConnector
spectre.query
A simple query language for Entity Framework Core
Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / ORM
Dapper
Simple object mapper for .NET
Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / ORM / Dapper
Dapper-FluentMap
Provides a simple API to fluently map POCO properties to database columns when using Dapper
Dommel
Simple CRUD operations for Dapper
MicroOrm.Dapper.Repositories
CRUD for 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
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
YamlDotNet
.NET
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
ASP.NET Core Developer Roadmap
Roadmap to becoming an ASP.NET Core developer in 2019
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
- here
The comparison between .NET Core and Nodejs at , and
Articles / Cloud Development
Articles / Configuration and deployment
Articles / Entity Framework Core
Articles / Miraculous
Articles / Security
Articles / Testing
Articles
- InfoQ .NET articles
Collection of best .NET articles on InfoQ site
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