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🔝Top 10 C# Projects on GitHub (December 2020), the trend and indications

C# remains a popular programming language in 2020. As of December 2020, C# ranks №5 in Tiobe Index, following C, Java, Python and C++

Below are the top 10 C# Projects on GitHub as of December 2020.

Ranking Project Name Stars Forks
1 Shadowsocks-windows 51129 15938
2 PowerShell 23436 3779
3 CodeHub 23092 636
4 Aspnetcore 20354 5783
5 Wox 19137 2067
6 DnSpy 16698 2634
7 V2rayN 16444 3679
8 EShopOnContainers 16098 6775
9 WaveFunctionCollapse 15546 791
10 ShareX 14609 2017

1. Shadowsocks-windows

Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used to circumvent Internet censorship. Why is it so popular, because it is used by a large population!

GitHub logo shadowsocks / shadowsocks-windows

A C# port of shadowsocks

[logo] Shadowsocks for Windows

Build Release

Features

  • Connect to Shadowsocks servers.
  • Automatically set system proxy.
  • SIP002 URL scheme.
  • SIP003 plugins.
  • SIP008 online configuration delivery.

Downloads

Download from releases.

Usage

  • 🚀

PAC

  • The PAC rules are generated from the geosite database in v2fly/domain-list-community.
  • Generation modes: whitelist mode and blacklist mode.
  • Domain groups: geositeDirectGroups and geositeProxiedGroups
    • geositeDirectGroups is initialized with cn and geolocation-!cn@cn.
    • geositeProxiedGroups is initialized with geolocation-!cn.
  • To switch between different modes, modify the geositePreferDirect property in gui-config.json
    • When geositePreferDirect is false (default), PAC works in whitelist mode. Exception rules are generated from geositeDirectGroups. Unmatched domains goes through the proxy.
    • When geositePreferDirect is true, PAC works in blacklist mode. Blocking rules are generated from geositeProxiedGroups. Exception rules are generated from geositeDirectGroups. Unmatched domains are connected to directly.
  • Starting from 4.3.0.0, shadowsocks-windows defaults to whitelist mode with Chinese domains excluded from connecting via the proxy.
  • The new…

2. PowerShell

A cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language. Unlike most shells, which accept and return text, PowerShell is built on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), and accepts and returns .NET objects. This fundamental change brings entirely new tools and methods for automation.

GitHub logo PowerShell / PowerShell

PowerShell for every system!

logo PowerShell

Welcome to the PowerShell GitHub Community PowerShell is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language, and a framework for processing cmdlets.

Windows PowerShell vs. PowerShell 7+

Although this repository started as a fork of the Windows PowerShell codebase, changes made in this repository are not ported back to Windows PowerShell 5.1. This also means that issues tracked here are only for PowerShell 7.x and higher. Windows PowerShell specific issues should be reported with the Feedback Hub app, by choosing "Apps > PowerShell" in the category.

New to PowerShell?

If you are new to PowerShell and want to learn more, we recommend reviewing the getting started documentation.

Get PowerShell

PowerShell is supported…

A good tutorial on Powershell 2020 can be found from the below Youtube video.

3. CodeHub

GitHub logo CodeHubApp / CodeHub

CodeHub is an iOS application written using Xamarin

CodeHub

Gitter

CodeHub is the best way to browse and maintain your GitHub repositories on any iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad device! Keep an eye on your projects with the ability to view everything from pull requests to commenting on individual file diffs in the latest change set. CodeHub brings GitHub to your finger tips in a sleek and efficient design.

Follow the project on twitter: @CodeHubApp
Feature requests can be made on GitHub
Additional information can be found on the project's webpage

Screenshots

Repository View Slideout Repositories Issues Gists

Contributing

Contributions are absolutely welcome! The project is built on Xamarin, a free C# framework for iOS applications. You'll need to download this to build the project.

  1. Fork it!
  2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
  3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
  4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
  5. Submit a pull request :D

Troubleshooting

I Can't Find My Organization

CodeHub can…

CodeHub

4. Aspnetcore

GitHub logo dotnet / aspnetcore

ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

ASP.NET Core

.NET Foundation MIT License Help Wanted Good First Issues Discord

ASP.NET Core is an open-source and cross-platform framework for building modern cloud-based internet-connected applications, such as web apps, IoT apps, and mobile backends. ASP.NET Core apps run on .NET, a free, cross-platform, and open-source application runtime. It was architected to provide an optimized development framework for apps that are deployed to the cloud or run on-premises. It consists of modular components with minimal overhead, so you retain flexibility while constructing your solutions. You can develop and run your ASP.NET Core apps cross-platform on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Learn more about ASP.NET Core.

Get started

Follow the Getting Started instructions.

