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MSBuild
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) build platform for .NET and VS
The Microsoft Build Engine is a platform for building applications. This engine, which is also known as MSBuild, provides an XML schema for a project file that controls how the build platform processes and builds software. Visual Studio uses MSBuild, but MSBuild doesn't depend on Visual Studio. By invoking msbuild.exe on your project or solution file, you can orchestrate and build products in environments where Visual Studio isn't installed. Visual Studio uses MSBuild to load and build managed projects. The project files in Visual Studio (.csproj, .vbproj, .vcxproj, and others) contain MSBuild XML code that executes when you build a project by using the IDE. Visual Studio projects import all the necessary settings and build processes to do typical development work, but you can extend or modify them from within Visual Studio or by using an XML editor. Starting with Visual Studio 2022, when you build in Visual Studio, the 64-bit version of MSBuild is used. -
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Report Manager
Reporting tool, libraries and designer
Report Manager is both a print scheme designer (report) and a high level printing (reporting) engine. Also a TCP Report Server and a Web Report Server (PDF on the fly), supports Windows and Linux. Connectivity to almost all databases is provided. -
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Framework for building Windows desktop applications
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a UI framework for building Windows desktop applications. WPF supports a broad set of application development features, including an application model, resources, controls, graphics, layout, data binding and documents. WPF uses the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) to provide a declarative model for application programming. WPF applications are based on a vector graphics architecture. This enables applications to look great on high DPI monitors, as they can be infinitely scaled. WPF also includes a flexible hosting model, which makes it straightforward to host a video in a button, for example. The visual designer provided in Visual Studio makes it easy to build WPF application, with drag-in-drop and/or direct editing of XAML markup. WinForms is another UI framework for building Windows desktop applications that is supported on .NET (6.0.x/5.0.x/3.1.x). WPF and WinForms applications only run on Windows. -
99.99% Uptime for MySQL and PostgreSQL on Google CloudCloud SQL Enterprise Plus gives you a 99.99% availability SLA with near-zero downtime maintenance—typically under 10 seconds. Get 2x better read/write performance, intelligent data caching, and 35 days of point-in-time recovery. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server with built-in vector search for gen AI apps. New customers get $300 in free credit.
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SMC - The State Machine Compiler
Translates state machine into a target programming language.
SMC takes a state machine stored in a .sm file and generates a State pattern in 14 programming languages. Includes: default transitions, transition args, transition guards, push/pop transitions and Entry/Exit actions. See User Manual for more info. -
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Cake
Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system
Cake (C# Make) is a free and open-source cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files, and building NuGet packages. Cake is built on top of the Roslyn compiler which enables you to write your build scripts in pure C# in either a standard console project, using Cake Frosting, or as Cake script using Cake .NET Tool. Cake runs on a modern .NET platform (.NET Core 3.1 or .NET 5 and newer) and is available on Windows, Linux, and macOS. See Runners for a list of available runners. Cake can run as simple console applications with full IDE integration including IntelliSense or refactoring. There are extensions available to provide advanced features for the most popular IDEs and editors. See Editors for a detailed feature list. Regardless if you're building on your own machine, or building on a CI system such as Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, TeamCity or Jenkins. -
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pngcrush and other tools for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) and MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) files.
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LuaEdit is an IDE/Text Editor/Debugger for the Lua language. Its interface looks like MS Visual Studio .Net� and includes syntax highlighting, code completion, advance breakpoint management, efficient search engines, etc. Client under GPL and server (core debugger) under LGPL.
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Uno Platform
Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps
The first and only UI Platform for single-codebase applications for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux. The only open source-platform for creating true single-source, multi-platform applications. Reuse 99% of the business logic and UI layer across native mobile, web and desktop. Maintain pixel-perfect control over where pixels go while having a choice of developing a platform-specific or custom look and feel of your application. Familiarity and richness of C# and XAML combined with productivity boosts of hot reload, hot restart, edit and continue and more. Use familiar editors like Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code or Rider. Free and paid support is available by both community and our team. Chats, tickets or even screen sharing! Seeing is believing. Learn by doing. See code samples our engineers put out for fun, learning and reuse. Explore the possibilities Uno Platform opens. -
AI-powered service management for IT and enterprise teamsGive your IT, operations, and business teams the ability to deliver exceptional services—without the complexity. Maximize operational efficiency with refreshingly simple, AI-powered Freshservice.
