.NET Open Source Developer Projects

原文：https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/blob/master/dotnet-developer-projects.md

This community maintained list showcases .NET open source developer projects. It is intended to include projects that are useful for any aspect of the development process. For consumer projects, see the .NET
open source consumer projects list. PR a change into either list and it will be accepted (modulo duplicates).

Please sort projects alphabetically and provide a one-line description. GitHub/CodePlex (or other source) links are preferred, but feel free to also include marketing sites. Create new sections, as appropriate.

.NET Implementations

.NET Core - Core .NET Framework
C# Native - Compiles C# to native.
Cosmos - C# Open Source Managed Operating System, an operating system "construction kit".
Fling OS - C#
Operating System designed for people to learn low-level development from.
Mono - Cross-platform implementation of .NET Framework.
MOSA Project - Managed Operating System Alliance Project - C# Operating System.
SharpLang - Compiles C# & .NET to native machine code, using LLVM as
a backend.

Platforms

Castle Project - Umbrella project for ActiveRecord, DynamicProxy, MonoRail, Windsor
Catel - Application platform with IoC, logging, reflection and much more that serves as a base for applications
that must be ready for future growth.
Enterprise Web Library (EWL) - An extremely opinionated platform for web applications
that trades off performance, scalability, and development flexibility for an ease of maintenance you won't find anywhere else.Enterprise
Web Library site.
KonfDB - Configuration Management as a Service for cross-platform, multi-tenant enterprise/hobby
applications.

Languages

Boo - A .NET language similar to Python but with static typing, and many meta-programming capabilities.
ClojureCLR - A .NET implemention of the Clojure programming
language, built on the DLR.
Cobra - Clean, high-level syntax (Boo/Python-like). Static and dynamic binding. First class support
for unit tests and contracts. Compiled performance with scripting conveniences. Lambdas and closures. Extensions and mixins
Dynamic Language Runtime - A toolkit for building dynamic languages for .NET.
Eagle - A .NET implementation of the Tcl programming
language, built on the CLR.
Essence# - Essence# is a fully dynamic and highly polymorphic programming language which features
pervasive message passing, pervasive dynamic and strong typing, pervasive and deep reflection and pervasive object orientation.
F# - A mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language.
F* - An ML-like language with a type system for program verification.
IronPython - A .NET implementation of the Python programming
language, built on the DLR. IronPython Site.
IronRuby - A .NET implementation of the Ruby programming
language, built on the DLR. IronRuby Site.
IronScheme - A R6RS conforming Scheme-like implementation based on the Microsoft DLR.
Irony - a development kit for implementing languages on .NET platform
MoonSharp - A Lua interpreter and remote debugger, written entirely in C#, easily embeddable
in any application running on .NET 3.5+ and Mono.
Nemerle - A high-level statically-typed programming language which offers functional, object-oriented
and imperative features and has a simple C# like syntax and a powerful meta-programming system.
NiL.JS - A .NET implementation of the ECMAScript language and runtime.
Phalanger - full-featured PHP runtime & compiler for .NET/Mono frameworks. Phalanger is modern
open-source implementation of PHP, compatible with the vast array of existing PHP code.
Roslyn (.NET Compiler Platform) - Open-source C# and Visual Basic compilers with rich code analysis APIs.

Security / Identity Management

Thinktecture IdentityManager
Thinktecture IdentityServer
SKGL - Serial Key Generating Library

Web CMS

DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) - Web content management platform (CMS).
N2CMS - Open source, lightweight, code-first CMS able to seamlessly integrate into any MVC project.
Orchard - A community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.
Piranha CMS - Lightweight CMS library for new and existing ASP.NET MVC & WebPages applications.
Suave A lightweight web server and a set of combinators to manipulate route flow and task composition.
Umbraco - Web content management platform (CMS).
WebSharper - Web programming platform including a compiler from F# code to JavaScript.

Web Frameworks

Nancy - A lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .NET and Mono.
NemerleWeb - Web MVVM library for .Net. It uses reactive data model which allows creating rich
internet applications.

