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BepInEx
Unity / XNA game patcher and plugin framework
Unity / XNA game patcher and plugin framework. BepInEx is a plugin / modding framework for Unity Mono, IL2CPP, and .NET framework games (XNA, FNA, MonoGame, etc.) Stable builds are released once a new iteration of BepInEx is considered feature-complete. They have the least bugs, but some newest features might not be available. Bleeding edge builds are available on BepisBuilds. Bleeding edge builds are always the latest builds of the source code. Thus they are the opposite to stable builds: they have the newest features and bugfixes available, but usually tend to be the most buggy. Therefore you should use bleeding edge builds only if you are asked to or if you want to preview the upcoming version of BepInEx. Some games require some additional changes in order to work around specific limitations of different Unity versions. -
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PowerShell
Command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET
Powershell is a cross-platform, task-based command-line shell and scripting language that helps rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS and Windows) and processes. It works well with existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data, REST APIs and object models. PowerShell was developed by Microsoft as a task management and configuration management framework. Powershell is designed to let you manage computers from the command line and improve the command-line and scripting environment. -
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StabilityMatrix
Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion
StabilityMatrix is a project that helps organize, evaluate, and compare generative AI models and their behavior across prompts, datasets, or configuration settings. It provides a framework to run experiments systematically—capturing inputs, model configurations, outputs, and metrics—so researchers and practitioners can reason about differences in quality, robustness, and failure modes. The repository often bundles tooling for automated prompt sweeping, scoring heuristics (such as diversity, coherence, or task-specific metrics), and visualization helpers to make comparisons interpretable. This approach is useful for model selection, prompt engineering, and benchmarking new checkpoints against baseline models under reproducible conditions. By turning ad-hoc tests into tracked experiments, StabilityMatrix reduces bias, surfaces subtle regressions, and accelerates iteration when tuning generative systems. -
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Selenium
Browser automation framework and ecosystem
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should) also be automated as well. If you want to create robust, browser-based regression automation suites and tests, scale and distribute scripts across many environments, then you want to use Selenium WebDriver, a collection of language specific bindings to drive a browser - the way it is meant to be driven. If you want to create quick bug reproduction scripts, create scripts to aid in automation-aided exploratory testing, then you want to use Selenium IDE; a Chrome and Firefox add-on that will do simple record-and-playback of interactions with the browser. If you want to scale by distributing and running tests on several machines and manage multiple environments from a central point. -
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mpv.net
mpv.net is a modern media player for Windows that works just like mpv
mpv.net is a modern desktop media player for Windows based on the popular mpv player. mpv.net is designed to be mpv compatible, almost all mpv features are available because they are all contained in libmpv, this means the official mpv manual applies to mpv.net. mpv focuses on the usage of the command line and the terminal, mpv.net retains the ability to be used from the command line and the terminal and adds a modern Windows GUI on top of it. Video output that is capable of many features loved by videophiles, such as video scaling with popular high-quality algorithms, color management, frame timing, interpolation, HDR, and more. Leverages the FFmpeg hwaccel APIs to support DXVA2 video decoding acceleration. mpv.net is based on libmpv which offers a straightforward C API that was designed from the ground up to make mpv usable as a library and facilitate easy integration into other applications. mpv is like VLC not based on DirectShow or Media Foundation. -
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dotnet sdk
Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects
Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI. There are no fees or licensing costs, including for commercial use. .NET is open-source and cross-platform, with free development tools for Windows, Linux, and macOS. .NET is supported by Microsoft. Microsoft ships official releases that are built and tested on Microsoft-maintained servers in Azure and supported just like any Microsoft product. .NET is open source and we are very thankful for the many contributions it receives from the community. To test your locally built SDK, run eng\dogfood.cmd after building. That script starts a new Powershell with the environment configured to redirect SDK resolution to your build. -
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.NET Runtime
Cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps
.NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build for web, mobile, desktop, games, and IoT. You can write .NET apps in C#, F#, or Visual Basic. C# is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. F# is a cross-platform, open-source, functional programming language for .NET. It also includes object-oriented and imperative programming. Visual Basic is an approachable language with a simple syntax for building type-safe, object-oriented apps. Whether you're working in C#, F#, or Visual Basic, your code will run natively on any compatible OS. Different .NET implementations handle the heavy lifting for you. -
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Obfuscar
Open source obfuscation tool for .NET assemblies
Obfuscar is an open-source .NET obfuscator released under MIT license. It provides basic obfuscation features that help secure secrets in a .NET assembly. An obfuscation tool designed for most .NET developers. Hide everything private, while keep everything public. You can achieve such simply via default settings. Hide class/method/property/event names that you don't want to expose. This is irreversible. String contents can be compressed so that end users won't easily learn them. However, this is reversible by certain tools. -
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Emgu CV
Emgu CV is a cross platform .Net wrapper for OpenCV
