Examine by: Shannon Deminick

Examine is a wrapper for getting a Lucene index up and running for any type of data and comes with an API to search it. You can either use the Fluent API that the library comes with or use raw Lucene query syntax. The indexing is configurable and will allow both synchronous and asynchronous indexing and everything works happily in web projects too.

dotless by: Daniel Hölbling, James Foster, Luke Page

Meta package to provide backward compatibility. Please choose either dotless.AspNet or dotless.Core. This is a project to port the hugely useful Less libary to the .NET world. It give variables, nested rules and operators to CSS. For more information about the original Less project see http://lesscss.org/ or http://github.com/dotless/dotless. For more information about how to get started with the .NET version see http://www.dotlesscss.org/.

FastMember by: Marc Gravell

In .NET reflection is slow... well, kinda slow. If you need access to the members of an arbitrary type, with the type and member-names known only at runtime - then it is frankly hard (especially for DLR types). This library makes such access easy and fast.

EntityFramework by: Microsoft

Entity Framework 6 (EF6) is a tried and tested object-relational mapper for .NET with many years of feature development and stabilization.

CommonServiceLocator by: .NET Foundation and Contributors

The library provides an abstraction over IoC containers and service locators. Using the library allows an application to indirectly access the capabilities without relying on hard references.

Fody by: The Fody Team

Extensible tool for weaving .net assemblies.

GemBox.Spreadsheet by: GemBox

GemBox.Spreadsheet is a .NET component that enables you to read, write, convert, and print spreadsheet files (XLSX, XLS, XLSB, CSV, HTML, and ODS) from .NET applications. With GemBox.Spreadsheet you get a fast and reliable component that's easy to use and doesn't depend on Microsoft Excel. It requires only .NET and it's much faster than Microsoft Office Automation!

DartSassBuilder by: Johan van Rensburg, Dean Wiseman

Compile Sass files to css on project build.

Elasticsearch.Net by: Elasticsearch Inc. and contributors

Exposes all the api endpoints but leaves you in control of building the request and response bodies. Comes with built in cluster failover/connection pooling support.

GeoAPI by: NetTopologySuite Team

GeoAPI.NET project provides a common framework based on OGC/ISO standards to improve interoperability among .NET GIS projects.

DotNetAnalyzers.PublicApiAnalyzer by: Sam Harwell et. al.

An analyzer for packages with public APIs.

DotNetZip by: Dino Chiesa

DotNetZip is an easy-to-use, FAST, FREE class library and toolset for manipulating zip files or folders.

Common.Logging by: Aleksandar Seovic, Mark Pollack, Erich Eichinger

Common.Logging library introduces a simple abstraction to allow you to select a specific logging implementation at runtime.

Gee.External.Capstone by: Ahmed Garhy (@9ee1)

Capstone.NET is an opinionated .NET Core and a .NET Framework binding for the Capstone disassembly framework. It is written in C#, supports Capstone 4, and has a friendly and simple type safe API that is ridiculously easy to learn and quick to pick up.

DocumentFormat.OpenXml by: Microsoft

The Open XML SDK provides tools for working with Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. It supports scenarios such as: - High-performance generation of word-processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. - Populating content in Word files from an XML data source. - Splitting up (shredding) a Word or PowerPoint file into multiple files, and combining multiple Word/PowerPoint files into a single file. - Extraction of data from Excel documents. - Searching and replacing content in Word/PowerPoint using regular expressions. - Updating cached data and embedded spreadsheets for charts in Word/PowerPoint. - Document modification, such as removing tracked revisions or removing unacceptable content from documents.

Dapper by: Sam Saffron, Marc Gravell

A high performance Micro-ORM supporting Sql Server, MySQL, Sqlite, SqlCE, Firebird etc..

CronExpressionDescriptor by: Brady Holt

A library that converts cron expressions into human readable strings.

CommandLineParser by: Giacomo Stelluti Scala

The Command Line Parser Library offers to CLR applications a clean and concise API for manipulating command line arguments and related tasks.

dotless.AspNetHandler by: Daniel Hölbling, James Foster, Luke Page

Adds HTTPHandler for ASP.NET to compile LESS files on demand. This is a project to port the hugely useful Less libary to the .NET world. It give variables, nested rules and operators to CSS. For more information about the original Less project see http://lesscss.org/ or http://github.com/dotless/dotless. For more information about how to get started with the .NET version see http://www.dotlesscss.org/.

DotNetAnalyzers.PublicApiAnalyzer.Unstable by: Sam Harwell et. al.

An analyzer for packages with public APIs.