Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier

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Post by thomasvm » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 11:46 AM UTC

Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier
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Re: Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier

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Post by lnlyplnt » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 12:33 PM UTC

very handy!

Re: Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier

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Post by sarciszewski » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 12:52 PM UTC

Here's another one that will make your life easier: https://github.com/adamcaudill/libsodium-net

Now you have no excuses for rolling your own broken crypto.

Re: Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier

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Post by Cakez0r » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 1:28 PM UTC

To add to the author's list:

* I seem to install Json.net in every .NET project I create (json serializer - thanks James Newton-King!)

* NLog for logging. It's fantastic.

* Dapper is also excellent (Micro ORM) (and anything written by Marc Gravell is generally top-notch - see protobuf-net, miniprofiler, StackExchange.Redis)

* Automapper, to avoid writing boilerplate code to convert between similarly shaped types (E.G. DTOs to DB models).

* RestSharp makes talking to RESTful apis easier.

* Microsoft's Unity is a great IOC framework, although most people seem to use NInject.

Re: Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier

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Post by chton » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 1:40 PM UTC

In addition to the great ones already listed on the link and in the comments here, I'd like to list 2 of my favorites:

* Simple.Data: https://github.com/markrendle/Simple.Data , the smallest and simplest ORM you'll ever use.

* Hyperletter: https://github.com/Jiddler/Hyperletter , a very easy way to do inter-process communication. Great for writing distributed software over http, but can be just as useful locally.

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Post by Griever » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 1:51 PM UTC

Cakez0r wrote: post #4

To add to the author's list: * I seem to install Json.net in every .NET project I create (json serializer - thanks James Newton-King!) * NLog for logging. It's fantastic. * Dapper is also excellent (Micro ORM) (and anything written by Marc Gravell is generally top-notch - see protobuf-net, miniprofiler, StackExchange.Redis) * Automapper, to avoid writing boilerplate code to convert between similarly shaped types (E.G…

Excellent list. Another addition I would make is another contribution from Stack Exchange, this time from Kevin Montrose. It's a high-performance JSON serializer/deserializer called Jil. https://github.com/kevin-montrose/Jil

I've been using it on most of my newer projects this year and I have to say I much prefer it over the (still excellent) Json.net.

Re: Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier

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Post by mariusmg » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:08 PM UTC

Cakez0r wrote: post #4

To add to the author's list: * I seem to install Json.net in every .NET project I create (json serializer - thanks James Newton-King!) * NLog for logging. It's fantastic. * Dapper is also excellent (Micro ORM) (and anything written by Marc Gravell is generally top-notch - see protobuf-net, miniprofiler, StackExchange.Redis) * Automapper, to avoid writing boilerplate code to convert between similarly shaped types (E.G…

Never understood the point of Automapper when you can write explicit/implicit user defined typed conversions in C#.

Re: Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier

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Post by _camaya » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:09 PM UTC

You guys should check these ones:

* Hangfire(http://hangfire.io/): for background jobs.

* Polly(https://github.com/michael-wolfenden/Polly): For exception handling policies.

Edit: formatting.

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Post by Someone1234 » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:11 PM UTC

Cakez0r wrote: post #4

To add to the author's list: * I seem to install Json.net in every .NET project I create (json serializer - thanks James Newton-King!) * NLog for logging. It's fantastic. * Dapper is also excellent (Micro ORM) (and anything written by Marc Gravell is generally top-notch - see protobuf-net, miniprofiler, StackExchange.Redis) * Automapper, to avoid writing boilerplate code to convert between similarly shaped types (E.G…

How does Automapper compare to Entity Framework?

We use Elmah instead of Nlog, which is also fine. Looks like NLog is a bit more flexible than Elmah is. But Elmah is KISS which is nice.

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Post by _camaya » Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 2:14 PM UTC

mariusmg wrote: post #7

Cakez0r wrote: post #4

To add to the author's list: * I seem to install Json.net in every .NET project I create (json serializer - thanks James Newton-King!) * NLog for logging. It's fantastic. * Dapper is also excellent (Micro ORM) (and anything written by Marc Gravell is generally top-notch - see protobuf-net, miniprofiler, StackExchange.Redis) * Automapper, to avoid writing boilerplate code to convert between similarly shaped types (E.G…

Never understood the point of Automapper when you can write explicit/implicit user defined typed conversions in C#.

could you elaborate a bit more on that?