ADO.NET providers

Firebird .NET client - Firebird
Npgsql - PostgreSQL
System.Data.SQLite - SQLite

Messaging

AzureNetQ - An easy to use .NET API for Azure Service Bus.
EasyNetQ - An easy to use .NET API for RabbitMQ.
Lime - A lightweight messaging library.
RestBus - Easy Asynchronous Messaging and Queueing for .NET

Libraries

Albedo - A .NET library targeted at making Reflection programming more consistent, using a common set
of abstractions and utilities.
Algorithmia - Algorithms and Data structures
AngleSharp - Ultimate angle brackets parser library. It parses HTML5, MathML, SVG and CSS
to construct a DOM based on the official W3C specification.
ArcGIS.PCL - Call ArcGIS Server REST API resources. You can also convert between ArcGIS features
and GeoJSON.
Argument - Argument validation microframework that does one thing in the simplest way possible.
AshMind.Extensions - A set of very conservative extension methods most of which closely
follow naming and design patterns of .NET Base Class Library.
AsyncCollections - A set of lock-free thread-safe collections designed to be used asynchronously.
Bing.RestClient - Access the Bing REST APIs from a unified client.
BoxKite.Twitter - Twitter .NET Client Library for the 1.1 Twitter API, incorporating REST
API, User streaming and Search Streaming. Uses Reactive Extensions (Rx).
Brighter - A Command Dispatcher and Command Processor library with support for Work or Task Queues
over different MoM implementations such as RabbitMQ
Cimbalino Toolkit - A set of useful and powerful tools that will help you build your
Windows Platform applications.
Coding4Fun Toolkit
ColoredConsole - Add some color to your console.
ColorSharp - Library to handle color spaces and light spectrums.
ComparerExtensions - Build IComparer and IEqualityComparer objects using natural
language syntax.
Cricket - Actor library
DiffSharp - Automatic Differentiation Library
DotNetOpenAuth - Library that adds support for your site visitors to login with their OpenIDs by just
dropping an ASP.NET control onto your page.
DropboxRestAPI - DropBox .Net Client Library
DynamicData - Brings the power of Rx to collections
ExtraLINQ - Various extension methods for working with .NET collections.
FeatureToggle - Simple, reliable feature toggles in .NET.
FluentBootstrap
FluentConsole - Alternative approach to colored console (

FluentConsole.Red.Text().Green.Text()

).
FluentValidation - A small validation library for .NET that uses a fluent interface
and lambda expressions for building validation rules.
GongSolutions.Wpf.DragDrop - A drag'n'drop framework for WPF.
GeckoFX - Mozilla's Gecko layout engine wrapper in .NET.
HudlFfmpeg - A/V transcoding framework that helps build complex FFmpeg commands.
JSON.NET - Popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
Kentor.AuthServices - A SAML2 Service Provider for .NET.
LibGit2Sharp
Lucene.Net
MahApps.Metro - A toolkit for creating metro-style WPF applications.
Math.NET Numerics - Provides methods and algorithms for numerical computations in science,
engineering and every day use.
Mathos Core Libary - A library with algorithms for numerical calcultations in finance, statistics, pattern
recognition, and more.
Mathos Parser - A simple parser for mathematical expressions before and at runtime.
Mjolnir - Hystrix-inspired
fault tolerance with circuit breakers and thread pools.
MoreLINQ - LINQ to Objects is missing a few desirable features. This project will enhance LINQ to
Objects with extra methods, in a manner which keeps to the spirit of LINQ.
NAudio - An open source .NET audio and MIDI library.
NetTopologySuite - A .NET port of the JTS Topology Suite.
NHunspell - Spell Checker, Hyphenation an Theasaurus
NModbus4 - Implementation of the Modbus protocol
NodaTime - A better date and time API for .NET
NPOI - An Office file formats (xls, xlsx, docx) read/write library for .NET
OneDriveRestAPI - OneDrive .Net Client Library using the REST API.
OsmSharp - Mapping & Routing library.
PocketSharp
PortableRest - Portable library for building cross-platform REST API Clients for .NET and
Xamarin.
RestSharp - Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET
SharpMap - An easy-to-use mapping library for use in web and desktop applications
SharpSnmpLib - An easy-to-use SNMP library for use on all platforms (.NET/Mono/Xamarin)
Splat - A library to make things cross-platform that should be.
SSH.NET - A client-side library for SSH, SCP and SFTP.
SuperSocket - An extensible socket server engine which supports .NET and Mono
WebApiProxy - An automatic proxy provider for RESTful services built on ASP.NET Web API.
Includes JavaScript & C# client generation.
WebSocket4Net - A C# websocket client for .NET, Mono and Xamarin
WpfToolkit - Fork of the MS WPF Toolkit
XamlEssentials - Collection of helpers for Microsoft's XAML platforms.
Zlib.Portable - A Portable Class Library port of the Zlib library from http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com.

