quozd/awesome-dotnet

Awesome .NET is a community-curated index of libraries, tools, and frameworks for the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. It is not a piece of running software. It is a single long README file that lists, under each topic heading, a set of named projects with one line of description and a link to where you can find them. This kind of project is known across the open-source world as an awesome list, and the format was inspired by similar collections for Ruby, PHP, Python, and frontend development. The list is maintained on GitHub by Vitali Fokin under the username quozd, and it accepts contributions from anyone through pull requests. The contribution guidelines spell out the quality bar a project has to meet to get added. Both open-source and commercial entries are welcome. The list is published under a Creative Commons Zero waiver, which means the index itself is in the public domain and you can copy or reuse it without permission. The README also links to a Gitter chat room for discussion. The table of contents is the main feature. It covers almost every concern that a working .NET developer might run into. Examples include algorithms and data structures, API frameworks, authentication and authorization, background processing, Blazor, build automation, caching, CLI tools, code analysis, compilers and transpilers, cryptography, database drivers and ORMs, deployment, desktop frameworks, distributed computing, documentation generators, e-commerce, functional programming, game development, GraphQL, GUI toolkits, HTTP clients, image processing, IoC containers, logging, machine learning, markdown processors, messaging, networking, office-document handling, OpenAI integration, and PDF generation, with many more sections beyond that. The intended use is as a starting map. If you are writing code in C# or F# and you need a library for a specific job, you scan the index for the matching heading, look at the few projects listed there, click through to read more, and pick the one that fits your situation. The README itself does not teach you how to use any of the libraries. It only points you at them. For an experienced .NET developer the list saves time over searching NuGet blindly. For a newcomer it is a way to see what the .NET community has actually built and which choices show up again and again.