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MSBuild
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) build platform for .NET and VS
The Microsoft Build Engine is a platform for building applications. This engine, which is also known as MSBuild, provides an XML schema for a project file that controls how the build platform processes and builds software. Visual Studio uses MSBuild, but MSBuild doesn't depend on Visual Studio. By invoking msbuild.exe on your project or solution file, you can orchestrate and build products in environments where Visual Studio isn't installed. Visual Studio uses MSBuild to load and build managed projects. The project files in Visual Studio (.csproj, .vbproj, .vcxproj, and others) contain MSBuild XML code that executes when you build a project by using the IDE. Visual Studio projects import all the necessary settings and build processes to do typical development work, but you can extend or modify them from within Visual Studio or by using an XML editor. Starting with Visual Studio 2022, when you build in Visual Studio, the 64-bit version of MSBuild is used. -
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Report Manager
Reporting tool, libraries and designer
Report Manager is both a print scheme designer (report) and a high level printing (reporting) engine. Also a TCP Report Server and a Web Report Server (PDF on the fly), supports Windows and Linux. Connectivity to almost all databases is provided. -
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CruiseControl.NET
An automated continuous integration server for the .NET platform
CruiseControl.NET is an automated continuous integration server for the .NET platform. It is a C# port of CruiseControl for Java. -
Photo and Video Editing APIs and SDKsUnlock Picsart's full editing suite by embedding our Editor SDK directly into your platform. Offer your users the power of a full design suite without leaving your site.
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Windows UI Library
Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications
WinUI is a user interface layer that contains modern controls and styles for building Windows apps. As the native UI layer in Windows it embodies Fluent Design, giving each Windows app the polished feel that customers expect. WinUI 2 is a library of controls that provides official native Microsoft UI controls and features for Windows UWP apps. WinUI 2 can be used in any Windows 10 UWP XAML app, or in a Xamarin.Forms app running on Windows 10 using native view embedding. WinUI 3 is the next generation of the WinUI framework. It dramatically expands WinUI into a full UX framework, making WinUI available for all types of Windows apps, from Win32 to UWP, for use as the UI layer. You can build new Windows apps using WinUI 3, which ships as a part of the Windows App SDK. The latest available stable release is the Windows App SDK 0.8 (previously called Project Reunion). With this release, you can ship production Desktop apps to the Microsoft Store. -
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SMC - The State Machine Compiler
Translates state machine into a target programming language.
SMC takes a state machine stored in a .sm file and generates a State pattern in 14 programming languages. Includes: default transitions, transition args, transition guards, push/pop transitions and Entry/Exit actions. See User Manual for more info. -
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LuaEdit is an IDE/Text Editor/Debugger for the Lua language. Its interface looks like MS Visual Studio .Net� and includes syntax highlighting, code completion, advance breakpoint management, efficient search engines, etc. Client under GPL and server (core debugger) under LGPL.
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pngcrush and other tools for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) and MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) files.
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Windows Presentation Foundation
Framework for building Windows desktop applications
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a UI framework for building Windows desktop applications. WPF supports a broad set of application development features, including an application model, resources, controls, graphics, layout, data binding and documents. WPF uses the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) to provide a declarative model for application programming. WPF applications are based on a vector graphics architecture. This enables applications to look great on high DPI monitors, as they can be infinitely scaled. WPF also includes a flexible hosting model, which makes it straightforward to host a video in a button, for example. The visual designer provided in Visual Studio makes it easy to build WPF application, with drag-in-drop and/or direct editing of XAML markup. WinForms is another UI framework for building Windows desktop applications that is supported on .NET (6.0.x/5.0.x/3.1.x). WPF and WinForms applications only run on Windows. -
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Cocona
Micro-framework for .NET console application
Micro-framework for .NET console application. Cocona makes it easy and fast to build console applications on .NET. Cocona has a mechanism called Parameter set that defines common parameters for multiple commands. For example, if every command receives a user name, host name, etc., it would be annoying to define them in a method for each command. If a class (or record class) has a parameterized constructor, it is treated as part of the definition of a command method. Cocona has filter mechanism like ASP.NET Core's action filter. Filters allow custom processing before or after you run a command. If a constructor has parameters, Cocona injects an instance obtained from IServiceProvider into the parameter. Cocona provides support for shell command-line completion (also known as tab completion). -
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Xamarin.Forms
Build native apps for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS
