ASP.NET Core Library and Framework Support

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Contents

• Experimenting
• Feature Switching
• Profiling
• O/RMs / DBs
• Background Tasks
• Image Manipulation
• Message Queuing
• Windows Services
• Web
• DI / IoC Containers
• Logging
• Serialization
• Testing
• Other

Background

Note: As .NET Core is the future of .NET and .NET 6 (i.e. .NET Core 5) is now out, this list is mostly redundant. It is here as a record but is unlikely to be updated.

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In the process of writing a book on ASP.NET Core and .NET Core, I've done lots of research into what .NET libraries and frameworks are currently supported by these new platforms. Here are the results (and more), hopefully you'll find this useful. Obviously these will change (and hopefully grow) over time. Send me a pull request if you'd like to make a correction or add something. This is a living document.

Experimenting

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
Scientist.NET	Install-Package scientist	Yes	Yes	Blog

Feature Switching

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
FeatureSwitcher	Install-Package FeatureSwitcher	Yes (v2+)	Yes (v2+)
FeatureToggle	Install-Package FeatureToggle	Yes (v4+)	Yes (v4+)	Blog

Profiling

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
MiniProfiler	Install-Package MiniProfiler	Yes	Yes	miniprofiler.com
Glimpse	Install-Package Glimpse -Pre	Yes	Yes	getglimpse.com
Prefix	N/A (download installer)	Yes	Yes	prefix.io
Unchase.FluentPerformanceMeter	Install-Package Unchase.FluentPerformanceMeter	Yes	Yes	performance.unchase.ru

O/RMs / DBs

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
Dapper	Install-Package Dapper -Pre	Yes	Yes	github.io
Simple.Data	Install-Package Simple.Data.SqlServer	WIP	WIP	GH Issue
EF Core	Install-Package EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer -Pre	Yes	Yes	efproject.net
NHibernate
Npgsql	Install-Package Npgsql	Yes	Yes	npgsql.org
MongoDB Driver		WIP	WIP	mongodb.github.io/mongo-csharp-driver
Couchbase
Couchbase Lite for .NET
Elasticsearch.Net	Install-Package Elasticsearch.Net	?	?	elastic.co
NEST	Install-Package NEST	?	?	elastic.co
StackExchange.Redis		?	?
Lucene.NET	Install-Package Lucene.Net			lucenenet.apache.org
CassandraCSharpDriver	Install-Package CassandraCSharpDriver
RavenDB
Marten	Install-Package Marten	Yes	Yes	jasperfx.github.io/marten

Background Tasks

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
Hangfire	Install-Package Hangfire	Yes	Yes	hangfire.io

Image Manipulation

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
ImageResizer	Install-Package ImageResizer.WebConfig	WIP	WIP	imageresizing.net
DynamicImage	Install-Package DynamicImage	No	No	dynamicimage.apphb.com
ImageSharp	Install-Package SixLabors.ImageSharp	Yes	Yes	ImageSharp

Message Queuing

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
RestBus	Install-Package RestBus.AspNet -Pre (guide)	Yes	Yes	restbus.org (Blog)
EasyNetQ	Install-Package EasyNetQ	Yes	Yes	easynetq.com
RabbitMQ client	Install-Package RabbitMQ.Client	Yes	Yes	rabbitmq.com
MassTransit	Install-Package MassTransit.RabbitMQ	WIP	WIP	masstransit-project.com
RdKafka	Install-Package RdKafka	Yes	Yes	ah-.github.io/rdkafka-dotnet
NServiceBus
Brighter	Install-Package Paramore.Brighter.CommandProcessor -Version 6.1.8	Yes	Yes	Paramore

Windows Services

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
Topshelf	Install-Package Topshelf	WIP	WIP	topshelf-project.com

Web

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
Nancy	Install-Package Nancy -Pre	Yes	Yes	nancyfx.org
SignalR	Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR	WIP	WIP	signalr.net
ReactJS.NET	Install-Package React.AspNet	WIP	Yes	ReactJS.NET
Swashbuckle	Install-Package Swashbuckle -Pre	Yes	Yes

DI / IoC Containers

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
Windsor	{no .NET Core support}	WIP	WIP	castleproject.org
Ninject	{no .NET Core support}	No	No	ninject.org
Autofac	Install-Package Autofac -Pre	Yes	WIP	autofac.org
SimpleInjector	Install-Package SimpleInjector -Version 3.1.5	Yes	Yes	simpleinjector.org
Unity	Install-Package Unity-CoreClr -Pre	?	?
StructureMap	Install-Package StructureMap	Yes	Yes	structuremap.github.io
CommonServiceLocator

