.NET Libraries
A collection of awesome .NET Core / ASP.NET frameworks, libraries, tools, resources and software.
For those resource with ⭐️ it's just my personal preference.
General
ASP.NET Core Documentation - The official ASP.NET Core documentation site.
ASP.NET Documentation - The official ASP.NET documentation site.
Frameworks, Libraries and Tools
Testing Frameworks
XUnit - ⭐️ xUnit.net is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework.
NUnit - NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .NET languages.
MSTest - MSTest is a Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework.
API Client
AutoRest - OpenAPI (f.k.a Swagger) Specification code generator. Supports C#, Go, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Ruby and PHP.
RestSharp - ⭐️ Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET
RestEase - Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library for .NET Standard 1.1 and .NET Framework 4.5 and higher, which is simple and customisable. Inspired by Refit
Flurl - Fluent URL builder and testable HTTP client for .NET
API Documentation
Swashbuckle.AspNetCore - ⭐️ Swagger tools for documenting API's built on ASP.NET Core
NSwag - The Swagger/OpenAPI toolchain for .NET, Web API and TypeScript.
Authentication and Authorization
Auth0 - Hosted, enterprise-grade platform for modern identity.
ASP.NET Core Identity - ASP.NET Core Identity is the membership system for building ASP.NET Core web applications, including membership, login, and user data.
IdentityServer - OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 Framework for ASP.NET Core
IdentityServer4.Templates - dotnet cli templates for IdentityServer4
IdentityServer4.EntityFramework - EntityFramework persistence layer for IdentityServer4
IdentityServer4.Contrib.MongoDB - MongoDB persistence layer for IdentityServer4
TwentyTwenty.IdentityServer4.EntityFrameworkCore - Entity Framework Core persistence layer
IdentityModel - .NET standard helper library for claims-based identity, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
OpenIddict - Easy-to-use OpenID Connect server for ASP.NET Core
CMS
Dnn.Platform - DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) is the leading open source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem.
Orchard .NET - Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.
Orchard Core - Orchard Core is an open-source modular and extensible application framework built with ASP.NET Core, and a content management system (CMS) built on top of that application framework.
Umbraco CMS - Umbraco is a fully-featured, open source Content Management System loved by thousands for its flexibility and great editing experience.
nopCommerce - Free open-source ecommerce shopping cart (ASP.NET Core)
Database
EventStore - The open-source, functional database with Complex Event Processing in JavaScript.
LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file
RavenDB - An ACID NoSQL Document Database
Apache Ignite - Mirror of Apache Ignite, a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
Database Drivers
MySQL Connector - Connector/Net is a fully-managed ADO.NET driver for MySQL
Npgsql - .NET data provider for PostgreSQL
MongoDB - Official MongoDB C# driver
StackExchange Redis - General purpose Redis client from StackExchange
RethinkDb.Driver - A RethinkDB database driver in C# striving for 100% ReQL API compatibility and completeness.
E-Commerce and Payments
E-Commerce CMS
nopCommerce - Free open-source ecommerce shopping cart (ASP.NET Core)
SimplCommerce - Super simple ecommerce system built on .NET Core.
Payment Gateway
FTP Client
FluentFTP - FTP and FTPS client, with extensive FTP commands, SSL/TLS connections, hashing/checksums and more.
SSH.NET - SSH.NET is a Secure Shell (SSH) library for .NET, optimized for parallelism
Image processing
ImageProcessor - A fluent wrapper around System.Drawing for the processing of image files.
ImageSharp - A cross-platform library for the processing of image files; written in C#
Magick.NET - The .NET library for ImageMagick
QRCoder - A pure C# Open Source QR Code implementation.
Logging
common-logging - Portable logging abstraction for .NET http://net-commons.github.io/common-logging.
log4net - ⭐️ log4net is a port of the excellent Apache log4j™ framework to the Microsoft® .NET runtime.
NLog - Advanced .NET, Silverlight and Xamarin Logging.
Serilog - ⭐️ Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
Serilog.Sinks.File - ⭐️ Write Serilog events to files in text and JSON formats, optionally rolling on time or size
Serilog.Sinks.RollingFile - Writes Serilog events to a set of text files, one per day
Mail
MailKit - ⭐️ Cross-platform .NET library for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.
NETCore.MailKit - .NET Core MailKit extensions
MimeKit - A .NET MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, DKIM, TNEF and Unix mbox spools. http://www.mimekit.net
FluentEmail - .NET Core email sending
Mapping
AutoMapper - ⭐️ Convention-based object-object mapper in .NET.
