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Link	Rating	Description
Breeze		Breeze is a library that helps you manage data in rich client applications. If you store data in a database, query and save those data as complex object graphs, and share these graphs across multiple screens of your JavaScript client, Breeze is for you.
Cloudflare.NET		.NET SDK to interact with the Cloudflare REST API, and R2 Object Storage.
FastEndpoints		A light-weight REST API development framework for ASP.NET 8 and newer.
RateLimitHeaders		Reads the IETF RateLimit / RateLimit-Policy headers and automatically throttles HttpClient (and Polly v8 pipelines) before you get 429s.
Telegram.Bot		Client for Telegram Bot API.
WTelegramClient		Telegram Client API (MTProto) library written 100% in C# and .NET.

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Abblix Oidc.Server		Flexible OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 server-side implementation for modern ASP.NET projects.
AspNetSaml		Popular SSO/SAML library for ASP.NET.

Link	Rating	Description
Apache Spark for .NET		.NET bindings for Apache Spark for large-scale data processing.
Deedle		Easy to use .NET library for data and time series manipulation and scientific programming.
ML.NET		ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET.

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Argx		A modern command-line argument parsing library for .NET.
CliFx		Declarative framework for building command line interfaces with dependency injection and validation support.
Cocona		Micro-framework for .NET console application. Cocona makes it easy to build console applications with command line parsing.
Colorful.Console		Style your .NET console output with ease using RGB colors and gradients.
CommandLineParser		The best C# command line parser that brings standardized *nix getopt style to .NET.
Crayon		Extremely simple console coloring for .NET applications.
Gui.cs		Cross-platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET that makes it easy to build rich console applications.
Sharprompt		Interactive command-line prompts for .NET Core inspired by Inquirer.js.
Spectre.Console		A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.
System.CommandLine		System.CommandLine is a powerful command line parser for building modern CLI applications.

Link	Rating	Description
FastLZMA2Net		Fast LZMA2 Wrapper for .NET. Windows only.
K4os.Compression.LZ4		LZ4/LH4HC compression for .NET Standard 1.6/2.0 (formerly known as lz4net).
lzo.net		Implementation of the lzo decoder in plain C#/.NET.
SharpCompress		Fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats.
Snappier		Pure C# port of Google's Snappy compression algorithm. It is designed with speed as the primary goal, rather than compression ratio, and is ideal for compressing network traffic.
Snappy		Uses P/Invoke to C++ for great performance. However, it only works on Windows, and is a bit heap allocation heavy in some cases. It also hasn't been updated since 2014 (as of 10/2020). This project may still be the best choice if your project is on the legacy .NET Framework on Windows, where Snappier is much less performant.
ZstdSharp		Port of zstd compression library to C#.

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Cake		Cake (C# Make) is a free and open source cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.
Sharpliner		Use C# instead of YAML to define your Azure DevOps pipelines.

Link	Rating	Description
Apache Avro		Apache Avro is a data serialization system with .NET implementation.
ClosedXML		ClosedXML makes it easier for developers to create Excel 2007+ files.
CsvHelper		Library to help reading and writing CSV files.
EPPlus		EPPlus-Excel spreadsheets for .NET.
ExcelDataReader		Lightweight and fast library for reading Microsoft Excel files.
FileHelpers		The FileHelpers library for importing/exporting data from fixed length or delimited records in files databases or streams.
FlatBuffers		Memory efficient serialization library with .NET support.
Json.NET		Popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET.
MemoryPack		Blazing fast, zero-cost binary serialization.
MessagePack		Extremely Fast MessagePack Serializer for C# with built-in LZ4 compression.
NPOI		.NET library for reading and writing Microsoft Office binary and OOXML file formats.
Parquet.Net		Fully managed Apache Parquet implementation.
Protobuf		Google's data interchange format, an official .NET library.
Protobuf-net		Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET.

