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.
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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
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WebAPI Contrib - Collection of open source projects to help improve your work with ASP.NET Web API
- 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
- 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.
- Psake - .NET-based build automation tool written in PowerShell
- FAKE - F# Make, a cross platform build automation system
- CacheCow - An ASP.NET Web API HTTP caching implementation both on client and server
- 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
- 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
- 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
- HashLib - HashLib is a collection of nearly all hash algorithms you've ever seen, it supports almost everything and is very easy to use
- 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
- SlimDX - DirectX framework wrapper for .NET applications
- Sandcastle - Sandcastle Help File Builder similar to NDoc
- SharpDox - A c# documentation tool
- Paypal Merchant SDK - Official Paypal Merchant SDK for .NET
- SharpDevelop - A free IDE for .NET programming languages
- MonoDevelop - MonoDevelop is a cross platform IDE mostly aimed at Mono/.NET developers
- ImageResizer - Add commands to image URLs to get altered versions in milliseconds. Resizing, editing etc of images in real-time.
- i18n - Smart internationalization for ASP.NET MVC
- 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
- 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.
- AzureCrawler - Take HTML Snapshots for your Angular, Ember, Durandal or any JavaScript applications
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Elasticsearch .NET - Elasticsearch.Net & NEST
- PlainElastic.Net - Plain .Net client for ElasticSearch
- SolrNet - Solr client for .Net
- C# Style Guide - StackOverflow Q & A on style guides
- C# Coding Conventions - Official MSDN C# code conventions
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- EmbedIO - Web server built on Mono and cross-platform
- 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
- TopShelf - An easy service hosting framework for building Windows services using .NET
Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in the awesome-awesomeness list.