Awesome .NET!

A collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software.

Inspired by awesome-ruby, awesome-php, awesome-python, frontend-dev-bookmarks and ruby-bookmarks.

Contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines and quality standard pages first.

Thanks to all contributors, you're awesome and wouldn't be possible without you! The goal is to build a categorized community-driven collection of very well-known resources.

• Awesome DotNet

  • API
  • Assets
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Build Automation
  • Caching
  • CLI
  • CMS
  • Code Analysis and Metrics
  • Continuous Integration
  • Cryptography
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
  • DirectX
  • Documentation
  • E-Commerce and Payments
  • Environment Management
  • Graphics
  • IDE
  • Image Processing
  • Install Tools
  • Internationalization
  • IoC
  • Logging
  • Misc
  • Office
  • ORM
  • Package Management
  • Queue
  • SDK and API Clients
  • Search
  • Serialization
  • Style Guide
  • Testing
  • Visual Studio Plugins
  • Web Frameworks
  • Web Servers
  • WebSocket
  • Windows Services

• Other Awesome Lists

API

• Frameworks

  • ASP.NET WebAPI - Framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices
  • ServiceStack - Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all

• WebAPI Contrib - Collection of open source projects to help improve your work with ASP.NET Web API

Assets

• Cassette - Manages .NET web application assets (scripts, css and templates)
• NodeAssets - Asset Manager for .net that has live css updates using SignalR and can optionally leverage NodeJS compilers
• Bundler - Compile & Minify Less/Sass/Stylus/Css/JS/CoffeeScript/LiveScript files. Integrates with MVC and ServiceStack

Authentication and Authorization

• ASP.NET Identity - New membership system for ASP.NET applications
• DotNetOpenAuth - A C# implementation of the OpenID, OAuth and InfoCard protocols
• Thinktecture IdentityModel - Helper library for identity & access control in .NET 4.5 and MVC4/Web API.

Build Automation

• Psake - .NET-based build automation tool written in PowerShell
• FAKE - F# Make, a cross platform build automation system
• Invoke-Build - PowerShell build and test automation tool inspired by Psake.

Caching

• CacheCow - An ASP.NET Web API HTTP caching implementation both on client and server

CLI

• Command Line Parser - The Command Line Parser Library offers to CLR applications a clean and concise API for manipulating command line arguments and related tasks

CMS

• Umbraco - Umbraco is a free open source Content Management System built on the ASP.NET platform
• Composite C1 - A web CMS that focus on UX and adaptability
• Orchard - Free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on the ASP.NET platform
• mojoPortal - MojoPortal is an extensible, cross database, mobile friendly, web content management system (CMS) and web application framework written in C# ASP.NET

Code Analysis and Metrics

• StyleCop - StyleCop analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of style and consistency rules
• Gendarme - Extensible rule-based tool to find problems in .NET applications and libraries

##Continuous Integration

• TeamCity - Ready to work, extensible and developer-friendly build server — out of the box

Cryptography

• HashLib - HashLib is a collection of nearly all hash algorithms you've ever seen, it supports almost everything and is very easy to use

Database

• BrightstarDb - BrightstarDB is a native .NET RDF triple store

Database Drivers

• MySQL Connector - Connector/Net is a fully-managed ADO.NET driver for MySQL
• Npgsql - .Net data provider for Postgresql
• Mongo csharp driver
• ServiceStack Redis - .NET's leading C# Redis Client

DirectX

• SlimDX - DirectX framework wrapper for .NET applications

Documentation

• Sandcastle - Sandcastle Help File Builder similar to NDoc
• SharpDox - A c# documentation tool

E-Commerce and Payments

• Paypal Merchant SDK - Official Paypal Merchant SDK for .NET

Environment Management

• KVM

Graphics

• Oxyplot - OxyPlot is a cross-platform plotting library for .NET

IDE

• SharpDevelop - A free IDE for .NET programming languages
• MonoDevelop - MonoDevelop is a cross platform IDE mostly aimed at Mono/.NET developers
• Visual Studio Express - The free lightweight version of Visual Studio for .NET programming.

Image Processing

• ImageResizer - Add commands to image URLs to get altered versions in milliseconds. Resizing, editing etc of images in real-time.

