Essential .NET Libraries I Use
| Library | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection | I’m not going to try fit an explanation in here, but simply put, passing functions to functions. Dependency Injection is Loose Coupling | Microsoft Docs |
| Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration | Well, where would we be without configuration, settings, environment variables, etc? | Configuration Providers in .NET, Configuration in ASP.NET Core |
| Microsoft.Extensions.Logging | After years and years of everyone and their neighbour creating their own wrappers of other logging libraries and abstractions of ILogger and ILoggerFactory there is finally a “single source of truth”. |
Logging in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core |
| Serilog | There have been and are several popular logging libraries for .NET. In my opinion, Serilog is easily the best one by a margin because of it’s Semantic Logging. | Serilog |
| Serilog.Extensions.Logging | Speaking of Microsoft.Extensions.Logging and Serilog, this library ties the two together so you get the nice ILogger type injected into your constructors without it being a specific dependency from Serilog. |
Serilog provider for Microsoft.Extensions.Logging |
| CsvHelper | Of course, this one’s only useful if you’re software is processing CSV files. | CsvHelper |
| Stateless | A fantastic library for creating finite state machines. Can be used for everything from modelling UI’s to complex business processes. | FSM article |
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