An app platform for building Android and iOS apps with .NET and C#. .NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications. Xamarin extends the .NET developer platform with tools and libraries specifically for building apps for Android, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS, and Windows. Learn about all Xamarin has to offer with our tutorials, videos courses, and documentation. Get started in 5 minutes with pre-packaged libraries and developer productivity tools! Businesses worldwide, spanning all industries, use Xamarin and .NET to build performant native mobile apps. See mobile apps that other developers have created using Xamarin, .NET, and Visual Studio. Xamarin apps are native apps! Whether you're designing a uniform UI across platforms or building a native user interface, your apps will behave the way users expect. -
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Brighter
A framework for building messaging apps with .NET and C#
This project is a Command Processor & Dispatcher implementation with support for task queues that can be used as a lightweight library. It can be used for implementing Ports and Adapters and CQRS (PDF) architectural styles in .NET. It can also be used in microservices architectures for decoupled communication between the services. Brighter supports Task Queues. As such it can be used to improve performance by introducing concurrency using a queue, and/or as an integration strategy between Microservices using messaging via a lightweight broker. Brighter provides support for CQRS architecture. It provides a simple library for routing commands and events to handlers. Brighter allows you to offload work from your web process to a worker process via a task queue. This allows in or out-of-process handlers. Brighter can act as a communications library for microservices, allowing commands or events to be passed between services. -
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Progress Telerik UI for UWP
Telerik UI for Universal Windows Platform
This repo contains the source code for Telerik UI for Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which includes 20+ UI controls for developers building UWP applications. This is an open-source version of Telerik UI for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) by Progress. The project is community-supported on Stack Overflow. Commercial support is available at telerik.com/uwp where you'll find a supported commercial trial and pricing options. Please visit telerik.com for UI tools for ASP.NET, WPF, WinForms, or JavaScript. Common and device-family-specific APIs are bundled in Progress® Telerik® UI for UWP. Easily implement various functionalities in your UWP projects and create a single app package running on every device in the Windows 10 device family. Save development time with a wide range of out-of-the-box controls for various application scenarios. Manage data with the Grid or ListView components and create beautiful visualizations with the Chart, Gauges and BulletGraph controls. -
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Uno Platform
Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps
The first and only UI Platform for single-codebase applications for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux. The only open source-platform for creating true single-source, multi-platform applications. Reuse 99% of the business logic and UI layer across native mobile, web and desktop. Maintain pixel-perfect control over where pixels go while having a choice of developing a platform-specific or custom look and feel of your application. Familiarity and richness of C# and XAML combined with productivity boosts of hot reload, hot restart, edit and continue and more. Use familiar editors like Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code or Rider. Free and paid support is available by both community and our team. Chats, tickets or even screen sharing! Seeing is believing. Learn by doing. See code samples our engineers put out for fun, learning and reuse. Explore the possibilities Uno Platform opens. -
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BitBurner
BitBurner AVR Programmer, a full and complete AVRdude GUI for Windows.
BitBurner AVR Programmer is a graphical front end for the command line program AVRdude. It is used to transfer programs and data to the Atmel AVR family of microcontrollers. BitBurner is an attempt at a single AVRdude GUI programming solution for AVR developers and experimenters by providing comprehensive device support over a broad range of programming hardware. BitBurner supports all devices, memory spaces and programming hardware protocols provided by the latest version of AVRdude, including support for XMEGA devices. BitBurner hosts a full-function hex editor capable of direct transfers to and from all memory spaces of all devices. BitBurner contains a complete fuse and lock calculator with an extensive database describing all AVRdude's supported devices and more. BitBurner has innovative automation functions intended to simplify and accelerate the build process. By monitoring project output files BitBurner can trigger programming actions without direct interaction. -
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FlubuCore
A cross platform build and deployment automation system
"FlubuCore - Fluent Builder Core" is a cross-platform build and deployment automation system. You can define your build and deployment scripts in C# using an intuitive fluent interface. This gives you code completion, IntelliSense, debugging, FlubuCore custom analyzers, and native access to the whole .NET ecosystem inside of your scripts. FlubuCore offers a .net (core) console application that uses power of roslyn to compile and execute scripts. Intuitive and easy to learn. C#, fluent interface, and IntelliSense make even the most complex script creation a breeze. Large number of often used built-in tasks like e.g. versioning, running tests, creating deployment packages, publishing NuGet packages, docker tasks, git tasts, sql tasks, npm tasks, executing PowerShell, managing IIS scripts and many more. -