Data Mine/Data Extraction/Machine Learning/AI

AForge.NET - a C# framework designed for developers and researchers in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial
Intelligence - image processing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, robotics
Nepy - A collection of NLP parsers for .NET
SharpNLP - SharpNLP is a collection of natural language processing tools written in C#
Toxy - An data/text extraction framework for .NET, similar to Tika in Java.

Graphics & Server-side Image Processing

DynamicImage - WPF-based server-side image rendering system - lots of visual effects implemented
as high-performance shaders. Has URL api, several plugins available.
ImageProcessor - A .NET Library For On-The-Fly Processing Of Images (GDI+ based).
ImageResizer - Add commands to image URLs to get altered versions in milliseconds. Edit, filter, touch-up
images in real-time. (multiple backends - FreeImage, C++/CLI, GDI+, WIC). 45+ plugins available.
King.Azure.Imaging - Scalable image uploading and processing for Azure.
MonoGame - MonoGame is a cross-platform, open-source implementation of the XNA Game Framework.
.NET Image Processor - Extensible, chainable image processing library (GDI+ based).
OpenTK - OpenTK is a low-level, cross-platform binding to OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenCL and OpenAL, available
for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, Android and iOS.
SharpDX - SharpDX is a project delivering the full DirectX API for .NET on all Windows platforms.

Logging

Exceptionless - Provides real-time .NET error reporting for your ASP.NET, Web API, WebForms,
WPF, Console, and MVC apps. It organizes the gathered information into simple actionable data that will help your app become exceptionless!
ELMAH - ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is an application-wide error logging facility that
is completely pluggable. It can be dynamically added to a running ASP.NET web application, or even all ASP.NET web applications on a machine, without any need for re-compilation or re-deployment.
log4net - A tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets.
LogMaster4Net - It is a central log server which can organize your logs in different applications
in a same place but have same log behaviors (loggers, appenders, levels and rules) like in the indepedent applications before.

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Frameworks

Caliburn Micro - A small, yet powerful framework, designed for building applications
across all XAML platforms.
Catel.MVVM - Catel is an application development platform with the focus on MVVM.
MVVM Cross - A cross-platform mobile MVVM development framework.
MVVM Extensions - MVVM cross platform (.NET FW 4.5, WPF, Windows Runtime/Phone) extensions
for .NET with support for async commands, MVVM-friendly Object and Task with support for UI notification.
MVVM Light Toolkit - A cross-platform desktop and mobile MVVM development framework.
Okra App Framework - An MVVM framework for Windows Store applications including MVVM templates
for Visual Studio.
Radical - An infrastructure framework whose primary role is to help in the development of composite
WPF/Silverlight/WP/WinRT applications based on the Model View ViewModel pattern.
ReactiveUI - An MVVM framework that integrates with the Reactive Extensions for .NET to create
elegant, testable User Interfaces that run on any mobile or desktop platform.
Simple Mvvm Toolkit - Provides a simple framework and set of tools for getting up to speed quickly
with applications based on the MVVM design pattern.
WPF Application Framework (WAF) - A lightweight Framework that helps you to create well structured WPF Applications.
It supports you in applying a Layered Architecture and the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.