Install tools

• Wix Toolset - The most powerful set of tools available to create your Windows installation experience

Internationalization

• i18n - Smart internationalization for ASP.NET MVC

IoC

• Castle Windsor - Castle Windsor is best of breed, mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET and Silverlight
• Unity - Lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection
• Autofac - An addictive .NET IoC container
• Ninject - The ninja of .net dependency injectors

Logging

• NLog - NLog - Advanced .NET and Silverlight Logging
• ELMAH - Official ELMAH site
• Elmah MVC - Elmah for MVC
• Log4Net - The Apache log4net library is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets
• Serilog - A no-nonsense logging library for the NoSQL era. Combines the best of traditional and structured diagnostic logging in an easy-to-use package.
• StackExchange.Exceptional - Error handler used for the Stack Exchange network

Misc

• AzureCrawler - Take HTML Snapshots for your Angular, Ember, Durandal or any JavaScript applications
• .NET Fiddle - Write, compile and run C# code in the browser. The C# equivalent of JSFiddle.

Office

• ClosedXML - ClosedXML makes it easier for developers to create Excel 2007/2010 files

ORM

• Entity Framework - Object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects
• BL Toolkit - Business Logic Toolkit for .NET
• Dapper
• Dapper Extensions - Small library that complements Dapper by adding basic CRUD operations (Get, Insert, Update, Delete) for your POCOs
• NHibernate - NHibernate Object Relational Mapper
• FluentMigrator - Fluent Migrations framework for .net
• ServiceStack.OrmLite - Light, simple and fast convention-based POCO ORM

Package Management

• NuGet - THE .NET Package Manager
• OpenWrap - OpenWrap Package Manager

Queue

• NServiceBus - The most popular service bus for .NET
• RabbitMQ.NET - Implementation of an AMQP client library for C#, and a binding exposing AMQP services via WCF
• NetMQ - NetMQ is 100% native C# port of ZeroMQ
• MassTransit - MassTransit is lean service bus implementation for building loosely coupled applications using the .NET Framework.

SDK and API Clients

• AWS SDK - The AWS SDK for .NET enables .NET developers to easily work with Amazon Web Services
• Azure SDK Tools - A set of PowerShell cmdlets for developers and administrators to develop, deploy and manage Microsoft Azure applications
• Octokit.NET - A GitHub API client library for .NET

Search

• Elasticsearch .NET - Elasticsearch.Net & NEST
• PlainElastic.Net - Plain .Net client for ElasticSearch
• SolrNet - Solr client for .Net

Serialization

• Protobuf.NET - Protocol buffers is the name of the binary serialization format used by Google for much of their data communications
• Json.NET - Popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
• ServiceStack.Text - JSON, JSV and CSV Text Serializers used in servicestack.net

Style Guide

• C# Style Guide - StackOverflow Q & A on style guides
• C# Coding Conventions - Official MSDN C# code conventions

Testing

• NUnit
• xUnit - xUnit.net is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework
• SpecFlow - Binding business requirements to .Net code
• AutoFixture - AutoFixture is an open source framework for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase of your unit tests
• Moq - The most popular and friendly mocking framework for .NET
• Machine.Specifications - Machine.Specifications (MSpec) is a context/specification framework that removes language noise and simplifies tests.
• Rhino Mocks - Dynamic Mocking Framework for .NET
• Fluent Assertions - A set of .NET extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style test

Visual Studio Plugins

• Web Essentials - Web Essentials extends Visual Studio with lots of new features that web developers have been missing for many years
• VsVIM - VIM in Visual Studio
• Nuget Package Manager - NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET
• SideWaffle - A collection of Item Templates for Visual Studio 2012/2013 that makes any web developer's life much easier
• Resharper - Developer Productivity Tool for Visual Studio (Commercial)

Web Frameworks

• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET is a free web framework for building great web sites and applications
• NancyFx - Lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono
• IISNode - Host NodeJS applications in IIS

Web Servers

• EmbedIO - Web server built on Mono and cross-platform

WebSocket

• SignalR - Library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications
• Fleck - Fleck is a WebSocket server implementation in C#. Branched from the Nugget project
• Websocket-Sharp - A C# implementation of the WebSocket protocol client and server
• XSockets - Provides a great set of tools for you to build real-time applications on the Microsoft.NET plattform and much more

Windows Services

• TopShelf - An easy service hosting framework for building Windows services using .NET

Other Awesome Lists

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