Utilities & Core Helpers for .NET
Small, widely used building blocks: text, identifiers, hashing, dates, units, collections and reflection.
- Projects
- 64
- Groups
- 4
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- 31.7K
Text, strings & formatting 17
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ZString MIT Zero Allocation StringBuilder for .NET and Unity. ★ 2.8K ⤓ 29.6M -
Enums.NET MIT Enums.NET is a high-performance type-safe .NET enum utility library ★ 1.8K ⤓ 80.4M -
DiffPlex Apache-2.0 DiffPlex is Netstandard 2.0+ C# library to generate textual diffs. ★ 1.3K ⤓ 46.3M -
FuzzySharp Inactive MIT C# .NET fuzzy string matching implementation of Seat Geek's well known python FuzzyWuzzy algorithm. ★ 797 ⤓ 18.2M -
ByteSize Inactive MIT ByteSize is a utility class that makes byte size representation in code easier by removing ambiguity of the value being represented. ByteSize is to bytes what System.TimeSpan is to time. ★ 603 ⤓ 23.9M -
TextCopy MIT A cross platform package to copy text to and from the clipboard. ★ 574 ⤓ 22M -
StringSimilarity.NET A .NET port of java-string-similarity ★ 507 ⤓ 7.9M -
ObjectDumper.NET MIT ObjectDumper is a utility which aims to serialize C# objects to string for debugging and logging purposes. ★ 426 ⤓ 2.8M -
ReadableExpressions MIT A library and Debugger Visualizer which translates Expression Trees into readable C# source code. .NET 3.5+ and .NET Standard 1.0+. ★ 415 ⤓ 6.1M -
Fastenshtein MIT The fastest .Net Levenshtein around ★ 291 ⤓ 12.6M -
NaturalSort.Extension MIT 🔀 Extension method for StringComparison that adds support for natural sorting (e.g. "abc1", "abc2", "abc10" instead of "abc1", "abc10", "abc2"). ★ 224 ⤓ 3.6M -
Fare MIT Port of Java dk.brics.automaton and xeger, mostly used for generating strings that match a specific regular expression. ★ 193 ⤓ 359.2M -
MessageFormat.NET MIT ICU MessageFormat implementation for .NET. ★ 193 ⤓ 3.8M -
SimMetrics.Net MIT SimMetrics is a Similarity Metric Library, e.g. from edit distance's (Levenshtein, Gotoh, Jaro etc) to other metrics, (e.g Soundex, Chapman). This library support multiple .NET versions including .NET Core (NETStandard 1.x) ★ 150 ⤓ 52.1M -
Markdown (hey-red) Archived MIT Open source C# implementation of Markdown processor, as featured on Stack Overflow. ★ 133 ⤓ 18M -
Slugify MIT Simple Slug / Clean URL generator helper for Microsoft .NET framework / .NET Standard. ★ 122 ⤓ 7.3M -
Pluralize.NET Inactive MIT :blue_book: Pluralize or singularize any English word. ★ 65 ⤓ 8.8M
IDs, hashing & encoding 20
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Hashids.net Inactive MIT A small .NET package to generate YouTube-like hashes from one or many numbers. Use hashids when you do not want to expose your database ids to the user. ★ 3.4K ⤓ 18.4M -
Ulid MIT Fast .NET C# Implementation of ULID for .NET and Unity. ★ 1.6K ⤓ 26.1M -
IdGen MIT Twitter Snowflake-alike ID generator for .Net ★ 1.3K ⤓ 11M -
DeviceId MIT A simple library providing functionality to generate a 'device ID' that can be used to uniquely identify a computer. ★ 879 ⤓ 3.7M -
Nanoid MIT .NET implementation of ai's nanoid ★ 565 ⤓ 10.8M -
UUIDNext 0BSD A fast and modern .NET library to generate UUID/GUID that are either sequential and database friendly (versions 7), name based (versions 5) or random (version 4). ★ 387 ⤓ 12.8M -
Semver MIT A semantic version library for .NET fully compliant with v2.0.0 of the spec found at http://semver.org/. ★ 327 ⤓ 83.2M -
FileSignatures MIT A small library for detecting the type of a file based on header signature (also known as magic number). ★ 326 ⤓ 6.3M -
shortid MIT 🆔 A csharp library to generate short id's. they can be used as primary keys or unique identifiers ★ 249 ⤓ 8.5M -
RT.Comb Creating sequential GUIDs in C# for MSSQL or PostgreSql ★ 214 ⤓ 13.4M -
Crc32.NET MIT Fast version of Crc32 algorithm for .NET ★ 204 ⤓ 39.4M -
PasswordGenerator MIT A library which generates random passwords with different settings to meet the OWASP requirements ★ 189 ⤓ 15.3M -
SimpleBase Apache-2.0 .NET library for encoding/decoding Base16, Base32, Base45, Base58, Base62, Base85, and Multibase. ★ 180 ⤓ 12M -
Mime-Detective The ultimate file-extension & mime-type library with over 14,000+ signatures. Quickly detect extensions & mime types from a stream or byte array using magic numbers (file headers) and magic words. A default signature library is included and can be expanded using Mime-Detective.Definitions.Condensed (common signatures) or Mime-Detective.Definitions.Exhaustive (14,000+ signatures). ★ 138 ⤓ 17.6M -
