Comments on: .NET Developers: Recommend Your Favorite Open-Source Projects Here

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:44:11 +0000

Thanks — Apache and Firefox are not .NET tools, though, so they won’t really work for this.

By: GBH

GBH — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:38:41 +0000

1. Subversion/TortiseSVN
2. Apache - Usefull for so much more than just hosting websites
3. log4net
4. Lucene.NET - Speed kills!
5. Subsonic
6. Postgresql - best open source database server
7. Firefox

Please don’t pick Sandcastle - it sucks and contributed to the demise of NDoc.

By: Robert S. Robbins

Robert S. Robbins — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:56:36 +0000

JSON Viewer

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:30:42 +0000

Esper is an event stream processing system. Think of it as the ability to create a query and be notified when new events satify the query in realtime. Aside from simple patterns, it can do complex and temporal pattern matching. — http://esper.codehaus.org

LinFu is a framework by Philip Laureano … it creates a very simple interface for a number of advanced concepts like interception, aspect weaving, and dynamic object modeling. It’s a very nice framework that drops nicely into most projects. His framework is in pieces on CodeProject and/or his blog.

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:59:33 +0000

What’s Nesper? What’s LinFu?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:01:07 +0000

log4net
Ghostdoc — thank you Roland
NUnit
Sandcastle
DB4O
LinFu
Nesper –> It’ll be cooler when it supports LINQ

Shame we cant add reflector in here, but sadly its not open source.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:46:12 +0000

I suggest

jayrock -> Jayrock is an open source project to bring JSON and JSON-RPC to .NET

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:20:45 +0000

Thanks, everybody, for your valuable recommendations. There is a lot of great information here.

By the way, no need to repeat a recommendation here if it’s already been mentioned elsewhere in the comments. I’ll take a look at everything, but in the end I’m going to make random and subjective choices for what to include in the talk based on whether it seems appropriate (and whether I can work up a demo for it over the next few weeks).

By: Andy Hock

Andy Hock — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:54:14 +0000

I’ll second:

CruiseControl.NET
NMock
NUnit
NAnt (though Microsoft rained on that parade)
DotNetNuke (it’s interesting that only one other comment shared DNN. You can’t argue w/600K users, VB.NET or otherwise)
JQuery

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:58:31 +0000

NLog - http://www.nlog-project.org/
MyGeneration - http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com/portal/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx
Paint.NET
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/
TortoiseSVN - http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
csvreader - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/CsvReader.aspx