dotnet/dotnet-projects.md

.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

• Castle Project

• Cosmos

• Mono Project

• Languages

• IronScheme

• Nemerle

• Web CMS

• DNN (formerly DotNetNuke)

• Orchard

• Umbraco

• Suave A lightweight web server and a set of combinators to manipulate route flow and task composition.

• WebSharper Web programming platform including a compiler from F# code to JavaScript.

• Web Frameworks

• Nancy

• ADO.NET providers

• [Npgsql] (https://github.com/npgsql/npgsql) PostgreSQL

• [Firebird .NET client] (https://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/NETProvider/) Firebird

• Libraries

• [Algorithmia] (https://github.com/SolutionsDesign/Algorithmia) Algorithms and Data structures

• AngleSharp

• ArcGIS.PCL

• AzureNetQ

• Cimbalino

• Coding4Fun Toolkit

• ColoredConsole

• DotNetOpenAuth

• EasyNetQ

• FluentBootstrap

• FluentValidation

• JSON.NET

• LibGit2Sharp

• NodaTime

• PocketSharp

• RestSharp

• SharpDX

• Splat

• WpfToolkit

• Math.NET Numerics Provides methods and algorithms for numerical computations in science, engineering and every day use.

• DiffSharp Automatic Differentiation Library

• Cricket Actor library

• Mvvm

• Caliburn Micro

• Catel

• MVVM Cross

• MVVM Light Toolkit

• Radical

• ReactiveUI

• Simple Mvvm Toolkit

• Tools

• Fody

• FsharpLint Lint tool for F#.

• FsPickler Serialization library that facilitates the distribution of .NET objects.

• GitVersion

• LibGit2Sharp

• Glimpse

• ILSpy

• Mini Profiler

• Protobuf-net

• scriptcs

• Snoop Wpf

• Sql Bulk Copy Sync

• FsEye A visual object tree inspector for the F# Interactive.

• FAKE Build automation system with capabilities which are similar to make and rake.

• Paket Dependency manager for .NET and Mono projects, which is designed to work well with NuGet packages and also enables referencing files directly from GitHub repositories.

• Vagrant Automated dependency resolution and dynamic assembly compilation framework.

• Testing

• canopy A web testing framework.

• FakeItEasy

• FsCheck A tool for testing .NET programs automatically.

• moq

• NSubstitute

• NUnit

• tickspec A lightweight Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework.

• xUnit

• Dependency Injection

• Autofac

• Funq

• Ninject for Desktop

• Ninject for Portable Class Libraries, Universal apps and Xamarin

• TinyIoC

• Data Access

• Dapper

• NHibernate

• Simple Data

• Sqlite-net

• NMEA Parser

• StackExchange.Redis

• SQL LocalDB Wrapper

• Games

• MonoGame

• Paradox

• Control libraries

• Callisto

• Windows Services

• TopShelf

• Scheduling

• Quartz.Net

This list is just a starting point - also take a look at all the projects on CodePlex and on GitHub Trending C#.

Thanks to @slodge for providing the initial list.

@quozd hosts an Awesome .NET! list. Also worth checking out.