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Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
Default implementation of dependency injection for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.
Logging infrastructure default implementation for Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.
Provides high-performance and low-allocating types that serialize objects to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) text and deserialize JSON text to objects, with UTF-8 support built-in. Also provides types to read and write JSON text encoded as UTF-8, and to create an in-memory document object model (DOM), that is read-only, for random access of the JSON elements within a structured view of the data. The System.Text.Json library is built-in as part of the shared framework in .NET Runtime. The package can be installed when you need to use it in other target frameworks.
Provides the IAsyncEnumerable<T> and IAsyncDisposable interfaces and helper types for .NET Standard 2.0. This package is not required starting with .NET Standard 2.1 and .NET Core 3.0.
This is the implementation of the Azure Client Pipeline
Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
Provides access to GDI+ graphics functionality. Commonly Used Types: System.Drawing.Bitmap System.Drawing.BitmapData System.Drawing.Brush System.Drawing.Font System.Drawing.Graphics System.Drawing.Icon Since .NET 7, non-Windows platforms are not supported, even with the runtime configuration switch. See https://aka.ms/systemdrawingnonwindows for more information.
Provides access to Windows system event notifications. Commonly Used Types: Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents
A package containing thin abstractions for Microsoft.IdentityModel.
This package contains the binaries of the Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET (MSAL.NET). MSAL.NET makes it easy to obtain tokens from the Microsoft identity platform for developers (formerly Azure AD v2.0) signing-in users with work & school accounts, Microsoft personal accounts, and social identities via Azure AD B2C. These tokens provide access to Microsoft Cloud API and any other API secured by the Microsoft identity platform. This version supports adding authentication functionality to your .NET based clients - .NET, .NET Framework, .NET MAUI
Entity Framework Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. EF Core works with SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, SQLite, Azure Cosmos DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other databases through a provider plugin API. Commonly Used Types: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbContext Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbSet
The HttpClient factory is a pattern for configuring and retrieving named HttpClients in a composable way. The HttpClient factory provides extensibility to plug in DelegatingHandlers that address cross-cutting concerns such as service location, load balancing, and reliability. The default HttpClient factory provides built-in diagnostics and logging and manages the lifetimes of connections in a performant way. Commonly Used Types: System.Net.Http.IHttpClientFactory
Provides miscellaneous Windows-specific types Commonly Used Types: System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2UI System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509SelectionFlag
Provides the System.Diagnostics.EventLog class, which allows the applications to use the Windows event log service. Commonly Used Types: System.Diagnostics.EventLog
Provides support for PKCS and CMS algorithms. Commonly Used Types: System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs.EnvelopedCms
The Amazon Web Services SDK for .NET - Core Runtime
Provides APIs for authenticating to Microsoft Entra ID
Castle Core, including DynamicProxy, Logging Abstractions and DictionaryAdapter
A lightweight abstraction for a payload of bytes. Provides methods for converting between strings, streams, JSON, and bytes. Commonly Used Types: System.BinaryData
This package contains the public client (desktop) caching to Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET (MSAL.NET)
Provides types for passing data between producers and consumers. Commonly Used Types: System.Threading.Channel System.Threading.Channel<T>
Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express resilience and transient fault handling policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner.
.NET models with JSON and YAML writers for OpenAPI specification
Swagger Generator for APIs built on ASP.NET Core
Middleware to expose Swagger JSON endpoints from APIs built on ASP.NET Core
The current data provider for SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. This has replaced System.Data.SqlClient. These classes provide access to SQL and encapsulate database-specific protocols, including tabular data stream (TDS). Commonly Used Types: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlException Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlTransaction Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameterCollection Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlClientFactory When using NuGet 3.x this package requires at least version 3.4.
Provides classes that can read and write the ASN.1 BER, CER, and DER data formats.
Hosting and startup infrastructures for applications.
Provides classes to use caching facilities. Commonly Used Types: System.Runtime.Caching.CacheEntryChangeMonitor System.Runtime.Caching.CacheEntryRemovedArguments System.Runtime.Caching.CacheEntryUpdateArguments System.Runtime.Caching.CacheItem System.Runtime.Caching.CacheItemPolicy System.Runtime.Caching.ChangeMonitor System.Runtime.Caching.FileChangeMonitor System.Runtime.Caching.HostFileChangeMonitor System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache System.Runtime.Caching.ObjectCache