20 Top C# Frameworks and Libraries on GitHub for Building Powerful Applications

1. ASP.NET Core

   1 1,649 36,840 9.9 C#

   ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

   

   1. ASP.NET Core

2. Stream

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3. Entity Framework

   2 96 14,202 9.8 C#

   EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.

   

   2. Entity Framework Core

4. Dapper

   3 60 17,974 6.2 C#

   Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net

   

   3. Dapper

5. FluentValidation

   4 26 9,418 7.7 C#

   A popular .NET validation library for building strongly-typed validation rules.

   

   18. FluentValidation.AspNetCore

6. Serilog

   5 67 7,631 7.3 C#

   Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events

   

   5. Serilog

7. Hangfire

   6 67 9,766 8.7 C#

   An easy way to perform background job processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required

   

   6. Hangfire

8. Moq

   7 27 5,215 6.6 C#

   Discontinued Repo for managing Moq 4.x [Moved to: https://github.com/moq/moq]

   

   8. Moq

9. InfluxDB

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10. Json.NET

    8 58 11,094 6.0 C#

    Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET

    

    9. Newtonsoft.Json

11. SignalR

    9 7 9,292 3.9 C#

    Incredibly simple real-time web for .NET

    

    10. SignalR

12. Refit

    10 35 9,122 8.7 C#

    The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface.

    

    12. Refit

13. CsvHelper

    11 40 4,975 6.9 C#

    Library to help reading and writing CSV files

    

    13. CsvHelper

14. Humanizer

    12 13 9,004 8.1 C#

    Humanizer meets all your .NET needs for manipulating and displaying strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities

    

    14. Humanizer

15. Fluent Assertions

    13 15 3,808 9.4 C#

    A very extensive set of extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style unit tests. Targets .NET Framework 4.7, as well as .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.0, .NET 6, .NET Standard 2.0 and 2.1. Supports the unit test frameworks MSTest2, NUnit3, XUnit2, MSpec, and NSpec3.

    

    15. FluentAssertions

16. Xamarin.Forms

    14 29 5,637 6.1 C#

    Discontinued Xamarin.Forms is no longer supported. Migrate your apps to .NET MAUI.

    

    16. Xamarin.Forms

17. UnityCsReference

    15 60 12,369 7.1 C#

    Unity C# reference source code.

    

    17. Unity

18. Hangfire.Dashboard.Authorization

    16 1 151 5.7 C#

    Some authorization filters for Hangfire's Dashboard

    

    19. Hangfire.Dashboard.Authorization

19. xUnit

    17 44 4,405 9.6 C#

    xUnit.net is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for .NET.

    

    20. XUnit

20. SaaSHub

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