Link	Rating	Description
Bogus		A simple fake data generator for C# F# and VB.NET for testing and seeding databases.
faker-csharp		Faker for C#.
Faker.Net		Generate massive amounts of fake data in .NET (abandoned).
GenFu		GenFu is a library you can use to generate realistic test data. It is composed of several property fillers that can populate commonly named properties through reflection using an internal database of values or randomly created data. You can override any of the fillers, give GenFu hints on how to fill them.

Link	Rating	Description
Dapper		Dapper is a simple object mapper for .NET and owns the title of King of Micro ORM in terms of speed.
Entity Framework Core		EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries change tracking updates and schema migrations.
Marten		.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL.
Npgsql		The .NET data provider for PostgreSQL.
pldotnet		Pl/dotnet adds full support for C# and F# to PostgreSQL.
StackExchange.Redis		General purpose, the most popular Redis client.

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Akka.NET		Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local and distributed actors.
EventStore		The stream database optimised for event sourcing.
MassTransit		Distributed application framework for .NET supporting message-based architectures.
NEventStore		A persistence library used to abstract different storage implementations when using event sourcing.
Orleans		Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building distributed applications with .NET.
Proto.Actor		Cross-platform actor framework for .NET and Go.
Rebus		Simple and lean service bus implementation for .NET.

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CryEngine		The most powerful game development platform for you and your team to create world-class entertainment experiences.
Defold		Engine with experimental C# support.
Evergine		Another decent game engine.
Falco Engine		Free cross-platform 3D game engine with C# scripting, Bullet physics and OpenAL audio.
Flat Red Ball		Cross-platform 2D game engine focused on ultimate productivity. Built in .NET.
Flax Engine		Free cross-platform 3D game engine with C# scripting, Bullet physics and OpenAL audio.
FNA		Reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh libraries.
Godot		Free, open‑source game engine. Develop your 2D & 3D games, cross-platform projects, or even XR ideas!.
Hazel Engine		Simple-yet-powerful 3D game engine made by Studio Cherno and volunteers, available for use now with big plans for the future.
MonoGame		One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
Moonworks		A free cross-platform game development framework.
Murder Engine		Pixel art ECS game engine.
NeoAxis		A versatile game engine for creating video games and real-time apps.
Osu! Framework		A game framework written with osu! (A free-to-win rhythm game) in mind.
Prowl Engine		An Open Source C# 3D Game Engine under MIT license, inspired by Unity and featuring a complete editor.
Rebel Fork RBFX		Lightweight Game Engine/Framework in C++17 with WYSIWYG Editor. Experimental C# bindings.
S&box		Spiritual successor to Garry's Mod and a love letter to Source 2 ❤.
ShapeEngine		Custom made engine based on the great Raylib Framework. Main focus is being performant and only using draw functions instead of textures.
SharpGDX		C# Port of libGDX.
StereoKit		Easy-to-use open source XR library for building AR and VR applications with C# and OpenXR!.
Stride		Free and open-source cross-platform C# game engine. It is fit for both 2D and 3D games, as well as any other interactive content running on desktop and VR.
Unity		The most popular game engine in the world.

Link	Rating	Description
JetBrains Rider		The world's most loved .NET and game dev IDE. Now free for non-commercial use.
LinqPad		The .NET Programmer’s Playground.
OmniSharp		Makes C# development available in vim, neovim, sublime, emacs, brackets.
SharpIDE		A modern, cross platform IDE for .NET, built with .NET & Godot.
Visual Studio		The Greatest. The Most Powerful.
Visual Studio Code		Free and built on open source. Integrated Git, debugging and extensions. Install C# Dev Kit.

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Castle.Core		About Castle Core, including Castle DynamicProxy, Logging Services and DictionaryAdapter.

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Silverfly		A pratt parser framework.

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Exceptionless		Exceptionless .NET Client for collecting errors events and logs.
Log4net		Apache log4net is a versatile widely-used logging library for .NET.
Microsoft.Extensions.Logging		A lightweight and extensible logging API that is a part of ASP.NET Core and can be used in any .NET application.
NLog		Advanced and Structured Logging for Various .NET Platforms.
Serilog		Flexible, structured events - log file convenience.
ZLogger		Zero allocation text/structured logger for .NET with StringInterpolation and Source Generator.

