Build Tools

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows (like apt-get but for Windows). It was designed to be a decentralized framework for quickly installing applications and tools that you need. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure currently using PowerShell as its focus for delivering packages from the distros to your door, err computer. Chocolatey is brought to you by the work and inspiration of the community, the work and thankless nights of the [Chocolatey Team](https://github.com/orgs/chocolatey/people), with Rob heading up the direction. You can host your own sources and add them to Chocolatey, you can extend Chocolatey's capabilities, and folks, it's only going to get better. ### Information - [Chocolatey Website and Community Package Repository](https://community.chocolatey.org) - [Mailing List](http://groups.google.com/group/chocolatey) / [Release Announcements Only Mailing List](https://groups.google.com/group/chocolatey-announce) / [Build Status Mailing List](http://groups.google.com/group/chocolatey-build-status) - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/chocolateynuget) / [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ChocolateySoftware) / [GitHub](https://github.com/chocolatey) - [Blog](https://blog.chocolatey.org/) / [Newsletter](https://chocolatey.us8.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=86a6d80146a0da7f2223712e4&id=73b018498d) - [Documentation](https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/) / [Support](https://chocolatey.org/support) ### Commands There are quite a few commands you can call - you should check out the [command reference](https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/commands). Here are the most common: - Help - choco -? or choco command -? - Search - choco search something - List - choco list -lo - Config - choco config list - Install - choco install baretail - Pin - choco pin windirstat - Outdated - choco outdated - Upgrade - choco upgrade baretail - Uninstall - choco uninstall baretail #### Alternative installation sources: - Install ruby gem - choco install compass -source ruby - Install python egg - choco install sphynx -source python - Install windows feature - choco install IIS -source windowsfeatures #### More For more advanced commands and switches, use `choco -?` or `choco command -h`. You can also look at the [command reference](https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/commands), including how you can force a package to install the x86 version of a package. ### Create Packages? We have some great guidance on how to do that. Where? I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with socks! [Docs!](https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/create/create-packages) In that mess there is a link to the [PowerShell Chocolatey module reference](https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/create/functions).

psake is a build automation tool written in PowerShell. It avoids the angle-bracket tax associated with executable XML by leveraging the PowerShell syntax in your build scripts. psake has a syntax inspired by rake (aka make in Ruby) and bake (aka make in Boo), but is easier to script because it leverages your existent command-line knowledge. psake is pronounced sake - as in Japanese rice wine. It does NOT rhyme with make, bake, or rake. You can also install with chocolatey (http://nuget.org/List/Packages/chocolatey) and have global psake.

Source code generation tool that hosts custom generators (AKA Plugins). This package contains MSBuild targets that run the tool during a build, before compilation. See project site for details.

FAKE - F# Make - is a build automation tool for .NET. Tasks and dependencies are specified in a DSL which is integrated in F#.

Open source .NET DllExport with .NET Core support (aka 3F/DllExport aka DllExport.bat) https://github.com/3F/DllExport 🚀 Quick start: https://github.com/3F/DllExport/wiki/Quick-start 🔖 Examples. Unmanaged C++ / C# / Java: https://youtu.be/QXMj9-8XJnY 🧪 Demo: https://github.com/3F/Examples/tree/master/DllExport/BasicExport * https://github.com/3F/DllExport/tree/master/src/DllExport/assets https://github.com/3F/DllExport/tree/master/src/DllExport/UnitedTest === DllExport -dxp-version 1.8.0 https://3F.github.io/DllExport/releases/latest/manager/ === gnt DllExport/1.8.0 https://github.com/3F/GetNuTool .NET DllExport 1.8.0+f4deb0e Configuration: PublicRelease Release type: Build number: 17264 toolset: net40 MetaCor: netstandard1.1 MetaLib: net20 hMSBuild core: 2.4.1 :: generated by a vsSolutionBuildEvent 1.16.1.32816

RIAServices.Server provides the System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Hosting and System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Server assemblies in place of the GAC references, making bin-deployment easier. The web.config.transform adds the necessary configSections, HTTP modules, and system.serviceModel elements to make your Domain Services available at runtime. The package also includes a targets file and tools assembly that provides build-time validation of your DomainService classes. This package can be used instead of going through the Add New Domain Service wizard to prime your ASP.NET web application with the configuration necessary to utilize WCF RIA Services on the Server. KNOWN ISSUE Some users have experienced duplicate web.config entries getting created as a result of installing this package. To resolve this issue, simply eliminate one of the duplicate entries -- they vary only by character case.

