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Top 23 C# Window Projects

  • PowerToys

    Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

    • Project mention: Unlock Web Dev Superpowers with PowerToys | dev.to | 2024-03-23

    Windows PowerToys GitHub Repo

  • v2rayN

    A GUI client for Windows, support Xray core and v2fly core and others

    • Project mention: v2ray no games | /r/dumbclub | 2023-05-03

    maybe you need to use tun mode/ vpn mode in your client if you are using nekoray try it by enabling vpn mode, and for v2rayn use latest version which is this download and extract it. and in properties enable run as administrator.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • PowerShell

    PowerShell for every system!

    • Project mention: PowerBI: déployer une passerelle sur AWS pour $0.12/j | dev.to | 2024-03-14

    msiexec.exe /package https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.2.6/PowerShell-7.2.6-win-x64.msi /quiet ADD_EXPLORER_CONTEXT_MENU_OPENPOWERSHELL=1 ADD_FILE_CONTEXT_MENU_RUNPOWERSHELL=1 ENABLE_PSREMOTING=1 REGISTER_MANIFEST=1 USE_MU=1 ENABLE_MU=1 ADD_PATH=1

  • Files

    Building the best file manager for Windows

    • Project mention: Files | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-18

  • Avalonia

    Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

    • Project mention: Industrial Controller? Windows or Linux? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07

    You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.

    [0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

  • DevToys

    A Swiss Army knife for developers.

    • Project mention: Set Up MacOS for Development Productivity | dev.to | 2023-08-27

  • PEASS-ng

    PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)

    • Project mention: Great enumeration scripts? | /r/oscp | 2023-06-02

    Once on a system, something like Linpeas or Winpeas would be useful: https://github.com/carlospolop/PEASS-ng

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • N_m3u8DL-CLI

    [.NET] m3u8 downloader 开源的命令行m3u8/HLS/dash下载器，支持普通AES-128-CBC解密，多线程，自定义请求头等. 支持简体中文,繁体中文和英文. English Supported.

  • optimizer

    The finest Windows Optimizer

    • Project mention: Windows de-fucker for people like Steven | /r/Destiny | 2023-09-14

  • Chocolatey

    Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

    • Project mention: Let’s build AI-tools with the help of AI and Typescript! | dev.to | 2024-04-23

    Chocolatey Windows software management solution, we use this for installing Python and Deno

  • Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller

    Remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly.

    • Project mention: Best Alternatives to Brave that randomize fingerprints right out of the bat? | /r/browsers | 2023-12-11

    Is it sluggish in the current state ? Have you tried to do a 'real' complete uninstall using BC-Uninstaller, deleting all the leftovers in the registry that might be corrupted or sth ?

  • MahApps.Metro

    A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.

    • Project mention: Windows 8 style app (metro style app) | /r/windows | 2023-05-08

    You can make a WPF application with VS2022 CE and then install this NuGet package: MahApps

  • WingetUI

    WingetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers

    • Project mention: [Rant] Your Software Isn't the Only One Our Company Uses FFS | /r/sysadmin | 2023-12-07

    Ya I use Chocolatey sometimes but now I use WingetUI which can pull from multiple sources including Chocolatey. Although If anyone decides to try it the constant update notifications can be quite annoying but they can be disabled if you wish.

  • EarTrumpet

    EarTrumpet - Volume Control for Windows

  • mRemoteNG

    mRemoteNG is the next generation of mRemote, open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager.

    • Project mention: Microsoft adding RAR, 7z, Gz and more to the native ZIP extractor, and finally having it use more than 1 CPU core. | /r/sysadmin | 2023-05-23

  • Uno Platform

    Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.

    • Project mention: AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03

    And Uno Platform (https://platform.uno/) is akin to React Native in terms of native controls usage.

  • Notepads

    A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design.

  • Dependencies

    A rewrite of the old legacy software "depends.exe" in C# for Windows devs to troubleshoot dll load dependencies issues.

    • Project mention: I can't get Fluidsynth working | /r/cpp_questions | 2023-10-05

    I did some digging with Dependencies and found that issue is with libstdc++-6.dll

  • EverythingToolbar

    Everything integration for the Windows taskbar.

    • Project mention: Fluent Search | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-22

    Everything + EverythingToolbar

    https://github.com/srwi/EverythingToolbar

  • Windows-Auto-Night-Mode

    Automatically switches between the dark and light theme of Windows 10 and Windows 11

    • Project mention: Auto Dark Mode + Neovim: Windows (maybe Linux?) | /r/neovim | 2023-07-18

    This solution uses Auto Dark Mode, which seems like the most popular application for theme changing functionality. However, any theme changer with scripting capability could be used.

  • Flow.Launcher

    :mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins

    • Project mention: Quick file search and app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-28

  • xdm

    Powerfull download accelerator and video downloader

    • Project mention: How to Download Videos from Adultswim.com? | /r/Piracy | 2023-07-11

  • UWP Community Toolkit

    The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.

    • Project mention: Hello everyone, I made a Windows 10/11 Multitool app with Winforms. I'm just gonna share some screenshots. | /r/csharp | 2023-05-19

    GitHub/WCT/Controls/DataGrid (source code for the control)

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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).

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Index

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

Project Stars
1 PowerToys 104,324
2 v2rayN 61,087
3 PowerShell 43,290
4 Files 31,870
5 Avalonia 23,672
6 DevToys 23,009
7 PEASS-ng 14,874
8 N_m3u8DL-CLI 13,469
9 optimizer 12,114
10 Chocolatey 9,866
11 Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller 9,431
12 MahApps.Metro 9,122
13 WingetUI 8,597
14 EarTrumpet 8,408
15 mRemoteNG 8,408
16 Uno Platform 8,363
17 Notepads 8,367
18 Dependencies 8,109
19 EverythingToolbar 7,800
20 Windows-Auto-Night-Mode 6,779
21 Flow.Launcher 6,249
22 xdm 6,214
23 UWP Community Toolkit 5,770

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