Link	Rating	Description
AudioPlugSharp		Easily create VST (VST3) audio plugins in C# .NET.
Cscore		About An advanced audio library, written in C#. Provides tons of features. From playing/recording audio to decoding/encoding audio streams/files to processing audio data in realtime (e.g. applying custom effects during playback, create visualizations,...). The possibilities are nearly unlimited.
NAudio		Audio and MIDI library for .NET.

Link	Rating	Description
EFCore.Kusto		An EF Core database provider for Azure Data Explorer (ADX) aka Kusto.

Link	Rating	Description
AutoMapper		A convention-based object-object mapper in .NET.
Aviyal		Window manager for windows written purely in C# thats simple, lightweight and portable.
NodaTime		Noda Time is an alternative date and time API for .NET. It helps you to think about your data more clearly, and express operations on that data more precisely.
Octokit		.NET SDK in C# for GitHub's standard GitHub.com product.
Polly		Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry Circuit Breaker Timeout Bulkhead Isolation and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner.
RestSharp		Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET.
Retroc64		Programming the Commodore 64 with .NET.

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Fast ULID library, replacement for GUID - ByteAether.Ulid		Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifiers (ULIDs), designed to be globally unique, sortable, human-readable, and AoT compatible.

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Boo		A statically typed CLI language, inspired by Python.
IronPython		Open-source implementation of the Python programming language which is tightly integrated with .NET. IronPython can use .NET and Python libraries, and other .NET languages can use Python code just as easily.
IronScheme		IronScheme aims to be a R6RS conforming Scheme-like implementation for all .NET implementations and platforms.
Lua-CSharp		High performance Lua interpreter implemented in C# for .NET and Unity.
Oxygene		An Object Pascal-based CLI language.
pythonnet		Python for .NET is a package that gives Python programmers nearly seamless integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and provides a powerful application scripting tool for .NET developers.

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.NET Framework		The original .NET implementation for Windows desktop applications.
.NET MAUI Runtime		Runtime components for .NET Multi-platform App UI.
.NET Runtime		.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud mobile desktop and IoT apps.
CoreCLR		The runtime for .NET and includes the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler called RyuJIT and the GC.
IL2CPP		Unity's IL2CPP scripting backend converts IL code to C++ for better performance.
Mono		Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.
Mono Runtime		The Mono runtime is a .NET runtime optimized for mobile and gaming scenarios.
NativeAOT		Ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation support for .NET applications.
Unity Runtime		Customized .NET runtime used by Unity game engine.
Xamarin Runtime		Runtime for Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS applications.

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Facet		Source generator that eliminates DTO boilerplate by auto-generating DTOs, mappings, and EF Core projections at compile time.
NotNot.AppSettings		Automatically create strongly typed C# settings objects from AppSettings.json.

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Humanizer		Humanizer meets all your .NET needs for manipulating and displaying strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities.

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BenchmarkDotNet		De facto .NET benchmarking tool.

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Avalonia		Avalonia is a cross-platform XAML-based UI framework providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of Operating Systems.
Blazor		Blazor lets you build interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript.
Eto.Forms		Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET.
Fabulous		Declarative UI framework for cross-platform mobile & desktop apps using F# and MVU pattern.
MAUI		.NET Multi-platform App UI for building native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML.
Prism		Prism is a framework for building loosely coupled maintainable and testable XAML applications in WPF Xamarin Forms and Uno Platform.
ReactiveUI		An advanced composable functional reactive model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms.
Uno Platform		Build Mobile Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
WinForms		Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
WPF		WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.

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MSTest		The official Microsoft Testing Framework. Integrates with VS, VS Code, CLI, pipelines and more.
XUnit		Free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for .NET.