Top 7 C# Build Projects

MSBuild

5 4,727 9.8 C#

The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.

Project mention: How can I compile a C# program with a different version of glibc? | reddit.com/r/csharp | 2022-03-11

msbuild is the "make" system, but for .Net. Those .csproj files are just makefiles by another name. Also, msbuild is not Windows-only. The readme specifically states that it can run on Unix (and Unix-like) systems that support .Net Core.
FlubuCore

0 791 6.5 C#

A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code.
SonarQube

www.sonarqube.org
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Static code analysis for 29 languages.. Your projects are multi-language. So is SonarQube analysis. Find Bugs, Vulnerabilities, Security Hotspots, and Code Smells so you can release quality code every time. Get started analyzing your projects today for free.
Oryx

4 443 9.1 C#

Build your repo automatically. (by microsoft)

Project mention: Microsoft Oryx | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-04-18
Nake

0 204 5.9 C#

Magic script-based C# task runner for .NET Core
vsSolutionBuildEvent

1 61 5.4 C#

🎛 Event-Catcher with variety of advanced Actions to service projects, libraries, build processes, runtime environment of the Visual Studio, MSBuild Tools, and …

Project mention: High-speed multiplication of large numbers |+ Fast Fnv1a-128 implementations |+ Hash-based UUID (Guid) ... 「 LONGPOST 」 | reddit.com/r/x3F | 2021-08-01

Huid will soon be a part at least of the following projects, such as MvsSln, DllExport, vsSolutionBuildEvent, and maybe Conari.
Unity_BuildObjectRemover

0 6 3.8 C#

The Build Object Remover allow you to automatically remove a chosen object from a scene from a release build.
NAnt2

1 4 7.5 C#

NAnt2 is a free .NET build tool, updated and enhanced from original NAnt project https://github.com/nant/nant. Easy to use even by non-programmers to automate their daily tasks.

Project mention: NAnt2 (NAnt descendant) development status | reddit.com/r/dotnet | 2021-07-29

I've been working on NAnt2 - a fork of the awesome NAnt project. Since it might look both projects have stalled, it's not true for NAnt2 - ideas and things to do still pop up thus there are 101 issues currently on its board, besides bringing it to year 2021.
Scout APM

scoutapm.com
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Less time debugging, more time building. Scout APM allows you to find and fix performance issues with no hassle. Now with error monitoring and external services monitoring, Scout is a developer's best friend when it comes to application development.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2022-04-18.

C# Build related posts

Microsoft Oryx
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2022
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2 projects | reddit.com/r/codehunter | 13 Apr 2022
How can I compile a C# program with a different version of glibc?
1 project | reddit.com/r/csharp | 11 Mar 2022
How to run post-build actions in a python/linux webapp?
1 project | reddit.com/r/AZURE | 22 Jan 2022
How can I set TEMP environment variable for MSBuild in csproj?
1 project | reddit.com/r/dotnet | 10 Dec 2021
WordPress Latin1 and UTF-8, Part 2
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2021
Standard File/Project Structure?
4 projects | reddit.com/r/csharp | 20 May 2021

Index

What are some of the best open-source Build projects in C#? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	MSBuild	4,727
2	FlubuCore	791
3	Oryx	443
4	Nake	204
5	vsSolutionBuildEvent	61
6	Unity_BuildObjectRemover	6
7	NAnt2	4

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