This community maintained list showcases free tools and services for open source software development on .NET. If you know of any additions to this list PR a change. This list focuses on services specifically supporting .NET development - a list covering a wide range of platforms is available at OSS Perks.
Please sort projects alphabetically and provide a one-line description. Where possible links should be to a page showing free open source plans (for example a web page, blog post or pricing page with open source plan detailed). Create new sections, as appropriate.
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IDEs
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ReSharper - Visual Studio extension providing code analysis, formatting, refactoring and more.
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Visual Studio Community - Full version of Visual Studio available free
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VS Anywhere - Visual Studio extension for in IDE collaborative development.
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Cross Platform Development
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Xamarin - Share .Net code across Windows, iOS, Android and Mac.
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Hosted Build and Continous Integration
- AppVeyor - Windows based cloud build/CI servers tailored for .Net developers.
- TeamCity at CodeBetter - JetBrains TeamCity CI server made available for open source projects by CodeBetter.
- TravisCI - Hosted CI service supporting .Net builds via Mono on Linux.
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Profilers
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ANTS Memory Profiler - .Net memory profiler from redgate.
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ANTS Performance Profiler - .Net performance profiler from redgate.
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dotTrace - Performance profiler for .Net applications
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Aspect Oriented Programming
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PostSharp - Aspect-oriented programming tool to eradicate boilerplate code.
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Code Analysis
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Coverity Scan - Static analysis service to identify defects in C# code.
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dotCover - Code coverage tool integrated with Visual Studio.
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.Net Reflector - Browse, analyse and decompiler IL code.
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Package Management
- MyGet - Publish public NuGet feeds of your packages for free.
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Analytics and Error Reporting
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Bugsnag - Cross platform error reporting.
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Misc
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Crowdin - Localisation management platform.
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Transifex - Localisation management platform.