KGy SOFT .net Libraries
Free libraries for .NET Framework, .NET Core and .NET Standard
Core Libraries
KGy SOFT Core Libraries features high-performance and handy general libraries.
Many of them aim to replace existing APIs of the original .NET framework with more efficient versions.
Among others:
- Useful extensions for simple types, collections, and others
- High-performance collections
- High-performance reflection API
- Very compact and efficient binary serializer
- Powerful XML serializer
- Resource managers for .resx resources with dynamic expansion support
- Base classes for business objects and model classes with change tracking, editing, undo/redo capability and validation.
- Technology-agnostic command binding with disposable event handlers
- Performance measurement and other diagnostic tools
- and more…
Drawing
KGy SOFT Drawing Libraries provides advanced features for System.Drawing types.
Among others:
- Fast direct Bitmap data access for every PixelFormat
Quantizing using predefined or optimized colors
Dithering using ordered, error diffusion, random noise or interleaved gradient noise dithering techniques - Several built-in icons as well as simple access to Windows associated and stock icons.
- Extracting bitmaps from multi-frame bitmaps and icons.
- Creating combined icons and multi-resolution bitmaps.
- Saving metafiles in EMF/WMF formats.
- Advanced support for saving images as Icon, BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF formats.
- Converting between various pixel formats preserving transparency if possible.
- Useful extensions for the Icon, Bitmap, Image, Metafile and Graphics types.
License
KGy SOFT Libraries are under the CC BY-ND 4.0 license (see a short summary here). It allows you to copy and redistribute these materials in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. The only thing is not allowed is to distribute a modified material as yours.