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Olá,

o que chamo de obsoleto:

1. Incapacidade de lidar com network (Web Services SOAP/REST, Sockets, Remote Method Invocation etc)
2. Dificuldade para lidar com XML (MSXML sofre do mal do chamado DLL Hell, diferentes versões na mesma máquina pelo Internet Explorer frequentemente entram em conflito e fazem aplicações pararem de funcionar)
3. Dificuldade de lidar como host de linguagens script (automação). Este recurso é simplesmente genial. Fiz um exemplo com PowerCOBOL e VBScript (Adding script support to PowerCobol applications
). Muita coisa é possível, mas é complicado passar objetos do Power para a linguagem script para que esta possa manipular o mesmo. Isto dificulta a implementação de Automation (criar Macros, por exemplo) que facilitam a vida do usuário
4. Dificuldade para lidar com mensageria (MSMQ). Não raro dependemos de bibliotecas de terceiros.
5. Impossibilidade de se criar modules/portlets para portais (ex: Dotnetnuke). Isto é uma fonte de frustração para mim, particularmente. Eu pretendia usar o DNN como estrutura de portal para aplicações Cobol para Web, mas não é possível com o Fujitsu Cobol for Windows.
6. Reutilização de componentes .Net (assinatura digital, grids inteligentes, gauges, componentes que consomem web services e um longo etc)
7. Uso do .Net Framework (runtime padrão Microsoft), que vem instalado nas versões do Windows desde o Vista/Windows 7.

Muitos OCXs não funcionam com o Power por causa das estruturas de dados usadas. Isto é eliminado no .Net.

É possível criar aplicações .Net para mobile (incluindo iOS e Android). A tecnologia do Power é Microsoft COM que só funciona no Windows.

Por fim, a class library built in do .Net economiza tempo e dinheiro. Além destas ainda existem as criadas e distribuídas pelos desenvolvedores:

Ajax

    Ajax Control Toolkit - Microsoft
    AJAXNet Pro
    ASP.NET MVC Project Awesome - a rich set of helpers (controls) that you can use to build highly responsive and interactive Ajax-enabled Web applications. These helpers include Autocomplete, AjaxDropdown, Lookup, Confirm Dialog, Popup Form and Pager. Thanks Omu (April 20, 2011)

Build Tools

    Prebuild - Generate project files for all VS version, including major IDE's and tools like SharpDevelop, MonoDevelop, NAnt and Autotools
    Genuilder - Precompiler which lets you transform your source code during the build. Thanks Harry McIntyre (April 13, 2011)

Charting/Graphics

    Microsoft Chart Controls for ASP.NET 3.5 SP1
    Microsoft Chart Controls for Winforms
    ZedGraph Charting
    NPlot - Charting for ASP.NET and WinForms
    Graph# - a graph layout framework contains some layout algorithms and a GraphLayout control for WPF applications. Thanks Florian Standhartinger (April 20, 2011)

Collections/Generics

    PowerCollections - is a library that provides generic collection classes that are not available in the .NET framework. Some of the collections included are the Deque, MultiDictionary, Bag, OrderedBag, OrderedDictionary, Set, OrderedSet, and OrderedMultiDictionary. Thanks Adam Ralph (April 20, 2011)

Compression

    SharpZipLib
    DotNetZip
    YUI Compressor (CSS and JS minification)
    AjaxMinifier (in other downloads) (CSS and JS minification. Also includes MSBuild task)
    SevenZipSharp to pack, unpack a lot of different packages (including RAR, 7ZIP, etc).
    ZipStorer A Pure C# Class to Store Files in Zip

Controls

    Krypton - Free winform controls. Link fixed (April 14, 2011)
    Source Grid - A Grid control
    DevExpress - Over 60 Free Controls from DevExpress. Thanks Florian Standhartinger (April 20, 2011)
    ObjectListView - is a C# wrapper around a .NET ListView. It makes the ListView much easier to use and provides some neat extra functionality. Thanks Florian Standhartinger (April 20, 2011)

Data Mapper

    XmlDataMapper
    AutoMapper
    Dapper
    Massive
    Mapper Extensions Thanks giometrix (April 14, 2011)
    Data accessors from the Data Access Application Block
    Value Injecter - ets you define your own convention-based matching algorithms (ValueInjections) in order to match up (inject) source values to destination values. Thanks Omu (April 20, 2011)

Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control

    Unity Framework - Microsoft
    StructureMap - Jeremy Miller
    Castle Windsor
    NInject
    Spring Framework
    Autofac
    Simple Service Locator
    Managed Extensibility Framework
    TinyIoC
    Funq - a high performance DI framework by eliminating all runtime reflection through the use of lambdas and generic functions as factories. Thanks Marcel Popescu (April 20, 2011).
    Munq - a very small, fast dependency injection container designed for ASP.NET applications, both Webforms and MVC. It has, by design, limited features. The main goal has been to minimize the CPU required for Resolving types from the container. Thanks Marcel Popescu (April 20, 2011).

Design by Contract

    Microsoft Code Contracts
    LinFu
    CuttingEdge.Conditions

IDE

    SharpDevelop - is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects. Thanks Florian Standhartinger (April 20, 2011).

