Some Of The Useful Nuget Packages For Dotnet Project

Now a days all the packages from microsoft also available on nuget. Just to remind that here I am providing some list of packages that are not standard package that comes with project as a default.

Also it is possible that I will keep update this post as I will find new packages that are useful.

Validation

Used for validation of object. This will be used to validate any type of object. It also supports various level of configuration.

• FluentValidation

  nuget.org/packages/FluentValidation nuget.org/packages/FluentValidation.AspNetC.. nuget.org/packages/FluentValidation.Depende..

Following two are type of validation but It is specially use for when you have to check parameter or argument of method.

• Ensure.That

  nuget.org/packages/Ensure.That/11.0.0-p3

• Guard.Net

  nuget.org/packages/Guard.Net

• NullGuard

  nuget.org/packages/NullGuard.Fody

Mapper

Mappper functionality is used to map object of one type to another type. This is specially used when object pass from one layer to another layer and you only want to expose object as DTO and not the actual business object.

• AutoMapper

  nuget.org/packages/automapper

• Mapster

  nuget.org/packages/Mapster nuget.org/packages/Mapster.EFCore nuget.org/packages/Mapster.Async nuget.org/packages/Mapster.DependencyInject.. nuget.org/packages/Mapster.Core

• TinyMapper

  nuget.org/packages/TinyMapper

UnitTesting

For mocking purpose following packages is being used.

• Moq

  nuget.org/packages/Moq

• Moq.AutoMock

  nuget.org/packages/Moq.AutoMock

• NSubstitute

  nuget.org/packages/NSubstitute

• FakeItEasy

  nuget.org/packages/FakeItEasy

• EFCore.TestSupport

  This package is supporting package and it support functionality to clear migration and apply migration. Also different DB as per different test. Using this it is possible to use actual DB for unittest. nuget.org/packages/EfCore.TestSupport

Domain Driven Design

• ValueOf

  nuget.org/packages/ValueOf

  This is used to create Value object with singleline of code and very useful.

CQRS (Command query responsibility segregation)

• MediatR

  nuget.org/packages/mediatr

  This is simple implementation of mediator pattern. It is very good for CQRS implementation and it is not heavy too.

Result Checking

While working with API, there is possibility to have multiple result possible. Like actual result or some kind of error or some other indication.

• OneOf

  nuget.org/packages/OneOf

  This is used when there is multiple result type possible but at a time there is only one result from type provided.

• FluentResults

  nuget.org/packages/FluentResults

  This is also used same purpose as OneOf. Checking success or failure and result type.

CommandLine Utility Building

To build the command line utility in more manageable way. It allows to add multiple option, easy to extend.

• Cocona

  nuget.org/packages/Cocona

  This is simple yet useful. Also its syntax is quite intuitive.

• System.CommandLine

  nuget.org/packages/System.CommandLine/2.0.0..

  This is still in preview but has rich set of functionality. For simple command it is not as intuitive as Cocona but it is still in beta so we can hope for good final release. It has many supported package as well.

Summary

There are many other package I will put over here. Also if you are using any package in any category ( category even not listed over here) then also put that in comment section.

Update 1 : 02-03-2022

• TinyMapper Added to the list for Mapper category.

Update 2: 15-03-2022

• Commandline tool building package added.