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.NET documentation generator alternatives to Sandcastle?
After searching and trying for a while, I found a perfect alternative to it.
DocFX
Main Features:
Website from Source Code
DocFX generates API documentation directly from .NET source code. You can ...
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C# library for parsing HTML?
AngleSharp:
Actively developed/maintained
Built-in support for CSS selectors
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Obfuscator for .NET Core
Obfuscar is a .NET assemblies obfuscation tool that should do it without problems. You can install it from Nuget (it's available here).
Hope it helps!!
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Looking for a Geometry Manipulation library
Have a look at my Clipper library.
Open source freeware library coded in C# (and C++ and Delphi) with very permissive Boost license (which allows use in commercial apps without charge). Can be ...
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Tool for inspecting Windows Forms applications
As free application I'll recommend the Microsoft UI Automation toolset from the Windows SDK.
With UI Inspect you can click an UI element then see its name and a full list of other information, and ...
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What NoSQL solutions are out there for .NET?
I haven't gotten any answers (or even any views of my question), so here's my very non-authoritative answer, based on some googling and some testing of one of the programs.
There's a comprehensive ...
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C# library for parsing HTML?
CefSharp
Why?
Actively maintained
You get the might of Chromium
Let's you run any JavaScript. It's much easier to develop parsing this way. You go to your Chromium-based browser console and develop ...
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Any good open source charting for .NET?
Syncfusion provides a Chart library for all .NET platforms. While not open source, the libraries are available under a community license as well (see details below).
Essential Chart for WPF
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Obfuscator for .NET Core
if you have not found the answer I can advise to try ArmDot. It uses virtual machine to obfuscate the code.
Good luck!
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Soft for making license keys
If you feel that you can write a key generation program by yourself, just do it!
There may be ready-made parts of the program, some blanks for generating keys on GitHub.
Also, you can try ready-made ...
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Good and free unit-testing alternatives to Telerik's JustMock
A completely free possibility is Prig, which is even open-source. It may be a bit less user-friendly than the commercial alternatives, but seems to work quite well. Note that if the signature of the ...
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.NET library to convert Microsoft Office docs to PDF
The LEADTOOLS Documents SDK has the ability to convert all of the Microsoft Office formats and output as PDF in .NET.
Here is a list of all of the support formats that the SDK can convert from and to:...
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.NET library for running an embedded/selfhosted light web server from C# with SSL/TLS HTTPS
Try using .Net Core with Kestral webserver.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/servers/kestrel?view=aspnetcore-2.1
SSL Options
options.Configure(context.Configuration....
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.NET library for running an embedded/selfhosted light web server from C# with SSL/TLS HTTPS
As well as the Kestral solution Todd provided (thanks!), I discovered a third party library called Ceen.Httpd - this is a very lightweight HTTPd server that I was able to just drop into my project ...
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Looking for a Geometry Manipulation library
You should give NetTopologySuite a look. We have been using it for 2D geometry operations. It is pure C# and has a lot of functionality, too big to list here. You might have a little bit of trouble ...
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.net - Health Monitoring / Logging Server - Open Source / Freemium
I'd check out New Relic which can monitor performance of web sites, breaking down response times by:-
client rendering
network latency
clr processing
and SQL queries.
It supports ASP.NET and PHP. ...
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Free tool that can split PDFs and can be used over an API in .NET (not command line)
Essential PDF can be used to split PDFs : C# sample. The sample linked to here is ASP.NET based, but the library can be used from Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET Webforms, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WinRT, ...
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Standalone object browser for C#
As Alex K mentioned in the comments above.
ILSpy is a good choice in this case.
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Standalone object browser for C#
I'm using Jetbrains dotPeek. It's free and meanwhile has more features than ILSpy, it can e.g. make use of PDB files and Microsoft source servers and is extensible via plugins.
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High performance C# library for converting Bitmaps to PNGs
You could try net-vips, the C# binding for libvips. It's a lazy, streaming, demand-driven image processing library, so it can do operations like this without needing to load the whole image. NetVips ...
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A flexible, scalable Network Monitoring System with .NET support needed
Check Pandora FMS, I did it and it perfectly met my needs.
You can autodiscover every single piece of your network, however, take care, using autodiscover features in production can find thousands of ...
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A flexible, scalable Network Monitoring System with .NET support needed
I've used Pandora FMS, the software that Javier recommends, and it completely fits your needs. And it's not limited to Windows which is good because, as Steve Barnes say, networks are cross platform ...
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A flexible, scalable Network Monitoring System with .NET support needed
Check iReveal, a combination of NMS and SIEM which I think can completely cater to all your needs.
SNMP Support with Auto Discovery
iReveal performs Auto Discovery of hosts in a single subnet or in ...
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Library to compare images
You could check out the Correlation command from the LEADTOOLS Imaging SDK.
Here is what the Image processing command does:
This command compares the correlation image (or part of the correlation ...
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Any good open source charting for .NET?
So, even though this is quite an old question, it has popped up on recent google searches so I am posting this here so that it may help anyone still searching for something similar!
A good option is ...
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.net framework working version for windows 7 pro build 7600
Build 7600 means that it's the final version of Windows 7, thus it should be compatible with anything supporting Windows 7 SP1.
The "Professional" edition aspect of your OS won't affect compatibility ...
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.net framework working version for windows 7 pro build 7600
As I understand it, Windows 7 Build 7600 comes with framework 3.5 but you can download and install Framework 4 from
https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=17718
The next version up ...
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.NET documentation generator alternatives to Sandcastle?
Sandcastle Help File Builder supports .NET Core projects as of the v2017.5.15.0 release.
Release notes for version
2017.5.15.0
...
A new cross-platform reflection data set file (...
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.NET Application monitoring tools
@Puneet, with the scant details relating to your specific technology stack and architecture it is difficult to give you a precise answer.
But, on a high-level, I suggest you take a serious look at ...
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Which .NET obfuscator to use for obfuscating the code with same results each time?
My company's Thicket C# and VB.net obfuscators will generate new random names if you obfuscate everthing at once. If you obfuscate incrementally, then there isn't any choice, you have to preserve the ...
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