.NET Core tools for building agent services

This package enables you to transform your app.config or any other XML file based on the build configuration. It also adds additional tooling to help you create XML transforms.. Written by: Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, Chuck England and Bill Hiebert

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HiQPdf Library for .NET offers you a modern, simple, fast, flexible and powerful tool to create complex and stylish PDF documents in .NET applications with just a few lines of C# code. This library is compatible with .NET Framework for Windows 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) operating systems. The NuGet package optimized for x64 is HiQPdf.x64 . The NuGet packages for .NET Core and .NET Standard are HiQPdf.NetCore and HiQPdf.NetCore.x64 . For Linux, MacOS, Azure App Service, Xamarin, UWP or any other platform for .NET you can use the multi-platform HiQPdf.Client NuGet package. HiQPdf Library for .NET has builds for .NET Framework 4.0 and .NET Framework 2.0 and its compatibility list includes: * .NET Framework 4.8.1, 4.7.2, 4.6.1, 4.0, 3.5, 2.0 and the later versions * Windows 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) operating systems * Azure Cloud Services, Azure Virtual Machines * Web, Desktop and Console applications for .NET Framework HiQPdf Library for .NET offers you the fastest and the most precise HTML to PDF conversion technology. You can convert HTML with CSS3, JavaScript, SVG or Web Fonts to PDF preserving the exact content and style. Library Features: * HTML to PDF to quickly create PDF documents from HTML * HTML to Image to take snapshots of web pages * HTML to SVG to create high quality vector images from HTML * PDF to Image to rasterize PDF document pages to images * PDF to HTML to create HTML documents from PDF pages * PDF to Text to extract text from PDF documents * Search text in PDF documents * Extract images from PDF documents * Create PDF documents with text, HTML, SVG, images and graphics * Create encrypted, password protected, digitally signed PDF documents * Create PDF documents with forms, text notes, links, JavaScript actions * Merge multiple PDF documents into a single one * Stamp PDF with HTML, text and images

Automatically transforms on build all files with a build action of `None/Content` that have the `TextTemplatingFileGenerator` custom tools associated, without requiring the installation of any Visual Studio SDK.

Fabric provides developers with the tools they need to build the best apps. Developed and maintained by Twitter and the team that built Crashlytics, Fabric provides an easy way to manage all your SDKs so that you’ll never have to worry about tedious configurations or juggling different accounts. We let you get right into coding and building the next big app.

CoffeeScript compiler for Windows. With a HttpHandler, command-line tool and a .NET library. For ASP.NET projects: After installing this package, all .coffee files will be compiled on the fly by the HttpHandler and returned as JavaScript. Note: For production usage, it is recommened to compile all CoffeeScript files from a build system using the command-line compiler.

BizArk Core provides a collection of tools to make building line-of-business applications easier. See the project WIKI on Git for full list of features and documentation.

NetSpell's suggestions for a misspelled word are generated using phonetic (sounds like) matching and ranked by a typographical (looks like) score. NetSpell supports multiple languages and the dictionaries are based on the OpenOffice Affix compression format. NetSpell also supports user added words, automatic creation of user dictionaries, includes a dictionary build tool to build custom dictionaries.

OpenRiaServices.Signed.Server provides the OpenRiaServices.DomainServices.Hosting and OpenRiaServices.DomainServices.Server assemblies. The web.config.transform adds the necessary configSections, HTTP modules, and system.serviceModel elements to make your Domain Services available at runtime. The package also includes a targets file and tools assembly that provides build-time validation of your DomainService classes.

The package is a collection of libraries that can be used for literate programming with F# (great for building documentation) and for generating library documentation from inline code comments. The key componments are Markdown parser, tools for formatting F# code snippets, including tool tip type information and a tool for generating documentation from library metadata.

The OpenDocx fork of Open-Xml-Power-Tools. Closely based on maintainer EricWhite's vNext fork (as of June 2021), but includes only .NET Standard 2.0 build target for use in cross-platform scenarios. This version also includes a minor but experimental extension that facilitates document composition, as well as a handful of bugfixes.

Botsharp.NLP is a set of tools for building C# programs to work with human language data. It can be used in common tasks like POS, NER and text classification in the NLP or NLU field. BotSharp.NLP has implemented below machine learning algorithms: Conditional Random Field (CRF) Support Vector Machine (SVM) N-Gram Tagger Regex Tokenizer Naive Bayes Classifier

Core utilities and tools for building Freya machines

LeadPipe.Net.Data provides essential data tier objects including an implementation of a repository, the query object pattern, and unit of work pattern. You can use this package to build your own data implementation, but you might also be interested in the pre-built data implementations such as LeadPipe.Net.Data.NHibernate. LeadPipe.Net is an open source collection of useful tools for .NET development. Read more about the LeadPipe.Net library at http://github.com/LeadPipeSoftware/LeadPipe.Net

A PowerShell task runner based on Invoke-Build. Invoke-Build is a build and test automation tool which invokes tasks defined in PowerShell scripts. It is similar to psake but arguably easier to use and more powerful. Removes the boilerplate code from your build scripts and supports a convention-based plugin model for extending functionality with common tasks and includes some useful functions which you can use to help create your own custom tasks.

