# Welcome to the .NET Foundation

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We foster open development, collaboration and community engagement on the .NET platform. The .NET Foundation is the steward of a growing collection of open source technologies for .NET, Microsoft’s comprehensive development framework.

Please visit [dotnetfoundation.org](https://dotnetfoundation.org) for more information.

## .NET Foundation Projects on GitHub

There are many projects under the stewardship of the .NET Foundation. The [full list of projects](https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects?type=project) is provided on the .NET Foundation site. The projects on GitHub are listed below, categorized by contributing company or individual.

**AngleSharp**

- [AngleSharp](https://github.com/AngleSharp/AngleSharp)
- [(and more)](https://github.com/AngleSharp)

**App vNext**

- [Polly](https://github.com/App-vNext/Polly)

**AutoMapper**

- [AutoMapper](https://github.com/automapper/automapper)

**BenchmarkDotNet**

- [BenchmarkDotNet](https://github.com/dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet)

**Brian Lagunas & Brian Noyes**

- [Prism](https://github.com/PrismLibrary)

**Cake**

- [Cake](https://github.com/cake-build/cake)
- [(and more)](https://github.com/cake-build)

**Cameron Taggart**

- [SourceLink](https://github.com/ctaggart/SourceLink)

**Chemistry Add-In for Word**

- [Chem4Word](https://github.com/Chem4Word)

**Couchbase**

- [Couchbase Lite for .NET](https://github.com/couchbaselabs/couchbase-lite-net)

**Dominick Baier & Brock Allen**

- [IdentityServer](https://github.com/identityserver)

**DNN Platform**
  - [Platform Core](https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform)
  - [Admin Experience Library](https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.AdminExperience.Library)
  - [Admin Experience Extensions](https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.AdminExperience.Extensions)
  - [Edit Bar](https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.EditBar)
  - [React Common Library](https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.React.Common)

**DotVVM**
- [DotVVM](https://github.com/riganti/dotvvm)
- [DotVVM Docs](https://github.com/riganti/dotvvm-docs)
- [DotVVM Contrib](https://github.com/riganti/dotvvm-contrib)

**Force.com**

- [Force.com Toolkit for .NET](https://github.com/developerforce/Force.com-Toolkit-for-NET)

**Jb Evain**

- [Mono.Cecil](https://github.com/jbevain/cecil)

**Microsoft**

- [.NET Core](https://dotnet.github.io/)
  - [.NET Core CLR](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr)
  - [.NET Core Framework](https://github.com/dotnet/corefx)
- [.NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn")](https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn)
- [.NET Micro Framework](https://github.com/NETMF/netmf-interpreter)
- [ASP.NET Core](https://github.com/aspnet/home)
- [ASP.NET SignalR](https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR)
- [Azure SDK for .NET](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net)
- [Kudu](https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu)
- [ML.NET](https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning)
- [MS Build](https://github.com/microsoft/msbuild)
- [Open Live Writer](http://openlivewriter.org)
- [Open Office SDK](https://github.com/officedev/open-xml-sdk)
- [Reactive Extensions for .NET](https://github.com/reactive-extensions/rx.net)
- [UWP Community Toolkit](https://github.com/Microsoft/UWPCommunityToolkit)
- [WCF](https://github.com/dotnet/wcf)
- [Windows Template Studio](https://github.com/Microsoft/WindowsTemplateStudio/)
- [WorldWideTelescope](https://github.com/WorldWideTelescope)

**Newtonsoft**

- [Newtonsoft.Json](https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json)
- [Newtonsoft.Json.Bson](https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json.Bson)

**Mono Project**

- [System.Drawing](https://github.com/mono/mono/tree/master/mcs/class/System.Drawing)

**Nancy**

- [Nancy](https://github.com/NancyFx)

**Orchard**

- [Orchard CMS](https://github.com/OrchardCMS/Orchard)

**Peachpie Compiler Platform**

- [Peachpie](https://github.com/peachpiecompiler/peachpie)

**Pivotal**

- [Steeltoe](https://steeltoe.io)

**Protobuild**

- [Protobuild](https://github.com/Protobuild/Protobuild)
- [Protobuild Manager](https://github.com/Protobuild/Protobuild.Manager)
- [(and more)](https://github.com/Protobuild/)

**ReactiveUI**

- [ReactiveUI](https://github.com/reactiveui/ReactiveUI)
- [Splat](https://github.com/reactiveui/Splat)
- [Akavache](https://github.com/reactiveui/Akavache)
- [Refit](https://github.com/reactiveui/refit)
- [Punchclock](https://github.com/reactiveui/punchclock)
- [Fusillade](https://github.com/reactiveui/Fusillade)

**Rock Solid Knowledge**

- [IdentityManager](https://github.com/IdentityManager/IdentityManager2)

**Telerik**

- [Telerik UI for UWP](https://github.com/telerik/UI-For-UWP/)

**Umbraco**

- [Umbraco CMS](https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS)

**WiX Toolset**

- [WiX Toolset](https://github.com/wixtoolset)

**Xamarin**

- [MailKit](https://github.com/jstedfast/MailKit)
- [MimeKit](https://github.com/jstedfast/MimeKit)
- [Xamarin.Auth](https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Auth)
- [Xamarin.Mobile](https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Mobile)

**xUnit.net**

- [xUnit.net](https://github.com/xunit/xunit)

## .NET Foundation Community Resources

- [.NET Foundation Website](https://dotnetfoundation.org)
- [.NET Foundation Forums](https://forums.dotnetfoundation.org/)
- [.NET Foundation Blog](https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog)