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Visual-studio projects on GitHub
Microsoft Visual Studio IDE ecosystem, including extensions and tooling.
As of , the most-starred Visual-studio projects on GitHub are awesome-vscode (29.1K stars), vcpkg (27.5K stars) and mimikatz (21.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Visual-studio repositories with 178.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was awesome-vscode, with +6 stars in a day.
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+6awesome-vscode
viatsko/awesome-vscode · ★ 29.1KA curated list of delightful VS Code packages and resources — hand-picked extensions, themes and learning material for Visual Studio Code, organized by category.
OpenRCT2
OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2 · ★ 16.4KOpenRCT2 is an open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, the classic construction and management sim where you build and run an amusement park and keep guests happy.
+5runner-images
actions/runner-images · ★ 13.5KIt's the source code GitHub uses to build the VM images behind GitHub-hosted Actions runners and Microsoft-hosted Azure Pipelines agents — Ubuntu, macOS and Windows machines pre-loaded with development tools.
+3roslyn
dotnet/roslyn · ★ 20.7KThe .NET Compiler Platform (Roslyn) — the open-source implementation of the C# and Visual Basic compilers, plus rich APIs for building code analysis tools.
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13 projects · by stars
- 29.1K
#1 · viatsko/awesome-vscodeawesome-vscode
A curated list of delightful VS Code packages and resources — hand-picked extensions, themes and learning material for Visual Studio Code, organized by category.
- 27.5K
#2 · microsoft/vcpkgvcpkg
vcpkg is a free, open-source C/C++ package manager maintained by Microsoft and the C++ community, letting you fetch, build, and manage third-party libraries for your C++ projects.
- 21.9K
#3 · gentilkiwi/mimikatzmimikatz
A small Windows security tool, originally written to learn C. It is best known for extracting plaintext passwords, hashes, PIN codes and Kerberos tickets from memory, and can perform pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket or build Golden tickets.
- 4

roslyn
20.7Kdotnet/roslyn · C#The .NET Compiler Platform (Roslyn) — the open-source implementation of the C# and Visual Basic compilers, plus rich APIs for building code analysis tools.
- 5

OpenRCT2
16.4KOpenRCT2/OpenRCT2 · C++OpenRCT2 is an open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, the classic construction and management sim where you build and run an amusement park and keep guests happy.
- 6

MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit
16.3KMaterialDesignInXAML/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit · C#Google's Material Design brought to WPF: an open-source theme and control library for Windows desktop apps written in C# or VB.Net. It restyles all major WPF controls and adds Material-flavored extras.
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runner-images
13.5Kactions/runner-images · PowerShellIt's the source code GitHub uses to build the VM images behind GitHub-hosted Actions runners and Microsoft-hosted Azure Pipelines agents — Ubuntu, macOS and Windows machines pre-loaded with development tools.
- 8

MyTinySTL
12.5KAlinshans/MyTinySTL · C++A tiny reimplementation of the C++ Standard Template Library written from scratch in C++11 — most standard containers and algorithms, started as the author's first practice project and now at version 2.x.x.
- 9

xmake
12.3Kxmake-io/xmake · LuaXmake is a cross-platform build utility for C/C++ and other languages, driven by Lua scripts, that combines a build tool, project generator, and package manager in one.
- 10
sbox-public
6.5KFacepunch/sbox-public · C#s&box is a modern game engine built on Valve's Source 2 technology and the latest .NET, with an editor for creating games. This specific repo is the engine's source code, meant for people who want to build or contribute to the engine itself.
- 11

OpenDLSS-NR
921maanHimself/OpenDLSS-NR · JavaScriptOpenDLSS-NR is a from-scratch Vulkan reimplementation of NVIDIA's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering network, matching the original bit-exactly down to every internal block boundary, not just the final image.
- 12

dotnet-framework-docker
764microsoft/dotnet-framework-docker · C#This is the official repo providing Dockerfiles for building .NET Framework container images on Windows Server Core, covering the SDK, runtime, ASP.NET, and WCF.
- 13

MGSPatriotFix
168ShizCalev/MGSPatriotFix · C++It's a bugfix and quality-of-life mod for the 'Metal Gear Solid Master Collection: Volume 2' releases of MGS4 and MGS Peace Walker on PC.
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