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WixEdit
Project moved to Github: https://github.com/WixEdit/WixEdit
WixEdit is an editor for XML source code of the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset. WixEdit lets you create MSI and MSM setup packages with the WiX Toolset. It provides a visual representation of the dialogs and an easy way to edit the WiX source files. (Project moved to Github: https://github.com/WixEdit/WixEdit) -
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Wrye Bash has moved to Github! Downloads: https://github.com/wrye-bash/wrye-bash/releases Code: https://github.com/wrye-bash/wrye-bash
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Cake
Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system
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. Cake is built on top of the Roslyn compiler which enables you to write your build scripts in pure C# in either a standard console project, using Cake Frosting, or as Cake script using Cake .NET Tool. Cake runs on a modern .NET platform (.NET Core 3.1 or .NET 5 and newer) and is available on Windows, Linux, and macOS. See Runners for a list of available runners. Cake can run as simple console applications with full IDE integration including IntelliSense or refactoring. There are extensions available to provide advanced features for the most popular IDEs and editors. See Editors for a detailed feature list. Regardless if you're building on your own machine, or building on a CI system such as Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, TeamCity or Jenkins. -
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Electron.NET
Build cross platform desktop apps with ASP.NET Core
Build cross-platform desktop apps with .NET 5 and ASP.NET NET Core (Razor Pages, MVC), Blazor. Electron.NET is a wrapper around a "normal" Electron application with an embedded ASP.NET Core application. Via our Electron.NET IPC bridge we can invoke Electron APIs from .NET. The CLI extensions host our toolset to build and start Electron.NET applications. There are lots of different approaches how to get an X-plat desktop app running. We thought it would be nice for .NET devs to use the ASP.NET Core environment and just embed it inside a pretty robust X-plat environment called Electron. Porting Electron to .NET is not a goal of this project, at least we don't have any clue how to do it. We just combine ASP.NET Core & Electron. The current Electron.NET CLI builds Windows/macOS/Linux binaries. Our API uses .NET 5, so our minimum base OS is the same as .NET 5. -
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Polly
A .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library for policies
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. From version 6.0.1, Polly targets .NET Standard 1.1 and 2.0+. Today's cloud application, mobile, data-streaming, and IoT technologies all depend vitally on reliable connectivity. But underlying systems can fail, and networks are notoriously fickle, outages, latency, transient blips, spikes in load, all challenge 100% reliability. Polly helps you navigate the unreliable network. By providing resilience strategies in fluent-to-express policies such as Retry, WaitAndRetry, and CircuitBreaker, Polly can help you reduce fragility, and keep your systems and customers connected. Example usages are fault-tolerance for any distributed systems and inter-process calls, such as WCF, RESTful calls between microservices, calls to cloud services, Internet of Things connectivity, etc. -
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CIL disassembler written in C# by Mono Project. This fork is coming with some bug fixes. Uses Mono.Cecil, get from https://www.mono-project.com/docs/tools+libraries/libraries/Mono.Cecil/ if you don't have it already.
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wx.NET is a C# wrapper for wxWidgets (www.wxwidgets.org), providing a portable GUI toolkit for .NET programs. Supported on Windows, Linux GTK, and Mac OS X using MS.NET or Mono. Visit wxnet.sf.net or click "Project Home Page" below to learn more.
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.NET Docs
This repository contains .NET Documentation
This repository contains the conceptual documentation for .NET. The .NET documentation site is built from multiple repositories. Issues and tasks for all but the API reference repository are tracked here. We have a large community using these resources. We make our best effort to respond to issues in a timely fashion. .NET is a free, open-source development platform for building many types of applications. Share functionality between different applications and application types using class libraries. With .NET, your project code and files look the same, regardless of the type of application you build. With each application you have access to the same language, API, and runtime capabilities. .NET allows you to use platform-specific functionality, such as operating system APIs. Some examples are Windows Forms and WPF on Windows and the native bindings to each mobile platform from Xamarin. -
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AWS .NET deployment tool
The tooling that simplifies deployment of .NET applications
AWS Deploy Tool is an interactive tooling for the .NET CLI and the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio that helps deploy .NET applications with minimum AWS knowledge, and with the fewest clicks or commands. It works by analyzing .NET projects and guiding developers to the right AWS service. It then selects the right deployment service, builds and packages your application, and creates the deployment infrastructure. It allows for a quick and easy Proof of concept (POC), smooth graduation to CI/CD, and a gradual ramp-up of AWS knowledge. Get recommendations about the type of computing best suited for your application based on the application type. The tool will generate a Dockerfile if needed, otherwise, an existing Dockerfile will be used. The tool builds the deployment artifacts, generates a deployment CDK project, provisions the infrastructure and deploys your application to the chosen AWS compute.
