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🔝Top 10 C# Projects on GitHub (Q1 2021) and the trend🔥🔥🔥

C# remains a popular programming language in 2021. As of April 2021, C# ranks №5 in Tiobe Index, following C, Java, Python and C++

Below are the top 10 C# Projects on GitHub as of April 2021.

Ranking (2021/04) Ranking (2020/12) Project Name Stars Forks
1 a PowerToys 52964 2876
2 1 Shadowsocks-windows 52032 16007
3 2 PowerShell 25683 4102
4 3 CodeHub 23230 631
5 4 Aspnetcore 21825 6221
6 5 Wox 19959 2157
7 7 V2rayN 19498 4271
8 6 DnSpy 17865 3116
9 8 EShopOnContainers 17260 7317
10 9 WaveFunctionCollapse 16059 820

a: Not sure

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

1. PowerToys

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows 10 experience for greater productivity. For more info on PowerToys overviews and guides, or any other tools and resources for Windows development environments, head over to docs.microsoft.com!

GitHub logo microsoft / PowerToys

Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

Microsoft PowerToys

Downloads & Release notes | Contributing to PowerToys | What's Happening | Roadmap

Build status

Architecture Master Stable Installer
x64 Build Status for Master Build Status for Stable Build Status for Installer

About

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows 10 experience for greater productivity. For more info on PowerToys overviews and guides, or any other tools and resources for Windows development environments, head over to docs.microsoft.com!

Installing and running Microsoft PowerToys

Requirements

  • Windows 10 v1903 (build 18362) or newer
    • ⚠️ PowerToys minimum version of Windows 10 is v1903 starting with the 0.37 release
  • Have .NET Core 3.1.13 Desktop Runtime. The installer should handle this but we want to directly make people aware.

Via GitHub with EXE [Recommended]

Stable version

Install from the Microsoft PowerToys GitHub

2. 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

Moved to https://github.com/Shadowsocks-NET/Shadowsocks.NET

[logo] Shadowsocks for Windows

Build Release

Important notice

This repository has been moved to Shadowsocks-NET/Shadowsocks.NET Because the owner of the Shadowsocks organization denied our request to transfer the repository, we had to create a new one Development will continue at the new repository.

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…

3. 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 Core 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 Core

Although this repository started as a fork of the Windows PowerShell code base, changes made in this repository do not make their way back to Windows PowerShell 5.1 automatically This also means that issues tracked here are only for PowerShell Core 6 and higher. Windows PowerShell specific issues should be opened on UserVoice.

New to PowerShell?

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

Get PowerShell

You can download and install a PowerShell…

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

4. 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

5. 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.

Apache-2.0 Licence Help Wanted Good First Issues Discord

ASP.NET Core

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 Core, 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 in the ASP.NET Core docs.

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

6. Wox

GitHub logo Wox-launcher / Wox

Launcher for Windows, an alternative to Alfred and Launchy.

WoX

Maintenance Build status GitHub release (latest by date) GitHub Release Date Github All Releases

WoX is a launcher for Windows that simply works. It's an alternative to Alfred and Launchy.

demo

Features

  • Search for everything—applications, UWP, folders, files and more.
  • Use pinyin to search for programs / 支持用 拼音 搜索程序
    • wyy / wangyiyun → 网易云音乐
  • Keyword plugin search g search_term
  • Search youtube, google, twitter and many more
  • Build custom themes at http://www.wox.one/theme/builder
  • Install plugins from http://www.wox.one/plugin
  • Portable mode
  • Auto-complete text suggestion
  • Highlighting of how results are matched during query search

Installation

  • Download from releases.

    • Option 1: download Wox-Full-Installer.*.exe, which include all dependency.
    • Option 2: download Wox.*.exe, which only include wox itself. You may install Everything and Python using below instruction.
  • Windows may complain about security due to code not being signed. This will be fixed later.

  • Requirements:

    • .NET >= 4.6.2 or Windows version >= 10 1607 (Anniversary Update)
    • [Optional] Integrate with everything
      1. Download .exe installer
      2. Use x64 if your…

7. 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…

8. V2rayN




9. 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 5, 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.

eShop logo

.NET Microservices Sample Reference Application

Sample .NET Core reference application, powered by Microsoft, based on a simplified microservices architecture and Docker containers.

Build Status (GitHub Actions)

Image Status Image Status
Web Status Web Status Shopping Aggregator (Web) Web Shopping Aggregator
Basket API Basket API Shopping Aggregator (Mobile) Mobile Shopping Aggregator
Catalog API Catalog API Web Client (MVC) WebMVC Client
Identity API Identity API Web Client (SPA) WebSPA Client
Ordering API Ordering API Webhooks Client Webhooks demo client
Payment API Payment API Ordering SignalR Ordering SignalR

Dev branch contains the latest beta code and their images are tagged with :linux-dev in our Docker Hub

Getting Started

Make sure you have installed and configured docker in your environment. After that, you can run the below commands from the /src/ directory and get started with the eShopOnContainers immediately.

docker-compose build
docker-compose up
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You should be able to browse different components of the application by using the below URLs :

Web Status : http://host.docker.internal:5107/
Web MVC :  http://host.docker.internal:5100/
Web SPA :  http://host.docker.internal:5104/

Note: If you are running…

10. 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) Each NxN pattern of pixels in the output should occur at least once 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…

11. ShareX (No. 10 in Dec 2020)

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

  • Most of the rankings remain the same as those of Dec 2020.
  • The 1st place was replaced by PowerToys, which contains below popular tools:

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

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Aaron Junker

It's so awesome to see PowerToys on the 1st place