Most useful free .NET libraries?
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I have used a lot of free .NET libraries, some from Microsoft itself! Which ones have you found the most useful?
Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control
- Unity Framework - Microsoft
- StructureMap - Jeremy Miller
- Castle Windsor
- NInject
- Spring Framework
- Autofac
- Managed Extensibility Framework
Logging
- Logging Application Block - Microsoft
- Log4Net - Apache
- Error Logging Modules and Handlers(ELMAH)
- NLog
Compression
- SharpZipLib
- DotNetZip
- YUI Compressor (CSS and JS compression/minification)
- AjaxMinifier (in other downloads) (JS compression. Also includes MSBuild task)
Ajax
- Ajax Control Toolkit - Microsoft
- AJAXNet Pro
Data Mapper
ORM
Charting/Graphics
- Microsoft Chart Controls for ASP.NET 3.5 SP1
- Microsoft Chart Controls for Winforms
- ZedGraph Charting
- NPlot - Charting for ASP.NET and WinForms
PDF Creators/Generators
Unit Testing/Mocking
Automated Web Testing
URL Rewriting
- url rewriter
- UrlRewriting.Net
- Url Rewriter and Reverse Proxy - Managed Fusion
Controls
- Krypton - Free winform controls
- Source Grid - A Grid control
- Devexpress - free controls
Unclassified
- CSLA Framework - Business Objects Framework
- AForge.net - AI, computer vision, genetic algorithms, machine learning
- Enterprise Library 4.1 - Logging, Exception Management, Validation, Policy Injection
- File helpers library
- C5 Collections - Collections for .NET
- Quartz.NET - Enterprise Job Scheduler for .NET Platform
- MiscUtil - Utilities by Jon Skeet
- Lucene.net - Text indexing and searching
- Json.NET - Linq over JSON
- Flee - expression evaluator
- PostSharp - AOP
- IKVM - brings the extensive world of Java libraries to .NET.
Title of the question taken from here.
[EDIT]
Please provide links to these free libraries as well.
Once we have a huge list of this, it can be arranged in categories!
Please do not mention .NET Applications/EXEs here.
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