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Wrye Bash has moved to Github! Downloads: https://github.com/wrye-bash/wrye-bash/releases Code: https://github.com/wrye-bash/wrye-bash
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BitBurner
BitBurner AVR Programmer, a full and complete AVRdude GUI for Windows.
BitBurner AVR Programmer is a graphical front end for the command line program AVRdude. It is used to transfer programs and data to the Atmel AVR family of microcontrollers. BitBurner is an attempt at a single AVRdude GUI programming solution for AVR developers and experimenters by providing comprehensive device support over a broad range of programming hardware. BitBurner supports all devices, memory spaces and programming hardware protocols provided by the latest version of AVRdude, including support for XMEGA devices. BitBurner hosts a full-function hex editor capable of direct transfers to and from all memory spaces of all devices. BitBurner contains a complete fuse and lock calculator with an extensive database describing all AVRdude's supported devices and more. BitBurner has innovative automation functions intended to simplify and accelerate the build process. By monitoring project output files BitBurner can trigger programming actions without direct interaction. -
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CruiseControl.NET
An automated continuous integration server for the .NET platform
CruiseControl.NET is an automated continuous integration server for the .NET platform. It is a C# port of CruiseControl for Java. -
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WixEdit
Project moved to Github: https://github.com/WixEdit/WixEdit
WixEdit is an editor for XML source code of the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset. WixEdit lets you create MSI and MSM setup packages with the WiX Toolset. It provides a visual representation of the dialogs and an easy way to edit the WiX source files. (Project moved to Github: https://github.com/WixEdit/WixEdit) -
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XML Unit
XMLUnit provides assertions that help testing code that produces XML.
XMLUnit 2.x Development Moved to GitHub XMLUnit provides help with testing code that creates or consumes XML. XMLUNit 2.x is available for both Java and .NET with a similar API. Development of this version has moved to a GitHub organization[1] with two git repositories for Java and .NET respectively. All discussion about XMLUnit independent of any version will happen on the XMLUnit general mailing list[2]. XMLUnit for Java 1.x is no longer maintained, please use the legacy artifacts of XMLUnit 2.x if you still need APIs compatible with XMLUnit 1.x. We keep using the Sourceforge infrastructure that has served as well for many years to host forums and mailing lists. XMLUnit for .NET 0.x is not maintained any longer. [1] https://github.com/xmlunit [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/xmlunit/mailman/xmlunit-general/ -
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War Setup is an application to make .msi software installation packages. It uses the free Wix toolset from Microsoft to build the .msi files.
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XNB Builder
Create .xnb files for XNA games.
Recently updated to fix an error where content would never be compressed. You should update to the latest version in order to fix this. Note: The full version of XNA game studio is required for conversion. See the ReadMe for details on where to download it. Create .xnb files for use in XNA games. This allows for .png to .xnb and more. Full list of supported filetypes: Graphics Files: *.bmp;*.dds;*.dib;*.hdr;*.jpg;*.pfm;*.png;*.ppm;*.tga Autodesk FBX Files: *.fbx Effects Files: *.fx SpriteFont Files: *.spritefont X Files: *.x XNA XML Files: *.xml Audio Files: *.mp3;*.wav;*.wma Video Files: *.wmv Support for some filetypes may be incomplete, graphics filetypes should all be fine. If there's an issue with converting a certain filetype, please let me know! -
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Electron.NET
Build cross platform desktop apps with ASP.NET Core
Build cross-platform desktop apps with .NET 5 and ASP.NET NET Core (Razor Pages, MVC), Blazor. Electron.NET is a wrapper around a "normal" Electron application with an embedded ASP.NET Core application. Via our Electron.NET IPC bridge we can invoke Electron APIs from .NET. The CLI extensions host our toolset to build and start Electron.NET applications. There are lots of different approaches how to get an X-plat desktop app running. We thought it would be nice for .NET devs to use the ASP.NET Core environment and just embed it inside a pretty robust X-plat environment called Electron. Porting Electron to .NET is not a goal of this project, at least we don't have any clue how to do it. We just combine ASP.NET Core & Electron. The current Electron.NET CLI builds Windows/macOS/Linux binaries. Our API uses .NET 5, so our minimum base OS is the same as .NET 5. -
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Foundatio
Pluggable foundation blocks for building distributed apps
