# microsoft/dotnet

This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation.

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dotnet
Homepage: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-09-23T22:36:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 52/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 43, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4332, "days_push": 344, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 15103, forks 2239 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:09.162594+00:00)

## What it is
The official GitHub home for .NET, serving as a curated directory of .NET open-source projects from Microsoft and the community, including release notes, documentation links, and awesome lists. It is a navigation hub rather than a software product itself.

## Use cases
- find .NET open source projects
- learn where to file .NET issues
- discover awesome dotnet libraries
- find .NET Framework release notes
- get started with .NET development
- find official .NET documentation repos

## When to choose
- you want a curated starting point for exploring the .NET OSS ecosystem
- you need links to official .NET project repos and docs
- you are looking for community-maintained awesome lists for .NET, MAUI, or Blazor

## When to avoid
- you need to file a bug against a .NET product - use the individual project repos
- you want the .NET runtime or SDK source code itself
- you need an actual installable library or tool

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: stable
- function: developer-tools, documentation
- domain: programming-languages, developer-tools, awesome-lists, cross-platform, web-development
- platform: dotnet, cross-platform, windows
- tags: dotnet, awesome-list, csharp, fsharp, aspnet-core, project-directory, microsoft, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- microsoft/dotnet (main) score 52

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:09.162594+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:06:44.039079+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:09.162594+00:00, sha d0e97fcc094b)
  - homepage: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:51.229921+00:00, sha 2360c1f550fe)
  - site_page: https://www.microsoft.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:51.245813+00:00, sha 2d0091aec259)
  - site_page: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/explore-csharp-15 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:51.239993+00:00, sha c4341fd633b8)
  - site_page: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-and-dotnet-framework-august-2026-servicing-updates (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:51.242994+00:00, sha 7e11aa177229)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.