Logging

    Logging Application Block - Microsoft
    Log4Net - Apache
    Error Logging Modules and Handlers(ELMAH)
    NLog
    CuttingEdge.Logging
    Logging Abstraction Api "Common.Logging"

ORM

    NHibernate and FluentNHibernate
    Castle ActiveRecord
    Subsonic
    XmlDataMapper
    Truss Data binding and real time property sync library

PDF Creators/Generators

    PDFsharp
    iTextSharp

Automated Web Testing

    Selenium
    Watin

Misc Testing/Qualitysupport/Behavoir Driven Development (BDD)

    Testdatagenerator NBuilder
    BDD StoryQ
    BDD specflow

URL Rewriting

    url rewriter
    UrlRewriting.Net
    Url Rewriter and Reverse Proxy - Managed Fusion/Nick Berardi

MS Word/Excel Documents Manipulation

    DocX to create, read, manipulate formatted word documents. Easy syntax, working nicely, actively developed. No Microsoft Office necessary.
    Excel XML Writer allows creation of .XLS (Excel) files. No Microsoft Office necessary. Been a while since it has been updated. It also provides code generator to create code from already created XLS file (saved as xml). Haven't tested this but looks very promising. Too bad author is long time gone.
    Excel Reader allows creation/reading of .XLS (Excel) files. No Microsoft Office necessary. Been a while since it has been updated.
    Excel Package allows creation/reading of .XLSX (Excel 2007) files. No Microsoft Office necessary. Author is gone so it's out of date.
    EPPlus is based on Excel Package and allows creation/reading of .XLSX (Excel 2007). It is actually the most advanced even comparing to NPOI.
    NPOI is the .NET version of POI Java project at Apache POI - the Java API for Microsoft Documents. POI is an open source project which can help you read/write xls, doc, ppt files.
    sharp2word - a Word 2003 XML Documents Generator from C# code without any components or libraries. Thanks dublicator (April 20, 2011)
    ClosedXML - an actively developed library for generating OpenXML Excel files. Thanks Joseph Robichaud (April 26, 2011)

Serialization

    sharpserializer - xml/binary serializer for wpf, asp.net and silverlight
    Protobuf.NET - fastest serialization port protobuf format into .NET platform. Thanks slava pocheptsov (April 26, 2011)

Silverlight

    Silverlight Toolkit

Social Media

    LinqToTwitter - Linq-based wrapper for all Twitter API functionality in C#
    Facebook C# SDK - A toolkit for creating facebook applications / integrating websites with Facebook using the new Graph API or the old rest API.

Package managers for external libraries

    NuGet (formerly known as NuPack) - Microsoft (developer-focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development)
    OpenWrap - Sebastien Lambla - Open Source Dependency Manager for .net applications

Unit Testing/Mocking

    NUnit
    Rhino Mocks
    Moq
    TypeMock.Net
    xUnit.net
    Gallio/MbUnit
    Machine.Specifications
    fakeiteasy - a .Net dynamic fake framework for creating all types of fake objects, mocks, stubs etc. Thanks Omu (April 20, 2011)
    NSubstitute - a A friendly substitute for .NET mocking frameworks. Thanks xerxesb (May 10, 2011)
    Shouldly - How asserting should be. Thanks xerxesb (May 10, 2011)

Validation

    Validation Application Block - Microsoft
    xVal
    Fluent Validation

Threading

    Smart Thread Pool - Thread Pool management library
    Retlang - a high performance C# threading library. Thanks MarcBot (April 13, 2011)
    bbv.Common - an open source library of software components that makes building multi-threaded, event-based and loosely coupled systems easy. Thanks Urs Enzler (April 14, 2011)
    PowerThreading - a llibrary (DLL) containing many classes to help with threading and asynchronous programming. Thanks Adam Ralph (April 20, 2011)

Unclassified

    CSLA Framework - Business Objects Framework
    AForge.net - AI, computer vision, genetic algorithms, machine learning
    Prism - Composit UI application block for WPF, Silverlight and WP7 - Microsoft patterns & practices
    Enterprise Library 5.0 - Logging, Exception Management, Caching, Cryptography, Data Access, Validation, Security, Policy Injection - Microsoft patterns & practices
    File helpers library
    C5 Collections - Collections for .NET
    Quartz.NET - Enterprise Job Scheduler for .NET Platform
    MiscUtil - Utilities by Jon Skeet
    Noda Time - DateTime replacement (idomatic port of Joda Time from Java)
    Lucene.net - Text indexing and searching
    Json.NET - Linq over JSON
    Flee - expression evaluator
    PostSharp - AOP
    IKVM - brings the extensive world of Java libraries to .NET.
    C# Webserver - Embeddable webserver
    Long Path - Microsoft
    .NET Engines for the GOLD Parsing System
    NCQRS - library for event-driven architectures (CQRS).
    Reactive Extensions for .NET - a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections. Thanks steve (April 14, 2011)
    Mono.GameMath - a project to develop a highly-performant math library for games, based on XNA APIs. Thanks Alex Rønne Petersen (April 14, 2011)
    SLSharp - a runtime IL-to-GLSL translation engine, allowing people to write GLSL shaders as C# code. Thanks Alex Rønne Petersen (April 14, 2011)
    InfusionSoftDotNet - a dll to ease the pain for .Net developers to access the InfusionSoft API. Thanks Michael Gibbs (April 20, 2011)
    re-mix - provides mixins for C# and Visual Basic .NET. Thanks Stefan Papp (April 20, 2011)
    Mono.Cecil - a library written by Jb Evain to generate and inspect programs and libraries in the ECMA CIL format. It has full support for generics, and support some debugging symbol format. Thanks Florian Standhartinger (April 20, 2011)
    ImapX - is an modern .NET 2.0 library for management of IMAP folders, supports SSL Connection and different IMAP formats, such as Gmail IMAP, AOL IMAP (November 30, 2011)

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Saludos, Emerson