Emgu CV is a cross platform .Net wrapper to the OpenCV image processing library. Allowing OpenCV functions to be called from .NET compatible languages such as C#, VB, VC++, IronPython etc. The wrapper can be compiled in Mono and run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad and Android devices. -
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CefSharp
.NET bindings for the Chromium embedded framework
CefSharp is an easy way to embed a full-featured standards-compliant web browser into your C# or VB.NET app. CefSharp has browser controls for WinForms and WPF apps, and a headless (offscreen) version for automation projects too. CefSharp is based on Chromium Embedded Framework, the open source version of Google Chrome. CefSharp embraces modern web standards, and supports HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 audio/video elements. 3D content is supported via WebGL which uses OpenGL/DirectX for hardware accelerated rendering. CefSharp includes embedded modules for PDF, web page printing and the WebKit Inspector (developer tools). CefSharp has no external dependencies, and the full build of CefSharp only adds ~80 MB to your app. See the CefSharp.MinimalExample project for ready-to-compile minimal example apps built with CefSharp. Within the projects source there are more complicated example projects. -
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Grassroots DICOM
Cross-platform DICOM implementation
Grassroots DiCoM is a C++ library for DICOM medical files. It is accessible from Python, C#, Java and PHP. It supports RAW, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-LS, RLE and deflated transfer syntax. It comes with a super fast scanner implementation to quickly scan hundreds of DICOM files. It supports SCU network operations (C-ECHO, C-FIND, C-STORE, C-MOVE). PS 3.3 & 3.6 are distributed as XML files. It also provides PS 3.15 certificates and password based mecanism to anonymize and de-identify DICOM datasets. -
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taskt
Free and open-source robotic process automation (rpa)
taskt (formerly sharpRPA) is the first truly free, easy-to-use, and open-source process automation client built on the .NET Framework in C#. taskt allows you to build and design process automation without needing to write application code. taskt allows you to automate the boring stuff and create efficienies by giving you the power to craft a digital workforce that executes and performs rule-based automation. No API? No Problem! Included is a "what you see is what you get" bot designer with dozens of automation commands. An element recorder and screen recorder is also included that can record and replay scripted automation. taskt works by allowing a bot developer to design a bot configuration known as a script. The bot configuration is then intepreted by a script engine at run-time and executes against the bot developer's selected parameter inputs. Each command contains the definitions for the required inputs as well as the required logic at run-time. -
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
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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MSI Downloader
MSI installers for a wide range of software and utilities
MSI Downloader has been created for IT professionals who want a quick and easy method of downloading the latest MSI installers for various software. MSI installers are much easier to use for deployment using systems like Group Policy, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). Some publishers happily supply MSI installers for their software, however, some are very hard to find. So this new tool will not only be providing the easy to find MSI installers, but also the hard to find ones and in some cases, the impossible to find ones - ones where we will create the MSI installers for them! The aim to keep all the MSI Installers within our utility fully up to date, but if you find something that is not, please let us know and we will correct it. -
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Json.NET
A popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
Serialize and deserialize any .NET object with Json.NET's powerful JSON serializer. Create, parse, query and modify JSON using Json.NET's JObject, JArray and JValue objects. Query JSON with an XPath-like syntax. 50% faster than DataContractJsonSerializer, and 250% faster than JavaScriptSerializer. Json.NET makes the simple easy and the complex possible. If you need it, Json.NET supports converting between XML and JSON. Json.NET is open source software and is completely free for commercial use. Json.NET supports Windows, MacOS, Linux, Mono, and Xamarin. Over 1 billion downloads and counting, Json.NET is the number one library on NuGet. Json.NET documentation is the first place to go for help. It includes over 100 code samples. Json.NET is open source under the MIT license and is free for commercial use. -
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Paket
A dependency manager for .NET with support for NuGet packages and Git
A dependency manager for .NET with support for NuGet packages and Git repositories. NuGet does not separate out the concept of transitive dependencies. If you install a package into your project and that package has further dependencies then all transitive packages are included in the packages.config. There is no way to tell which packages are only transitive dependencies. Even more importantly: If two packages reference conflicting versions of a package, NuGet will silently take the latest version (read more). You have no control over this process. Paket on the other hand maintains this information on a consistent and stable basis within the paket.lock file in the solution root. This file, together with the paket.dependencies file enables you to determine exactly what's happening with your dependencies. -
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reko
Reko is a binary decompiler
Reko (Swedish: "decent, obliging") is a decompiler for machine code binaries. This project is freely available under the GNU General Public License. The project consists of front ends, core decompiler engine, and back ends to help it achieve its goals. A command line, a Windows GUI, and a ASP.NET front end exist at the time of writing. The decompiler engine receives inputs from the front ends in the form of either individual executable files or decompiler project files. Reko project files contain additional information about a binary file, helpful to the decompilation process or for formatting the output. The decompiler engine then proceeds to analyze the input binary. Reko has the ambition of supporting decompilation of various processor architectures and executable file formats with minimal user intervention. For a complete list, see the supported binaries page. -
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reacTIVision is a computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of markers attached on physical objects, and the creation of multi-touch surfaces. It was designed for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces.