SemanticVersioning MIT Semantic versioning for .NET ★ 126 ⤓ 13.4M -
murmurhash-net Inactive Apache-2.0 .NET implementation of the murmurhash ★ 113 ⤓ 40.7M -
MimeTypes Apache-2.0 A simple lookup from file name/extension to MIME/media type, generated from mime-db, which in turn is compiled from IANA, Apache and nginx's MIME types. ★ 110 ⤓ 19.8M -
MimeMapping MIT Constants for (almost) all MIME types and file extensions, and method to determine MIME type of a file name. ★ 83 ⤓ 28.4M -
K4os.Hash.xxHash Inactive MIT XXHash for .NET Core 1.1/2.0 & .NET Standard 1.6/2.0 ★ 31 ⤓ 104.5M -
Multiformats.Base Archived MIT Multibase implementation in C# ★ 16 ⤓ 10M
Dates, time & units 13
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Nager.Date ◐ Open core MIT Easily access public holidays for 200+ countries via .NET, REST API, Docker, or NuGet for online and offline use. ★ 1.4K ⤓ 24.4M -
Ical.Net iCal.NET - iCalendar library for .Net ★ 982 ⤓ 38.5M -
TimeZoneConverter Lightweight libraries to convert between IANA, Windows, Rails, and POSIX time zones. ★ 905 ⤓ 346.7M -
DateTimeExtensions This project is a merge of several common DateTime operations on the form of extensions to System.DateTime, including natural date difference text (precise and human rounded), holidays and working days calculations on several culture locales. ★ 903 ⤓ 2.1M -
FluentDateTime MIT Allows cleaner DateTime expressions and operations ★ 698 ⤓ 6.7M -
GeoTimeZone Provides an IANA time zone identifier from latitude and longitude coordinates. ★ 254 ⤓ 15.1M -
PublicHoliday MIT Calculate Public Holidays ★ 248 ⤓ 7.9M -
Exceptionless.DateTimeExtensions Apache-2.0 DateTimeRange, Business Day and various DateTime, DateTimeOffset, TimeSpan extension methods ★ 247 ⤓ 1.2M -
TimeZoneNames MIT Provides a complete source of localized time zone names. ★ 223 ⤓ 26M -
Nager.Country MIT Complete .NET library for worldwide country data: ISO codes, currencies, languages, regions, borders & translations for 250+ countries. ★ 169 ⤓ 7.6M -
IbanNet Apache-2.0 C# .NET IBAN validator, parser, builder and generator ★ 155 ⤓ 11.8M -
ISO3166 Inactive MIT ISO 3166-1 country list for .NET ★ 84 ⤓ 19.3M -
Occurify MIT A powerful and intuitive .NET library for defining, filtering, transforming, and scheduling instant and period timelines. ★ 79 ⤓ 51.7K
Collections, reflection & cloning 14
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Towel Inactive MIT Throw in the towel. ★ 780 ⤓ 260.9K -
Collections.Pooled Inactive MIT Fast, low-allocation ports of List, Dictionary, HashSet, Stack, and Queue using ArrayPool and Span. ★ 599 ⤓ 9.9M -
DeepCloner Inactive MIT Fast object cloner for .NET ★ 577 ⤓ 27M -
Algorithmia Legacy Algorithm and data-structure library for .NET 4.5.2+/Netstandard 2.0+. Algorithmia contains sophisticated algorithms and data-structures like graphs, priority queues, command, undo-redo and more. ★ 548 ⤓ 619.5K -
DotNet.Glob MIT A fast globbing library for .NET / .NETStandard applications. Outperforms Regex. ★ 404 ⤓ 20.8M -
FastCloner MIT The fastest deep cloning library for .NET – zero-config, works out of the box. ★ 375 ⤓ 1.2M -
ImTools MIT Fast and memory-efficient immutable collections and helper data structures ★ 251 ⤓ 13.7M -
Glob MIT A C# Glob library for .NET and .NET Core. ★ 231 ⤓ 46.3M -
PeanutButter BSD-3-Clause Tasty, versatile, nutritious; goes with many things in .net. ★ 190 ⤓ 6.2M -
Akade.IndexedSet MIT A convenient data structure supporting efficient in-memory indexing and querying, including range queries, fuzzy string matching and vector search. ★ 92 ⤓ 72.9K -
J2N Apache-2.0 Java-like Components for .NET ★ 60 ⤓ 31.6M -
Iesi.Collections The System.Collections namespace in the .NET Framework provides a number of collection types that are extremely useful for manipulating data in memory. However, some specialized implementations of ISet are not available. Iesi.Collections 4.0 for .Net 4.0 contains the LinkedHashSet (preserves insertion order), the ReadOnlySet and the SynchronizedSet. The latter two wrap an actual set. ★ 53 ⤓ 85.3M -
MedallionTopologicalSort Inactive MIT A topological sort implementation for .NET ★ 29 ⤓ 37.5M -
Soenneker Utils MIT Family of 1000+ tiny utility and extension packages from Soenneker. ★ 1 ⤓ 11.3M