Tools

Cake (C# Make) - A build automation system with C#/Roslyn driven build scripts.
CppSharp - C/C++ bindings generation for .NET.
CInject - A tool to inject your C#/VB.NET code into existing .NET assemblies and executables
FAKE - Build automation system with capabilities which are similar to make and rake.
Fody - Extensible tool for weaving .NET assemblies.
Crawler-Lib Build Tools - A
PowerShell based toolbox for automating the software build process, autmated testing and integration.
FsEye - A visual object tree inspector for the F# Interactive.
FsharpLint - Lint tool for F#.
FsPickler - Serialization library that facilitates the distribution of .NET objects.
GitLink - Command-line tool to make .NET open source accessible without the need for a symbols
server
GitVersion - Use convention to derive a SemVer product version from a GitFlow based repository.
Glimpse - Providing real time diagnostics & insights to the fingertips of hundreds of thousands of
developers daily.
ILSpy - ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.
Mini Profiler - A simple but effective mini-profiler for .NET.
Obfuscar - MSIL obfuscation utility for .NET assemblies.
Outcomes.Net - Fluent wrapper that eliminates plumbing code around failure-prone functions.
Paket - Dependency manager for .NET and Mono projmects, which is designed to work well with NuGet
packages and also enables referencing files directly from GitHub repositories.
Protobuf-net - A .NET implementation of protobuf, allowing you to serialize your .NET objects
efficiently and easily.
scriptcs - scriptcs makes it easy to write and execute C# with a simple text editor.
Snoop WPF - Snoop - The WPF Spy Utility
Sql Bulk Copy Sync
Vagrant - Automated dependency resolution and dynamic assembly compilation framework.
Waf DotNetPad - The Waf DotNetPad is a simple and fast code editor that makes fun program with C# or
Visual Basic.
Weighted Selector - Easy to use (but high performance!) weighted selection implementation.
XDav - A .net server mudole for webdav standard.
ZeroToNine - A tool for maintaining .NET Assembly versions across multiple files.

Testing

AutoFixture - An open source framework for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase
of your unit tests. Its primary goal is to allow developers to focus on what is being tested rather than how to setup the test scenario, by making it easier to create object graphs containing test data.
canopy - A web testing framework.
FakeItEasy - The easy mocking library for .NET.
Fixie - A low-ceremony, convention-based testing framework with flexible customization.
FsCheck - A tool for testing .NET programs automatically.
moq - The most popular and friendly mocking framework for .NET
NSubstitute - A friendly substitute for .NET mocking frameworks.
NUnit - NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .NET languages.
tickspec - A lightweight Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework.
TestStack.BDDfy - BDDfy is the simplest BDD framework to use, customize and extend!
TestStack.FluentMvcTesting - Simple, terse, fluent unit testing for ASP.NET
MVC Controllers.
TestStack.Seleno - Seleno helps you write automated UI tests in the right way by implementing
Page Objects and Page Components and by reading from and writing to web pages using strongly typed view models.
TestStack.White - White is a framework for automating rich client applications based on Win32, WinForms,
WPF, Silverlight and SWT (Java) platforms.
xUnit - xUnit.net is a community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework.

Dependency Injection

Autofac - Autofac is an addictive Inversion of Control container for .NET 4.5, Silverlight 5, Windows
Store apps, and Windows Phone 8 apps.
Castle Windsor - A mature Inversion of Control container available for .NET and Silverlight
DI Feature Tests - Tests that track commmon DI features among multiple containers
dI.Hook - DI container that allows invocation using AOP
DryIoc - DryIoc is small, fast, capable IoC Container for .NET
fFastInjector - fFastInjector is a high-performing dependency injector, service locator, and/or
IOC (inversion of control) container.
Funq - A fast DI container you can understand.
Grace - Grace is a feature rich Dependency Injection container in a portable class library
Griffin - Inversion of control container with (almost) zero configuration
HaveBox - HaveBox is a very fast and lightweight IoC containter. The goal is to keep it
fast and light, and at the same time easy to use.
Hiro - An ultra-lightweight, inversion of control container compiler framework
IfInjector - High performance mobile micro-IoC container.
LightCore - A
lightweight dependency injection container that can be used as a service locator and despite its simplicity and ease boasts numerous features.
LightInject - A ultra lightweight IoC container
MicroSliver - MicroSliver is a micro, non-bloat, non-intimidating and speedy .NET (ASP.NET, Silverlight,
RIA Services, WPF, Forms and Metro!)
Mugen Injection - The MugeniInjection is a lightweight and fast managed IoC (Inversion of Control)
and DI (Dependency Injection) with support for constructor, property and method call injection
Ninject for Desktop - Dependency injector for .NET
Ninject for Portable Class Libraries, Universal apps and Xamarin
QuickInject - QuickInject is a Unity 3.5 based IoC container that aims to give the Unity container
a performance advantage in basic scenarios.
Simple Injector - Simple Injector is an easy-to-use Dependency Injection library for .NET 4+ that
supports Silverlight 4+, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 including Universal apps and Mono.
Spring.NET - Spring.NET is an open source application framework that makes building enterprise
.NET applications easier.

