.NEXT (dotNext) is a set of powerful libraries aimed to improve development productivity and extend .NET API with unique features. Some of these features are planned in future releases of .NET platform but already implemented in the library:

Quick overview of additional features:

• Attachment of user data to an arbitrary objects
• Automatic generation of Equals/GetHashCode for an arbitrary type at runtime which is much better that Visual Studio compile-time helper for generating these methods
• Extended set of atomic operations. Inspired by AtomicInteger and friends from Java
• Fast Reflection
• Fast conversion of bytes to hexadecimal representation and vice versa using ToHex and FromHex methods from Span static class
• ManualResetEvent, ReaderWriterLockSlim and other synchronization primitives now have their asynchronous versions
• Atomic memory access operations for arbitrary value types including enums
• PipeExtensions provides high-level I/O operations for pipelines such as string encoding and decoding
• Various high-performance growable buffers for efficient I/O
• Fully-featured Raft implementation

All these things are implemented in 100% managed code on top of existing .NET API without modifications of Roslyn compiler or CoreFX libraries.

• Features
• API documentation
• Benchmarks
• NuGet Packages

Documentation for older versions:

• 1.x
• 2.x

Release Date: 07-XX-2021

DotNext 3.3.0

• Added ValueTypeExtensions.Normalize extension methods that allow to normalize numbers of different types
• Improved overall performance of extension methods declaring in RandomExtensions class
• Added Func.IsTypeOf<T>() and Predicate.IsTypeOf<T>() cached predicates
• Deprecation of CallerMustBeSynchronizedAttribute

DotNext.Metaprogramming 3.3.0

• Added CodeGenerator.Statement static method to simplify migration from pure Expression Trees
• Updated dependencies

DotNext.Reflection 3.3.0

• Updated dependencies

DotNext.Unsafe 3.3.0

• Updated dependencies

DotNext.Threading 3.3.0

• Introduced a new asynchronous primitive AsyncCorrelationSource for synchronization
• Added ValueTaskCompletionSource<T> as reusable source of tasks suitable for pooling

DotNext.IO 3.3.0

• FileBufferingWriter.GetWrittenContentAsync overload returning ReadOnlySequence<T> now ensures that the buffer tail is flushed to the disk
• FileBufferingWriter.Flush and FileBufferingWriter.FlushAsync methods ensure that the buffer tail is flushed to the disk

DotNext.Net.Cluster 3.3.0

• Added implementation of Jump consistent hash
• Added support of typed message handlers. See MessagingClient and MessageHandler classes for more information

DotNext.AspNetCore.Cluster 3.3.0

• Added ETW counter for response time of nodes in the cluster

Changelog for previous versions located here.

The libraries are versioned according with Semantic Versioning 2.0.

Maintenance support level means that new releases will contain bug fixes only.

Philosophy of development process:

1. All libraries in .NEXT family are available for the wide range of .NET implementations: Mono, Xamarin, .NET Core, .NET
2. Compatibility with AOT compiler should be checked for every release
3. Minimize set of dependencies
4. Provide high-quality documentation
5. Stay cross-platform
6. Provide benchmarks

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.

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This project has adopted the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact conduct@dotnetfoundation.org with any additional questions or comments.