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Surprised no one has mentioned Nancy: https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy I can't imagine building APIs without it now.
I find NancyFX really interesting, but I can't really see a reason to stray away from Web API2 besides Mono support. Any specific reasons you prefer Nancy?
Hangfire looks great. I'm currently running all my jobs through Azure Scheduler. Would anyone know what the pros & cons are between these two job schedulers? Are there certain requirements or architectures that favor one or the other?
I use Hangfire and then simply have Azure Scheduler ping my site regularly.
I've recently discovered Linq2Db. Works great for CRUD in conjunction with Dapper. https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db It also comes with handy T4 templates to generate models.
* albacore for cross platform builds with ruby https://github.com/Albacore/albacore/ C++.Net, VB, C#, F#
* suave.io http://suave.io F#
* logary for structured logging and metrics and health-checks http://logary.github.io/ C# and F#
* Chiron for F# JSON parsing
* logibit.hawk for F# API Hawk verification https://github.com/logibit/logibit.hawk/
* Http.fs instead of RestSharp for F#
* FsSql for ADO.Net interaction
* FluentValidation: excellent validation library, keeps validation rules grouped together and easy to keep track of - https://github.com/JeremySkinner/FluentValidation
* AutoFixture: great for the "Arrange" phase of unit tests. Populates object graphs with test data, highly customizable. There's a bit of a learning curve. Pairs nicely with xUnit but can be used with any TDD library - https://github.com/AutoFixture/AutoFixture
* Shouldly: a different approach to unit test assertions using "Should" that I find more readable. Also had friendlier error messages when assertions failed - https://github.com/shouldly/shouldly
Shameless plug of my own library:
* Regextra: aims to solve some common regex related scenarios. Features a Passphrase Regex Builder to generate a pattern for passphrase criteria, and also supports named templates and a few utility methods - https://github.com/amageed/Regextra
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Dapper is a really awesome library when you want to write complex queries (full of table hints, output clauses, merges and other advanced stuff), but don't want to write enormous amount of code for adding parameters and reading result sets.
Personally, I think it's great even for crud...It's an order of magnitude faster than things like EF/LINQ2SQL
TopShelf looks interesting, I have written quite a few Windows services over the years and there have always been lots of gaps in the MS offering.
I used to use NLog for logging until I've discovered Serilog ( http://serilog.net/ ) - simple .NET logging with fully-structured events.
Serilog to me is a much more modern logging solution. Allows us to pipe logs to table storage/sqlserver/loggly/logentries/docdb/azure event hub ... its the backbone of our app - really just awesome