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10 Best C# NuGet Packages to Improve Your Productivity in 2022
In this blog, we discuss the 10 best NuGet packages for improving the productivity of developers when using C#:
REST stands for representational state transfer. RestSharp is the most popular HTTP client library for .NET. Using this library, C# developers can easily call remote resources over HTTP, and it takes care of serializing the request body to JSON or XML and deserializing them in the response.
The RestSharp NuGet package supports:
Total downloads: 109.9M
Total Downloads: 1.6B
Logs are records of actions, exceptions, information, and warnings. Logging is an important factor in application development that helps developers to detect and resolve issues easily.
When other logging tools provide the log data in unstructured format, Serilog provides structured logs. This also allows developers to easily record configured event data across consoles, files, and all types of storage systems.
Total downloads: 360.6M
Testing plays a major role in software development to ensure the correctness of the code.
Total downloads: 152.1M
The primary features of Insight.Database include:
Note: To learn more about Insight.Database, refer to this GitHub page.
Total downloads: 686.5K
FluentValidation has numerous built-in validations such as null check, string empty validation, max length, and min length. It also supports a custom validator, customizing validation messages based on property name, providing messages based on localization, asynchronous validations, and so on.
Total downloads: 117M
Working with date-times and time zones in .NET is very painful. Noda Time fills the gap of .NET date-time operation and makes life easier. It gives different APIs to handle UTC, local dates, and local time zones. The clock service functionality easily converts local time to UTC and UTC to local time, thereby avoiding the major mistakes made by developers.
Total downloads: 45.7M
Some of the most common functionalities available on the email object are To, From, CC/BCC, Subject, Body, Attach, UsingTemplate, and SendAsync.
Total downloads: 1.8M
Hangfire supports a wide variety of background tasks: short-run and long-run, CPU intensive and I/O intensive, one shot and recurrent.
Total downloads: 18.6M
Caching is a great way to improve the performance of an application. LazyCache uses a GetOrAdd format for caching, where you request an item from cache while providing the functionality to add it if the item is missing.
LazyCache is highly suitable for caching database calls, complex object graph building routines, and web service calls that may need to be stored temporarily for performance. It allows items to be cached for more or less time, but by default it saves the cached items for up to 20 minutes.
Key features of LazyCache are:
Total downloads: 7.1M
Thanks for reading! In this blog, we have seen the 10 best NuGet packages for improving productivity when programing with C#. These packages reduce developing time and workload.
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