[rant] Opensource spirit in .NET world

Hitesh — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:55:34 +0000

Did not want to post a rant, especially when I haven’t yet crystallized my thoughts.

Background:
My previous post was about a project I came across – hornget. I wanted to help because I liked their ideas. I offered to manage the SupportedPackages page for them by automating the process. Or to share the script for the same.

Reason for rant:
Guess what was the reply?

Nothing at all. The powers that be, simply banned me from the hornget-dev group. I am flabbergasted. I am not sure what brought out this behavior.

If anyone from hornget dev team reads this, could you please spare a minute to explain why is a volunteer treated like this?

Opensource .NET Projects (ALT.NET)

Hitesh — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:59:51 +0000

I recently stumbled across Hornget, which plans to be the maven of .NET world. I found their design philosophy interesting, but haven’t yet got a chance to evaluate the project itself.

But what I liked is they have cherry picked very good .NET software building blocks. Here is a list of projects supported by hornget. Even if you do not end up using hornget, this can still act as a good reference.

Name (hyperlinked)	Category	Forum Link
Phantom	Build Engine	forum
A .NET build system written in C# and Boo
Horn	Builder	forum
A .NET build and dependency manager
N2CMS	CMS	forum
N2 is a lightweight CMS framework to help you build great web sites that anyone can update
MassTransit	ESB	forum
MassTransit is lean service bus implementation for building loosely coupled applications using the .NET framework
Magnum	Framework	forum
For the larger than average developer
NCommon	Framework	forum
NCommon is a library that contains implementations of commonly used design patterns when developing applications.
Rhino Tools	Framework	forum
Rhino tools including Rhino Mocks, Rhino ETL, Binsor etc.
Sharp Architecture	Framework	forum
This is a solid architectural foundation for rapidly building maintainable web applications leveraging the ASP.NET MVC framework with NHibernate.
Topshelf	Framework	forum
A simple micro-framework for building and testing winservice type code
Castle	IoC	forum
Castle is an open source project for .net that aspires to simplify the development of enterprise and web applications.
LinFu	IoC	forum
The LinFu Framework is a set of libraries that extend the CLR.
Ninject	IoC	forum
Ninject: Open source dependency injector for .NET
Ninject	IoC	forum
Ninject: Lightning-fast dependency injection for .NET
Boo	Language	forum
A wrist friendly language for the CLI
Log4Net	Logger	forum
log4net is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets
AutoMapper	Mapper	forum
A convention-based object-object mapper in .NET.
Moq	Mock	forum
The simplest mocking library for .NET 3.5 and Silverlight with deep C# 3.0 integration.
DnDns	Network	forum
A DNS protocol library
NHibernate	ORM	forum
NHibernate handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database.
Fluent NHibernate	ORM	forum
Fluent, XML-less, compile safe, automated, testable mappings for NHibernate
Subsonic	ORM	forum
SubSonic is A Super High-fidelity Batman Utility Belt that works up your Data Access (using Linq in 3.0), throws in some much-needed utility functions, and generally speeds along your dev cycle.
MVCContrib	Web	forum
This project adds additional functionality on top of the ASP.NET MVC Framework.
Hasic	Web	forum
A view engine for ASP.NET MVC that uses VB.NET XML literals.
JSON.NET	Web	forum
A .NET serialization for converting objects to JSON and vice versa
Caliburn	WPF	forum
Designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight applications, Caliburn implements a variety of UI patterns for solving real-world problems. Patterns that are enabled by the framework include MVC, MVP, Presentation Model (MVVM), Commands and Application Controller.

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[rant] Opensource spirit in .NET world

Opensource .NET Projects (ALT.NET)