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/.

FluentValidation by: Jeremy Skinner

A validation library for .NET that uses a fluent interface to construct strongly-typed validation rules.

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.

dbup by: Paul Stovell, Jim Burger, Jake Ginnivan, Damian Maclennan

This package exists to allow easy upgrades from pre-4.0 version This package was split into two packages dbup-core and dbup-sqlserver so that non SQL Server packages did not need to also reference the SQL Server code. Uninstall this package and install dbup-sqlserver, or the package for the server(s) you are targeting instead!

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.

ExcelNumberFormat by: ExcelNumberFormat developers

.NET library to parse ECMA-376 number format strings and format values like Excel and other spreadsheet softwares.

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.

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.

FluentNHibernate by: James Gregory and contributors

Fluent, XML-less, compile safe, automated, convention-based mappings for NHibernate.

FluentAssertions by: Dennis Doomen, Jonas Nyrup, Xceed

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. Works with .NET Standard 2.0 and higher, .NET Framework 4.7 and higher and .NET 6 and higher. Supports the unit test frameworks MSTest2, NUnit3, NUnit4, XUnit2, XUnit3, MSpec and TUnit. IMPORTANT: This version is free for open-source projects and non-commercial use, but commercial use requires [a paid license](https://xceed.com/products/unit-testing/fluent-assertions/). Check out the [license page](LICENSE) for more information.

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.