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File system/directory monitoring utilities with loggin and task processing support (can execute files or make a WCF service call). Multiple configuration options. Source code libraries can be used to create a custom file system monitor.
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.NET port of the excellent Java Hibernate which provides Object/Relational mapping to persist objects in a relational database.
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.NET
This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub
This repository is the home of the .NET platform’s source, infrastructure, and ecosystem coordination. It serves as a “virtual monolithic repo” that aggregates the components (runtime, SDK, libraries, tools) needed to build the .NET SDK and platform. It is a central launching point for understanding, contributing to, or navigating .NET’s many open source subprojects and documentation. Contains policies, guidelines, documentation, and meta-project glue. Synchronization of subprojects into a unified view (Virtual Monolithic Repository). Issue triaging, contribution workflows, and governance linking across subrepos. Acts as an entrypoint/road map for .NET’s broad open source ecosystem. -
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.NET Multi-platform App UI
.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a cross-platform framework for creating mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. Using .NET MAUI, you can develop apps that can run on Android, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared codebase. .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms that expands capabilities beyond mobile Android and iOS into desktop apps for Windows and macOS. With .NET MAUI, you can build apps that perform great for any device that runs Windows, macOS, Android, & iOS from a single codebase. Coupled with Visual Studio productivity tools and emulators, .NET and Visual Studio significantly speed up the development process for building apps that target the widest possible set of devices. Use a single development stack that supports the best of breed solutions for all modern workloads with a unified SDK, base class libraries, and toolchain. -
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ABP Framework
Open source web application framework for ASP.NET core
ABP Framework is a complete infrastructure to create modern web applications by following the best practices and conventions of software development. Rich authentication & authorization options integrated to ASP.NET Core Identity & IdentityServer4. Provides an extensible & detailed permission system. Don't repeat yourself to implement all this common stuff again & again. Focus on your business code and let ABP automate them by conventions. Easily publish & consume distributed events using built-in Distributed Event Bus with RabbitMQ integration available. Create reusable UI themes and layouts or use one of the pre-built UI themes. Automatically filter on querying from the database to easily implement patterns like soft-delete and multi-tenancy. Instead of manually writing the repeating details of bootstrap components, use ABP's tag helpers to simplify them and take advantage of the IntelliSense. Quickly build UI forms based on a C# model using the dynamic form tag helper. -
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AvaloniaILSpy
Avalonia-based .NET Decompiler (port of ILSpy)
This is a cross-platform version of ILSpy built with Avalonia. Search for types/methods/properties (substring). Hyperlink-based type/method/property navigation. Extensible via MEF Extensibility (Check out TestPlugin folder). Note: This is not compatible with ILSpy Plugins. Grab artifacts from the latest master CI build. This includes Linux, Mac and Windows. -
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Clean Architecture Solution Template
Clean Architecture Solution Template for .NET 6
This is a solution template for creating a Single Page App (SPA) with Angular and ASP.NET Core following the principles of Clean Architecture. Create a new project based on this template by clicking the above Use this template button or by installing and running the associated NuGet package (see Getting Started for full details). The template is configured to use an in-memory database by default. This ensures that all users will be able to run the solution without needing to set up additional infrastructure (e.g. SQL Server). Verify that the DefaultConnection connection string within appsettings.json points to a valid SQL Server instance. When you run the application the database will be automatically created (if necessary) and the latest migrations will be applied. This will contain all entities, enums, exceptions, interfaces, types and logic specific to the domain layer.