Also check out the .NET Homepage for released versions of .NET, getting started guides, and learning resources.

See the Triage Process document for more information on how we handle incoming issues.

How to engage, contribute, and give feedback

Some of the best ways to contribute are to…

5. Wox

GitHub logo Wox-launcher / Wox

A cross-platform launcher that simply works

Wox

Build status GitHub release (latest by date) Github All Releases Crowdin

Wox is a cross-platform launcher that simply works. It's an alternative to Alfred and Launchy

Wox v2 is under active development, if you use windows, please check v1 release

Snapshot

Features

  • Search for applications, folders, files and more
  • Plenty of Plugins and AI Themes
  • Single executable file, no installation required
  • Develop plugins with Javascript, Python, C#

Install and Run

  • Manual

Download from releases and run the single executable file

  • Homebrew

brew tap wox-launcher/wox
brew install wox --no-quarantine

Usage

  • Launch: Alt/Command+Space
  • Cancel/Return: Esc

Contribution

  • First and most importantly, star it!
  • Send PR
  • Join discussions

Documentation

Project Activity

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6. DnSpy

GitHub logo dnSpy / dnSpy

.NET debugger and assembly editor

dnSpy - Latest release

dnSpy is a debugger and .NET assembly editor. You can use it to edit and debug assemblies even if you don't have any source code available. Main features:

  • Debug .NET and Unity assemblies
  • Edit .NET and Unity assemblies
  • Light and dark themes

See below for more features

debug-animated

edit-code-animated

Binaries

https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy/releases

Building

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy.git
cd dnSpy
# or dotnet build
./build.ps1 -NoMsbuild
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To debug Unity games, you need this repo too: https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy-Unity-mono (or get the binaries from https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy/releases/unity)

Debugger

  • Debug .NET Framework, .NET and Unity game assemblies, no source code required
  • Set breakpoints and step into any assembly
  • Locals, watch, autos windows
  • Variables windows support saving variables (eg. decrypted byte arrays) to disk or view them in the hex editor (memory window)
  • Object IDs
  • Multiple processes can be debugged at the same time
  • Break on module load
  • Tracepoints and conditional breakpoints
  • Export/import…

7. V2rayN

GitHub logo 2dust / v2rayN

A GUI client for Windows, support Xray core and v2fly core and others




8. EShopOnContainers

GitHub logo dotnet-architecture / eShopOnContainers

Cross-platform .NET sample microservices and container based application that runs on Linux Windows and macOS. Powered by .NET 7, Docker Containers and Azure Kubernetes Services. Supports Visual Studio, VS for Mac and CLI based environments with Docker CLI, dotnet CLI, VS Code or any other code editor. Moved to https://github.com/dotnet/eShop.

eShop has moved!

As of November 2023, the eShop sample application has been updated and moved to https://github.com/dotnet/eShop. Active development will continue there.

This repo is now a read-only archive. If you'd like to refer to the old code that was in here, you can find it in the "dev" branch.




9. WaveFunctionCollapse

GitHub logo mxgmn / WaveFunctionCollapse

Bitmap & tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics

WaveFunctionCollapse

This program generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input bitmap.

main collage

main gif

Local similarity means that

  • (C1) The output should contain only those NxN patterns of pixels that are present in the input.
  • (Weak C2) Distribution of NxN patterns in the input should be similar to the distribution of NxN patterns over a sufficiently large number of outputs. In other words, probability to meet a particular pattern in the output should be close to the density of such patterns in the input.

In the examples a typical value of N is 3.

local similarity

WFC initializes output bitmap in a completely unobserved state, where each pixel value is in superposition of colors of the input bitmap (so if the input was black & white then the unobserved states are shown in different shades of grey). The coefficients in these superpositions are real numbers, not complex numbers, so it doesn't do the…

10. ShareX

GitHub logo ShareX / ShareX

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.





Trend analysis

Among these ten projects:

  • ➀ Shadowsocks-windows & ➆ V2rayN are networking utilities, which are popular because of a large population of users. Truly useful tools rock!
  • ➈ WaveFunctionCollapse & ➉ShareX are image/image capture utilities. Truly useful tools rock!
  • ➄ Wox is a desktop utility tool to boost your performance to access your apps. Truly useful tools rock!
  • ➁ PowerShell, ➂CodeHub, ➃ Aspnetcore, ➅ DnSpy & ➇ EShopOnContainers are powerful tools for software developers and architects. Power developer tools rock!

Indications

  • The C# language is especially useful for developing utility tools.
  • C# remain a popular language for developers. With the new introduction of .Net 5, it is anticipated that C# will gain more popularity in cross-platform app development, including but not limited in Mobile, Game, Desktop, Web and other development areas.

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