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

• ASP.NET Core

  1,635 34,633 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

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• Entity Framework

  91 13,435 9.9 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

• Dapper

  46 17,229 8.2 C#

  Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net

  

3. Dapper

• FluentValidation

  21 8,850 7.5 C#

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

  

18. FluentValidation.AspNetCore

• Serilog

  58 7,027 8.4 C#

  Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events

  

5. Serilog

• Hangfire

  63 9,140 9.3 C#

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

  

6. Hangfire

• Moq

  27 5,215 6.6 C#

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

  

8. Moq

• SaaSHub

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• Json.NET

  56 10,597 4.6 C#

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

9. Newtonsoft.Json

• SignalR

  6 9,124 1.4 C#

  Incredibly simple real-time web for .NET

  

10. SignalR

• Refit

  34 8,192 8.2 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

• CsvHelper

  37 4,584 8.6 C#

  Library to help reading and writing CSV files

13. CsvHelper

• Humanizer

  12 8,471 9.6 C#

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

  

14. Humanizer

• Fluent Assertions

  8 3,642 9.5 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

• Xamarin.Forms

  28 5,637 6.1 C#

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

  

16. Xamarin.Forms

• UnityCsReference

  59 11,510 7.4 C#

  Unity C# reference source code.

  

17. Unity

• Hangfire.Dashboard.Authorization

  1 139 5.9 C#

  Some authorization filters for Hangfire's Dashboard

  

19. Hangfire.Dashboard.Authorization

• xUnit

  37 4,086 9.3 C#

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

  

20. XUnit

• SaaSHub

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