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Top 19 C# Msbuild Projects
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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MSBuildStructuredLog
A logger for MSBuild that records a structured representation of executed targets, tasks, property and item values.
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Buildalyzer
A utility to perform design-time builds of .NET projects without having to think too hard about it.
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dotnet-affected
.NET tool for determining which projects are affected by a set of changes. Useful for large projects or monorepos.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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MSBuildLocator
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.
Sure, legacy... Now we have a solution for MSBuild, which is MSBuildLocator. Although, it also has its limitations: it has separate builds for the .NET Framework and .NET Core. The .NET Framework version can search for and register MSBuild only for the .NET Framework while the .NET Core version is limited to do the same only for .NET Core. I guess this is because MSBuild is also split into MSBuild for .NET Framework and MSBuild for .NET Core.
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NsDepCop
NsDepCop is a static code analysis tool that enforces namespace and assembly dependency rules in C# projects.
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sdk-container-builds
Libraries and build tooling to create container images from .NET projects using MSBuild
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MvsSln
🧩 Customizable VisualStudio .sln parser with project support (.vcxproj, .csproj., …). Pluggable lightweight r/w handlers at runtime, and more …
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EmptyLicensesLicx
Easy continuous integration of apps using third-party controls that rely on licenses.licx files
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vsSolutionBuildEvent
🎛 Event-Catcher with variety of advanced Actions to service projects, libraries, build processes, runtime environment of the Visual Studio, MSBuild Tools, and …
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eagle
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).
Project mention: Eagle: Extensible Adaptable Generalized Logic Engine for the CLR | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-30 -
Verlite
Automatically version projects via semantic git tags with a focus on being lite, optimized for continuous delivery.
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You can find test results on GitHub Actions.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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).
C# Msbuild discussion
C# Msbuild related posts
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Microsoft makes mistakes too. Let's check MSBuild
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Announcing .NET 8 Preview 4 - .NET Blog
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Sharing Saturday #459
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Has anyone given up on SourceGenerators and now use MsBuild Hooks to run custom code generators?
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Did anyone figure out a way to compile .NET Core with WPF on Linux?
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Why does Microsoft still insist on using XML for configuration files like `.csproj`, etc.?
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[Copilot has] been a massive productivity improvement to our senior devs, and I got so used to it that it's an annoyance when Copilot doesn't respond.
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A note from our sponsor - Stream
getstream.io | 14 Jul 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source Msbuild projects in C#? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | MSBuild | 5,412 |
| 2 | MSBuildStructuredLog | 1,548 |
| 3 | Buildalyzer | 645 |
| 4 | MSBuildSdkExtras | 347 |
| 5 | DotnetRuntimeBootstrapper | 314 |
| 6 | GitHubActionsTestLogger | 312 |
| 7 | dotnet-affected | 274 |
| 8 | MSBuildLocator | 233 |
| 9 | NsDepCop | 214 |
| 10 | sdk-container-builds | 194 |
| 11 | MvsSln | 145 |
| 12 | Uno.SourceGeneration | 130 |
| 13 | zig-sdk | 91 |
| 14 | EmptyLicensesLicx | 84 |
| 15 | vsSolutionBuildEvent | 82 |
| 16 | eagle | 30 |
| 17 | Verlite | 23 |
| 18 | tdd | 7 |
| 19 | mgcb-msbuilder | 4 |
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