Pluggable foundation blocks for building loosely coupled distributed apps. Includes implementations in Redis, Azure, AWS, RabbitMQ and in memory (for development). When building several big cloud applications we found a lack of great solutions (that's not to say there aren't solutions out there) for many key pieces to building scalable distributed applications while keeping the development experience simple. Wanted to build against abstract interfaces so that we could easily change implementations. Wanted the blocks to be dependency injection friendly. We were initially using an open-source Redis cache client but then it turned into a commercial product with high licensing costs. Not only that but there weren't any in-memory implementations so every developer was required to set up and configure Redis. We initially looked at NServiceBus (a great product) but it had high licensing costs (they have to eat too) and was not OSS friendly. -
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Orleans
Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building distributed apps
Orleans builds on the developer productivity of .NET and brings it to the world of distributed applications, such as cloud services. Orleans scales from a single on-premises server to globally distributed, highly-available applications in the cloud. Orleans takes familiar concepts like objects, interfaces, async/await, and try/catch and extends them to multi-server environments. As such, it helps developers experienced with single-server applications transition to building resilient, scalable cloud services and other distributed applications. For this reason, Orleans has often been referred to as "Distributed .NET". It was created by Microsoft Research and introduced the Virtual Actor Model as a novel approach to building a new generation of distributed systems for the Cloud era. The core contribution of Orleans is its programming model which tames the complexity inherent to highly-parallel distributed systems without restricting capabilities or imposing onerous constraints. -
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SignalR
Incredibly simple real-time web for .NET
Today's modern apps are expected to deliver up-to-date information without hitting a refresh button. Add real-time functionality to your dashboards, maps, games and more. What is real-time functionality? It's the ability to have your server-side code push content to connected clients as it happens, in real-time. SignalR hubs can be written in C# code and added to your ASP.NET app, alongside your pages and APIs. The simple programming model integrates seamlessly with other ASP.NET features like dependency injection, authentication, authorization, and scalability. While chat is often used as an example, you can do a whole lot more. Any time a user refreshes a web page to see new data, or the page implements Ajax long polling to retrieve new data, it's candidate for using SignalR. SignalR also enables completely new types of applications that require high-frequency updates from the server, such as real-time gaming. -
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Windows UI Library
Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications
WinUI is a user interface layer that contains modern controls and styles for building Windows apps. As the native UI layer in Windows it embodies Fluent Design, giving each Windows app the polished feel that customers expect. WinUI 2 is a library of controls that provides official native Microsoft UI controls and features for Windows UWP apps. WinUI 2 can be used in any Windows 10 UWP XAML app, or in a Xamarin.Forms app running on Windows 10 using native view embedding. WinUI 3 is the next generation of the WinUI framework. It dramatically expands WinUI into a full UX framework, making WinUI available for all types of Windows apps, from Win32 to UWP, for use as the UI layer. You can build new Windows apps using WinUI 3, which ships as a part of the Windows App SDK. The latest available stable release is the Windows App SDK 0.8 (previously called Project Reunion). With this release, you can ship production Desktop apps to the Microsoft Store. -
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With RegEx Tester you can fully develop and test your regular expression against a target text. It's UI is designed to aid you in the RegEx developing. It uses and supports ALL of the features available in the .NET RegEx Class.
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wx.NET is a C# wrapper for wxWidgets (www.wxwidgets.org), providing a portable GUI toolkit for .NET programs. Supported on Windows, Linux GTK, and Mac OS X using MS.NET or Mono. Visit wxnet.sf.net or click "Project Home Page" below to learn more.
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CIL disassembler written in C# by Mono Project. This fork is coming with some bug fixes. Uses Mono.Cecil, get from https://www.mono-project.com/docs/tools+libraries/libraries/Mono.Cecil/ if you don't have it already.
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XAPK Packaging Tool
Simple and efficient tool for XAPK packaging.
The XAPK Packaging Tool provides a powerful solution to simplify the packaging, management and distribution of XAPK files. With this tool, developers can easily bundle APKs, OBB files, and resources into a single XAPK package, ensuring a smooth installation process for users. Key Features: • One-Click Packaging: Quickly combine APK and OBB files into a single XAPK file. • Split APK Support: Efficiently manage and package split APKs for different architectures. • User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies XAPK creation for users of all experience levels. Ideal for Android developers and advanced users, the XAPK Packaging Tool streamlines the app packaging and distribution process. Automate and simplify XAPK creation, and get your app package ready for release quickly and effortlessly.