StructureMap - StructureMap is a Dependency Injection / Inversion of Control tool for .Net
that can be used to improve the architectural qualities of an object oriented system by reducing the mechanical costs of good design techniques.
StyleMVVM - Style MVVM is a toolkit designed for the Windows Store platform around the idea of being
light weight and fast.
TinyIoC - An easy to use, hassle free, Inversion of Control Container for small projects, libraries
and beginners alike.
Unity Container - The Unity Container (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container
with optional support for instance and type interception.

Data Access

Dapper - Dapper is a single file you can drop in to your project that will extend your
IDbConnection interface.
Eggado - Eggado takes generics, lambdas, expression trees, dynamic methods and DLR and uses them to
breathe new life into data access using good old ADO.NET. It's for folks who can live with a SQL dialect.
King.Mapper - High performance model mapping.
linq2db - Lightweight ORM and LINQ provider with support for various databases including MS SQL,
PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL
NHibernate - Object Relational Mapper
Simple Data - A light-weight, dynamic data access component for C# 4.0.
Sqlite-net - Simple, powerful, cross-platform SQLite client and ORM.
NMEA Parser - Library for handling NMEA message in Windows Desktop, Store, Phone and Xamarin
(Android + iOS), coming from files, Bluetooth, serial port or any stream.
Neyro.Data - Tiny, simple and fast ORM.
StackExchange.Redis

SQL LocalDB Wrapper - SQL LocalDB Wrapper is an assembly providing interop with the SQL
LocalDB native API from managed code using .NET APIs.
LINQ2DynamoDB - A type-safe data context for AWS DynamoDB with LINQ, in-memory caching and OData
support.

Games

Duality - An Open Source 2D Game Engine + Visual Editor written entirely in C#.
MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
OpenRA - An open-source implementation of the Command & Conquer: Red Alert engine using .NET/Mono and
OpenGL.
Paradox - Paradox is a versatile and engaging game engine.
WaveEngine - A powerful component based game engine for desktop and mobile platforms using C#.

UI and Control libraries

Callisto - UI Control Toolkit for WinRT apps
Dragablz - A tearable TabControl for WPF which also provides easy-to-use and implement docking
features.
Eto - Cross platform GUI Toolkit for desktop and mobile apps
Material Design in XAML Toolkit - WPF/XAML resources, styles & templates
for creating applications using Material Design
Mono XWT - A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop apps

Windows Services

King.Service - Task scheduling for Azure and Windows
TopShelf - An easy service hosting framework for building Windows services using .NET.

Scheduling

Hangfire - An easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring tasks inside ASP.NET
applications.
Quartz.Net - A full-featured, open source job scheduling system that can be used from smallest
apps to large scale enterprise systems.

Deployment

DropkicK - A fluent deployment library for Windows applications
RoundHouse - RoundhousE is a Database Migration Utility for .NET using sql files and versioning
based on source control

Service Bus

King.Service.ServiceBus - Task scheduling for Azure and Windows Servers: Service
Bus.
Warewolf Easy Service Bus - An open source easy to use service bus, built on numerous .Net
technologies including WF (Windows Workflow Foundation), SignalR and WPF.

Distributed Caching and Computing

CacheAdapter - a .Net library allows developers to use unified-implemented cahce provider
Dache - An open source distributed caching service, built on .NET 4.0 and using TCP sockets for communication.

Windows Workflow

Workflow Extractor - Document Windows Workflow logic into a Word document or Excel
sheet.

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

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

Thanks to @slodge for providing the initial list.