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Newtonsoft.Json

James Newton-King

Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET

8.9B

Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

Microsoft

Default implementation of dependency injection for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.

7.6B

Microsoft.Extensions.Logging

Microsoft

Logging infrastructure default implementation for Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.

7.4B

System.Text.Json

Microsoft

Provides high-performance and low-allocating types that serialize objects to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) text and deserialize JSON text to objects, with UTF-8 support built-in. Also provides types to read and write JSON text encoded as UTF-8, and to create an in-memory document object model (DOM), that is read-only, for random access of the JSON elements within a structured view of the data. The System.Text.Json library is built-in as part of the shared framework in .NET Runtime. The package can be installed when you need to use it in other target frameworks.

6.2B

Microsoft.Bcl.AsyncInterfaces

Microsoft

Provides the IAsyncEnumerable<T> and IAsyncDisposable interfaces and helper types for .NET Standard 2.0. This package is not required starting with .NET Standard 2.1 and .NET Core 3.0.

4.5B

Azure.Core

Microsoft

This is the implementation of the Azure Client Pipeline

4.1B

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Benjamin Abt

@BenjaminAbt

12x Microsoft MVP for .NET, creator of StrongOf, Unio and other .NET libraries

20 packages

Thomas Pentenrieder

@ThomasP

Microsoft MVP, creator of Zeitplan.io, creator of WordPressPCL

7 packages

Erik Ejlskov Jensen

@erikej

Microsoft MVP for .NET, known for EFCore Power Tools and more

19 packages

Mark Seemann

@ploeh

Architecture Expert, Author of "Code That Fits in Your Head", Microsoft MVP, creator of AutoFixture and more

21 packages

MyCSharp

@MyCSharp

myCSharp.de community - HttpUserAgentParser and more

7 packages

tsjdev-apps

@tsjdev-apps

Microsoft MVP for .NET, .NET API wrappers for popular web services

9 packages

gfoidl

@gfoidl

Creator of gfoidl.Base64 and trx2junit

21 packages

Andrew Lock

@andrewlock

Microsoft MVP for .NET, creator of NetEscapades.AspNetCore.SecurityHeaders and more

35 packages

Jeremy Skinner

@jskinner

Microsoft MVP for .NET, creator of FluentValidation and more

11 packages

Martin Othamar

@martinothamar

Creator of high-performance libs like Mediator.SourceGenerator

4 packages

Kristian Hellang

@khellang

Creator of popular libraries like Scrutor and more

26 packages

Marc Gravell

@marc.gravell

Creator of StackExchange.Redis, protobuf-net and more

56 packages

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Creator of popular libraries like RestSharp and more

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