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows (like apt-get but for Windows). It was designed to be a decentralized framework for quickly installing applications and tools that you need. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure currently using PowerShell as its focus for delivering packages from the distros to your door, err computer. Chocolatey is brought to you by the work and inspiration of the community, the work and thankless nights of the Chocolatey Team (https://github.com/orgs/chocolatey/people), with Rob heading up the direction. You can host your own sources and add them to Chocolatey, you can extend Chocolatey's capabilities, and folks, it's only going to get better. This is the Chocolatey Library (API / DLL) package which allows Chocolatey to be embedded in your application. ### Information - [Chocolatey Website and Community Package Repository](https://community.chocolatey.org) - [Mailing List](http://groups.google.com/group/chocolatey) / [Release Announcements Only Mailing List](https://groups.google.com/group/chocolatey-announce) / [Build Status Mailing List](http://groups.google.com/group/chocolatey-build-status) - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/chocolateynuget) / [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ChocolateySoftware) / [GitHub](https://github.com/chocolatey) - [Blog](https://blog.chocolatey.org/) / [Newsletter](https://chocolatey.us8.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=86a6d80146a0da7f2223712e4&id=73b018498d) - [Documentation](https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/) / [Support](https://chocolatey.org/support)

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CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. The suite of CMake tools were created by Kitware in response to the need for a powerful, cross-platform build environment for open-source projects such as ITK and VTK. CMake is part of Kitware’s collection of commercially supported open-source platforms for software development.

FAKE - F# Make - is a build automation tool for .NET. Tasks and dependencies are specified in a DSL which is integrated in F#. Extensions for IIS

DPB is a tool that allows developers to automatically generate project code. You can add annotations to the code templates, and use DPB to automatically filter or generate code to build a complete new project.

.NET Core tools for building agent services

FAKE - F# Make - is a build automation tool for .NET. Tasks and dependencies are specified in a DSL which is integrated in F#. This package bundles all extensions.

Cross-platform build automation system

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FAKE - F# Make - is a build automation tool for .NET. Tasks and dependencies are specified in a DSL which is integrated in F#. Extensions for FAKE Deploy

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This library provides XAML user controls and services to help developers build their app. It is a part of the Windows Community Toolkit. -AligmentGrid : Displays a Grid that helps align the controls. -FocusTrackerControl : The FocusTracker Control is a feature that can be used to display information about the current focused XAML element. -Themes : Provides the source path of the resource dictionaries for the FocusTracker.

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FAKE - F# Make - is a build automation tool for .NET. Tasks and dependencies are specified in a DSL which is integrated in F#. Extensions for SQL Server

FAKE - F# Make - is a build automation tool for .NET. Tasks and dependencies are specified in a DSL which is integrated in F#. Extensions for FluentMigrator

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SharpShell is a framework that lets you build Windows Shell Extensions using the .NET Framework. The SharpShell Tools are a set of tools for working with these extensions.

JetBrains Platform Build Tools :: Build Script Sources Compiler :: Interface

Command Line build tools for AvalonStudio.

JetBrains Platform Build Tools :: MSBuild Insertable Logger :: Version-Independent API Assembly

(MauiLinux is a fork of MAUI) .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. This package only contains the MSBuild tasks and other tooling. Please install the Microsoft.Maui.Controls package to start using .NET MAUI.

FAKE - F# Make - is a build automation tool for .NET. Tasks and dependencies are specified in a DSL which is integrated in F#.

Unit tests will often need to assert that a sizeable amount of data matches an expectation, and this is difficult with only the traditional style of assertion. You essentially have the choice of writing a long list of simple assertions, or concatenating the output into a string and using a single assert against that. However, when these assertions fail it can be very hard to determine in what ways the output differs from the expectation. One solution to this problem is a different workflow from traditional unit testing - instead of making a prediction in the code, and then checking the output against the prediction, what if you formatted the output and displayed it side by side with the last "approved" version. This is what TestConsole.Core provides. On a build server, when the test result does not match the default behaviour is just to fail the test, whereas on a development PC you can configure the library to use an installed file compare utility to display the differences. If the differences are expected, you can copy the new result over to the approved version and the test will pass. TestConsole.Core inherits all of the formatting capabilities from the original TestConsole project, and adds test approval features. Users of ApprovalTests will recognise the workflow and the functionality, but at the time of publishing, ApprovalTests is full framework only, whereas TestConsole.Core is intended to allow testing in both full framework and .NET core test suites. I did not set out to build an alternative to ApprovalTests, but I need to be able to test netcoreapp code, and the conversion of TestConsole was not difficult. However, ApprovalTests did not support netstandard or netcoreapp test suites and I couldn't wait any longer, so I built the subset of ApprovalTests features that I needed into TestConsole.Core from scratch. As a result, the syntax is a little different to ApprovalTests, particularly where it relates to selecting a file compare tool, and also relating to what can be directly approved. The intention of the test approval features is to allow data formatted using the TestConsole Output object to be approved, and I've also extended it to handle any plain text.

FAKE - F# Make - is a build automation tool for .NET. Tasks and dependencies are specified in a DSL which is integrated in F#.

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Tools for building compilers, interpreters, and parsers in F#.

Source code generation tool that hosts custom generators (AKA Plugins). This package contains MSBuild targets that run the tool during a build, before compilation. See project site for details.

A tool to test that the source link enabled nupkg or pdb file work. It tests all source files listed in the pdb. You can also print diagnostic information for a pdb.