# .NET Projects

There are many .NET open source projects. You can always use a search engine to find projects, and that's a good approach. This list is an intended to provide a showcase for projects that want it. It is itendeded to be community maintained. PR a change in and it will be accepted (modulo duplicates). Projects should be sorted alphabetically and GitHub links are preferred.

* Platforms
 * [.NET Core](https://github.com/dotnet/core)
 * [Castle Project](https://github.com/castleproject)
 * [Mono Project](https://github.com/mono/)
 
* Languages
 * [IronScheme](http://ironscheme.codeplex.com)

* Web CMS
 * [DotNetNuke](https://dotnetnuke.codeplex.com/)
 * [Orchard](http://www.orchardproject.net/)
 * [Umbraco](http://umbraco.com/)

* Web Frameworks
* [Nancy](http://nancyfx.org)

* Libraries
 * [AngleSharp](https://github.com/FlorianRappl/AngleSharp)
 * [AzureNetQ](https://github.com/Roysvork/AzureNetQ)
 * [Cimbalino](http://cimbalino.org/)
 * [DotNetOpenAuth](https://github.com/DotNetOpenAuth)
 * [EasyNetQ](https://github.com/mikehadlow/EasyNetQ)
 * [FluentValidation](https://github.com/JeremySkinner/FluentValidation)
 * [JSON.NET](http://json.net/)
 * [NodaTime](http://nodatime.org/)
 * [RestSharp](http://restsharp.org/)
 * [SharpDX](https://github.com/sharpdx/SharpDX)
 * [Splat](https://github.com/paulcbetts/splat)
 * [WpfToolkit](https://github.com/dotnetprojects/wpftoolkit)

* Mvvm
 * [Caliburn Micro](http://caliburnmicro.com/)
 * [Catel](http://catelproject.com/)
 * [MVVM Cross](https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross)
 * [MVVM Light Toolkit](http://www.mvvmlight.net)
 * [Radical](https://github.com/RadicalFx/radical)
 * [ReactiveUI](https://github.com/reactiveui/ReactiveUI)
 * [Simple Mvvm Toolkit](http://simplemvvmtoolkit.codeplex.com/)

* Tools
 * [Fody](https://github.com/Fody/Fody)
 * [GitVersion](https://github.com/ParticularLabs/GitVersion)
 * [Glimpse](http://getglimpse.com)
 * [ILSpy](http://ilspy.net/)
 * [Mini Profiler](http://miniprofiler.com/)
 * [Protobuf-net](https://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/)
 * [scriptcs](http://scriptcs.net/)
 * [Snoop Wpf](https://github.com/cplotts/snoopwpf)

* Testing
 * [moq](https://github.com/Moq/moq4)
 * [NSubstitute](http://nsubstitute.github.io/)
 * [NUnit](https://github.com/nunit/nunit)
 * [xUnit](https://github.com/xunit/xunit)

* Dependency Injection
 * [Autofac](http://autofac.org/)
 * [Funq](https://funq.codeplex.com/)
 * [Ninject for Desktop](http://www.ninject.org/)
 * [Ninject for Portable Class Libraries, Universal apps and Xamarin](https://github.com/onovotny/ninject)
 * [TinyIoC](https://github.com/grumpydev/TinyIoC)

* Data Access
 * [Dapper](https://github.com/StackExchange/dapper-dot-net)
 * [NHibernate](https://github.com/nhibernate)
 * [Simple Data](https://github.com/markrendle/Simple.Data)
 * [Sqlite-net](https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net)
 * [NMEA Parser](https://github.com/dotMorten/NmeaParser)

* Games
 * [MonoGame](http://monogame.net)
 * [Paradox](https://github.com/SiliconStudio/paradox)

* Control libraries
 * [Callisto](https://github.com/timheuer/callisto)
 * [OpenRA](https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA)
 
This list is just a starting point - also take a look at all the projects on [CodePlex](http://www.codeplex.com/) and on [GitHub Trending C#](https://github.com/trending?l=csharp).

Thanks to @slodge for providing the initial list.

@quozd hosts an [Awesome .NET!](https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet) list. Also worth checking out.