aaubry/YamlDotNet

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2855 stars · 521 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

YamlDotNet is a YAML library for .NET runtimes including netstandard, .NET 8/10, and .NET Framework. It provides low-level YAML parsing and emitting, a high-level object model, and a serialization library for reading and writing objects to and from YAML streams.

Use cases

• serialize C# objects to YAML
• parse YAML files in .NET
• deserialize YAML into objects
• emit YAML documents programmatically
• read configuration files written in YAML
• convert between YAML and .NET object models

When to choose

• you need YAML support in any .NET runtime including netstandard
• you want both low-level parsing and high-level object serialization
• you need YAML 1.1 and 1.2 spec conformance
• you want a mature, widely-used MIT-licensed YAML library

When to avoid

• you work outside the .NET ecosystem
• you need YAML 1.2 emitting, which is not yet supported
• you need a general-purpose data format library covering JSON or XML as well

Facets

library · maturity stable

serialization parser yaml developer-tools files backend dotnet cross-platform yaml-parser yaml-emitter netstandard object-model deserialization

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