Middleware
AspNetCoreRateLimit - ASP.NET Core rate limiting middleware.
Misc
N/A
ORM
Entity Framework Core - ⭐️ Entity Framework Core is a lightweight and extensible version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology
PostgreSQL - Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL - Entity Framework Core provider for PostgreSQL
MySQL - Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql - Entity Framework Core provider for MySql built on top of mysql-net/MySqlConnector
MySQL - MySql.Data.EntityFrameworkCore - MySql.Data.EntityFrameworkCore for Entity Framework
Dapper - ⭐️ Simple object mapper for .NET.
PetaPoco - Official PetaPoco, A tiny ORM-ish thing for your POCO's
NPoco - Simple microORM that maps the results of a query onto a POCO object. Project based on Schotime's branch of PetaPoco
NHibernate Core - NHibernate Object Relational Mapper
Utilities
Files
CsvHelper - ⭐️ Library to help reading and writing CSV files
NPOI - ⭐️ A .NET library for reading and writing Microsoft Office binary and OOXML file formats.
EPPlus - Create advanced Excel spreadsheets using .NET
DinkToPdf - C# .NET Core wrapper for wkhtmltopdf library that uses Webkit engine to convert HTML pages to PDF.
PDFsharp - A .NET library for processing PDF
Compression
SharpZipLib - SharpZipLib is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform.
lz4net - Ultra fast compression algorithm for all .NET platforms.
sharpcompress - Fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats.
Date
NodaTime - A better date and time API for .NET http://nodatime.org
Fake Generator
Bogus - A simple and sane fake data generator for C#, F#, and VB.NET. Based on and ported from the famed faker.js.
Formatter
Humanizer - ⭐️ Humanizer meets all your .NET needs for manipulating and displaying strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities
Geography
GeoCoordinate - GeoCoordinate is a portable class library (in v1.1.x) or netstandard v1.1 (from v2.x.x) compatible implementation of System.Device.Location.GeoCoordinate.
Validation
FluentValidation - A popular .NET validation for building strongly-typed validation rules.
SDK
AWS SDK - The official AWS SDK for .NET. For more information on the AWS SDK for .NET, see our web site:
AWSSDK.Lambda - AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you, making it easy to build applications that respond quickly to new information.
AWSSDK.S3 - Amazon S3 provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage.
AWSSDK.SimpleEmail - Amazon SES is an outbound-only email-sending service that provides an easy, cost-effective way for you to send email
AWSSDK.SimpleNotificationService - Amazon SNS is a fast, flexible, fully managed push messaging service. Amazon SNS makes it simple and cost-effective to push notifications to Apple, Google, Fire OS, and Windows devices, as well as Android devices in China with Baidu Cloud Push. You can also use SNS to push notifications to internet connected smart devices, as well as other distributed services.
AWSSDK.ElasticTranscoder - Amazon Elastic Transcoder is media transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable, easy to use and a cost effective way for developers and businesses to convert (or 'transcode') media files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs.
AWSSDK.TranscribeService - Amazon Transcribe Public Preview Release
Docker.DotNet - .NET (C#) Client Library for Docker API.
Google Cloud DotNet - Google Cloud Client Libraries for .NET
Octokit - A GitHub API client library for .NET
Nexmo Client - Nexmo REST API client for .NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC written in C#. API support for SMS, Voice, Text-to-Speech, Numbers, Verify (2FA) and more.
Pubnub Client - PubNub is a Massively Scalable Web Push Service for Web and Mobile Games. This is a cloud-based service for broadcasting messages to thousands of web and mobile clients simultaneously
SendGrid - The Official SendGrid Led, Community Driven C#, .NetStandard, .NetCore API Library
Scheduler
FluentScheduler - ⭐️ Automated job scheduler with fluent interface.
Hangfire - An easy way to perform background job processing in your .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required
Quartz - Quartz Enterprise Scheduler .NET
Stateless - A simple library for creating state machines in C# code
Template Engine
DotLiquid - .NET Port of Tobias Lütke's Liquid template language.
RazorLight - Template engine based on Microsoft's Razor parsing engine for .NET Core
Handlebars.Net - A .NET Handlebars engine
Fluid - Fluid is an open-source .NET template engine that is as close as possible to the Liquid template language.
Web Socket
SignalR - ⭐️ Real-time web functionality for web apps, including server-side push.
SuperSocket - SuperSocket is a light weight, cross platform and extensible socket server application framework
Fleck - Fleck is a WebSocket server implementation in C#.
PubNub - ⭐️ Pubnub Service is a global Data Stream Network (DSN) and realtime infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company based in San Francisco, California.
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