Top 19 C# Msbuild Projects

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1. MSBuild

   1 22 5,518 9.9 C#

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

   

   Project mention: 9 Things That Silently Kill Your .NET Build Time (and How to Fix Each One) | dev.to | 2026-04-06

   MSBuild's ResolveAssemblyReference (RAR) task maps every assembly reference in your project to an actual .dll path on disk. The critical detail: RAR runs unconditionally on every build, including incremental builds. As dotnet/msbuild Issue #2015 explains, the build system cannot know whether you've installed a new targeting pack since the last build, so it re-resolves every time.

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3. MSBuildStructuredLog

   2 3 1,629 9.2 C#

   A logger for MSBuild that records a structured representation of executed targets, tasks, property and item values.

   

   Project mention: MSBuildStructuredLog: A Logger for MSBuild | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-10

4. Buildalyzer

   3 4 681 5.6 C#

   A utility to perform design-time builds of .NET projects without having to think too hard about it.

   

5. MSBuildSdkExtras

   4 1 351 4.0 C#

   Extra properties for MSBuild SDK projects

   

6. dotnet-affected

   5 1 342 3.2 C#

   .NET tool for determining which projects are affected by a set of changes. Useful for large projects or monorepos.

   

7. GitHubActionsTestLogger

   6 2 339 8.1 C#

   Seamless GitHub Actions integration for .NET test runners

   

8. DotnetRuntimeBootstrapper

   7 7 327 6.6 C#

   Bootstrapped framework-dependent deployment for .NET applications

   

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10. NsDepCop

    8 0 288 4.5 C#

    NsDepCop is a static code analysis tool that enforces namespace and assembly dependency rules in C# projects.

    

11. MSBuildLocator

    9 1 259 6.3 C#

    An API to locate MSBuild assemblies from an installed Visual Studio location. Use this to ensure that calling the MSBuild API will use the same toolset that a build from Visual Studio or msbuild.exe would.

    

12. sdk-container-builds

    10 7 197 3.6 C#

    Libraries and build tooling to create container images from .NET projects using MSBuild

    

13. MvsSln

    11 1 149 7.0 C#

    🧩 Customizable VisualStudio .sln parser with project support (.vcxproj, .csproj., …). Pluggable lightweight r/w handlers at runtime, and more …

    

14. Uno.SourceGeneration

    12 1 134 3.8 C#

    A Roslyn based C# source generation framework

    

15. zig-sdk

    13 1 110 8.2 C#

    An MSBuild SDK for building Zig, C, and C++ projects using the Zig compiler.

    

16. vsSolutionBuildEvent

    14 1 85 7.1 C#

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

    

17. EmptyLicensesLicx

    15 0 85 1.4 C#

    Easy continuous integration of apps using third-party controls that rely on licenses.licx files

    

18. eagle

    16 4 31 9.1 C#

    Eagle (Extensible Adaptable Generalized Logic Engine) is a scripting language that belongs to the Tcl family of languages. It is interpreted, dynamically typed, and cross-platform. It was designed to act as a "glue language" and integrate easily into existing systems written for the Common Language Runtime (CLR). (by mistachkin)

    

19. Verlite

    17 5 27 3.9 C#

    Automatically version projects via semantic git tags with a focus on being lite, optimized for continuous delivery.

    

20. mgcb-msbuilder

    18 1 5 4.8 C#

    Replace .mgcb files with MSBuild properties in your MonoGame project

    

21. msbuild-graph-mcp

    19 1 0 6.3 C#

    MCP server for pre-build MSBuild project graph analysis — dependency graphs, TFM compatibility, shared imports, configuration diffs

    

    Project mention: I Built an MCP Server That Understands Your MSBuild Project Graph — Before You Build | dev.to | 2026-04-04

    I built MSBuild Graph MCP Server to fill this gap. It evaluates MSBuild project files directly — no build required — and exposes the results through 10 MCP tools that any AI assistant can call.

22. SaaSHub

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    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

    

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• MSBuildStructuredLog: A Logger for MSBuild

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2026

• Microsoft makes mistakes too. Let's check MSBuild

  1 project | dev.to | 17 Feb 2025

• Announcing .NET 8 Preview 4 - .NET Blog

  1 project | /r/dotnet | 17 May 2023

• Sharing Saturday #459

  5 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 24 Mar 2023

• Has anyone given up on SourceGenerators and now use MsBuild Hooks to run custom code generators?

  3 projects | /r/csharp | 26 Dec 2022

• Did anyone figure out a way to compile .NET Core with WPF on Linux?

  3 projects | /r/dotnet | 16 Dec 2022

• Why does Microsoft still insist on using XML for configuration files like `.csproj`, etc.?

  1 project | /r/csharp | 27 Nov 2022
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