ASP.NET Core contains built-in DI

Logging

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
Serilog		?	?
NLog		Yes	Yes	nlog-project.org
common.logging
log4net
ELM	Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.Elm	Yes	Yes
ELMAH		No	No	elmah.github.io
Sentry	Install-Package Sentry	Yes	Yes	sentry.io
elmah.io	Install-Package Elmah.Io.Client	Yes	Yes	elmah.io

ASP.NET Core contains built-in logging

Serialization

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
JSON.NET	Install-Package Newtonsoft.Json	Yes	Yes	newtonsoft.com/json
Jil		Yes	Yes
NetJSON		WIP	WIP
ServiceStack.Text		No	No
Bond		Yes	Yes
protobuf-net	Install-Package protobuf-net	No	No

Testing

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
xUnit.net	Install-Package xunit	Yes	Yes	xunit.github.io
Nunit		Yes	Yes
Nunit CLI Test Runner	Install-Package dotnet-test-nunit -Pre	WIP Pre	WIP Pre
Moq
FakeItEasy	Install-Package FakeItEasy	Yes	Yes	fakeiteasy.github.io
Selenium
SpecFlow
Shouldly	Install-Package Shouldly			shouldly.readthedocs.io
xBehave.net	Install-Package Xbehave	Yes	Yes	xbehave.github.io

Other

Project	NuGet Install Command	.NET Core Support	ASP.NET Core Support	Website
Orleans	Multiple	WIP	WIP	dotnet.github.io/orleans
Huxley 2	N/A	Yes	Yes	unop.uk/huxley-2-release
AutoMapper	Install-Package AutoMapper -Pre	Yes	Yes	automapper.org
Stuntman	Install-Package RimDev.Stuntman	No	No	rimdev.io/stuntman
Akka.NET	Install-Package Akka	WIP	WIP	getakka.net
GraphQL for .NET	Install-Package GraphQL	No	No
Antlr	Install-Package Antlr4 -Pre	WIP	WIP	antlr.org
DotNetOpenAuth
RestSharp
HtmlAgilityPack
AngleSharp
FluentAssertions		?	?
FluentValidation
Guard	Install-Package Dawn.Guard	Yes	Yes
NSubstitute
CsvHelper	Install-Package CsvHelper	Yes	Yes	joshclose.github.io/CsvHelper
Polly	Install-Package Polly	?	?
slow-cheetah
iTextSharp
Quartz
AutoFixture
Reactive Extensions
epplus
Open XML SDK
EnterpriseLibrary		No	No
MVVMLight	Install-Package MvvmLightLibs			mvvmlight.net
dotless
Google.apis
RhinoMocks
Twilio	Install-Package Twilio -Pre	?	?	twilio.com/api
SharpZipLib	Install-Package SharpZipLib			icsharpcode.github.io/SharpZipLib
BouncyCastle		?	?
Facebook SDK	Install-Package Facebook			facebook.com/csharpsdk
NodaTime
SSH.NET
Mono.Cecil
Octokit	Install-Package Octokit			developer.github.com/v3
Octo.exe				octopus.com
IdentityServer4		?	?
PushSharp
CodeContracts
Braintree SDK
Mimekit		?	?
Mailkit		Yes	Yes
Jint		?	?
IdentityManager		?	?
MEF2	Install-Package Microsoft.Composition	?	?	mef.codeplex.com
XMPP	Install-Package XMPP			ubiety.github.io/xmpp
System.Net.Mail	Install-Package System.Net.Mail -Pre
Salesforce Toolkits for .NET
OData	Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.OData	?	?	odata.github.io
Orchard				orchardproject.net
YesSql		?	?
GenFu		?	?
MS Build
Azure SDK		?	?	azure.microsoft.com
Azure Storage SDK	install-package WindowsAzure.Storage -Pre	Yes	Yes	azure.microsoft.com
Microsoft.Hadoop.Client
AWS SDK	Install-Package AWSSDK.Core -Pre	WIP	WIP
C# BitTorrent library		No	No	cheatdeath.github.io/research-bittorrent-doc
FluentScheduler		Yes	Yes
Quartz.NET		WIP	WIP	quartz-scheduler.net
NBitcoin	Install-Package NBitcoin	Yes
Web Markup Minifier	Install-Package WebMarkupMin.Core	Yes	Yes
LibGit2Sharp	Install-Package LibGit2Sharp	Yes	Yes	libgit2.org
FastMember	Install-Package FastMember	Yes	Yes
NFluent	Install-Package NFluent	Yes	Yes	n-fluent.net
Charming	Install-Package Charming.Types	Yes	Yes	GitHub Wiki

License

To the extent possible under law, James Singleton has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.