Useful C#/.NET tools and libraries

I think it would be useful to list a number of tools and libraries that I use when setting up new services as well as the reference documentation. This may get out of date soon however it will at least give me a reference point to revisit. Some "templates" I've created:

• AWS Lambda - .NET Console app

• AWS Lambda - .NET Web Api

• Shared services - Terraform

Logging

• Serilog

  • for json logs, it is particularly useful for logging services like AWS CloudWatch:

    • blog 1

    • blog series

  • .NET/C# request logging improvements

  • Serilog.Enrichers.Sensitive - some protection against PII

  • Destructurama.Attributed - a more powerful and flexible library, probably at a cost of runtime

HTTP

• .NET's HttpClient is quite sufficient

• Polly - HTTP Request retries

• Serilog HTTP request logging

  • It does require a few tweaks with ASP.NET Core HTTP logging

  • Refer to the above templates

Swagger/Open API

• Swashbuckle - getting started

• Swashbuckle GitHub

Database

Sometimes ORM (e.g. EF) isn't necessary, for mysql, the MySqlConnector seems quite handy.

Testing

• xUnit

• Moq

• Specflow - deprecated

Static code analysis

• SonarQube/Cloud - for code quality, coverage and security

• Veracode - security

• CodeQL - security

• Dependabot - security

• Snyk - security

Observability

Microsoft has some new open source tools - read here

There are other built-in support for health checks, resource utilisation monitoring as well that is worth looking into. These now seem to have some integrations with more common open source tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana etc.