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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.

A framework for building JSON:API compliant REST APIs using .NET Core and Entity Framework Core. Includes support for Atomic Operations. The goal of this library is to simplify the development of APIs that leverage the full range of features provided by the JSON:API specification. You just need to focus on defining the resources and implementing your custom business logic. We strive to eliminate as much boilerplate as possible by offering out-of-the-box features such as sorting, filtering and pagination. This library has been designed around dependency injection, making extensibility incredibly easy. The ultimate goal of this library is to eliminate as much boilerplate as possible by offering out-of-the-box features such as sorting, filtering and pagination. You just need to focus on defining the resources and implementing your custom business logic. This library has been designed around dependency injection, making extensibility incredibly easy.

Micro-framework for .NET console application. Cocona makes it easy and fast to build console applications on .NET. Cocona has a mechanism called Parameter set that defines common parameters for multiple commands. For example, if every command receives a user name, host name, etc., it would be annoying to define them in a method for each command. If a class (or record class) has a parameterized constructor, it is treated as part of the definition of a command method. Cocona has filter mechanism like ASP.NET Core's action filter. Filters allow custom processing before or after you run a command. If a constructor has parameters, Cocona injects an instance obtained from IServiceProvider into the parameter. Cocona provides support for shell command-line completion (also known as tab completion).

It eases data access layer building in n-tier applications. It is an Object/Relational mapper with mapping attributes. Supports: multiple DBMS (MS SQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL), inheritance, 1-1, 1-many, many-many relationships and data caching.

This project is a Command Processor & Dispatcher implementation with support for task queues that can be used as a lightweight library. It can be used for implementing Ports and Adapters and CQRS (PDF) architectural styles in .NET. It can also be used in microservices architectures for decoupled communication between the services. Brighter supports Task Queues. As such it can be used to improve performance by introducing concurrency using a queue, and/or as an integration strategy between Microservices using messaging via a lightweight broker. Brighter provides support for CQRS architecture. It provides a simple library for routing commands and events to handlers. Brighter allows you to offload work from your web process to a worker process via a task queue. This allows in or out-of-process handlers. Brighter can act as a communications library for microservices, allowing commands or events to be passed between services.

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.

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.

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.