System.Composition by: Microsoft

This packages provides a version of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that is lightweight and specifically optimized for high throughput scenarios, such as the web. Commonly Used Types: System.Composition.ExportAttribute System.Composition.ImportAttribute System.Composition.Convention.ConventionBuilder System.Composition.Hosting.CompositionHost System.Composition.CompositionContext System.Composition.CompositionContextExtensions

System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource by: Microsoft

Provides Classes that allow you to decouple code logging rich (unserializable) diagnostics/telemetry (e.g. framework) from code that consumes it (e.g. tools) Commonly Used Types: System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticListener System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource

System.Diagnostics.Tracing by: Microsoft

Provides class that enable you to create high performance tracing events to be captured by event tracing for Windows (ETW). Commonly Used Types: System.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource System.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventListener System.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventLevel System.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventKeywords System.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventWrittenEventArgs System.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventAttribute System.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSourceAttribute System.Diagnostics.Tracing.NonEventAttribute

System.Globalization.Calendars by: Microsoft

Provides classes for performing date calculations using specific calendars, including the Gregorian, Julian, Hijri and Korean calendars. Commonly Used Types: System.Globalization.HijriCalendar System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar System.Globalization.HebrewCalendar System.Globalization.KoreanCalendar System.Globalization.ThaiBuddhistCalendar System.Globalization.TaiwanCalendar System.Globalization.JapaneseCalendar System.Globalization.GregorianCalendarTypes System.Globalization.PersianCalendar System.Globalization.UmAlQuraCalendar

System.IO.Compression by: Microsoft

Provides classes that support the compression and decompression of streams. Commonly Used Types: System.IO.Compression.DeflateStream System.IO.Compression.GZipStream System.IO.Compression.CompressionMode System.IO.Compression.CompressionLevel System.IO.Compression.ZipArchiveEntry System.IO.Compression.ZipArchive System.IO.Compression.ZipArchiveMode

System.Linq.Parallel by: Microsoft

Provides classes that supports parallel queries that use Language-Integrated Query (LINQ).

System.Net.Http by: Microsoft

Provides classes for sending HTTP requests and receiving HTTP responses from a resource identified by a URI.

System.Net.Http.WinHttpHandler by: Microsoft

Provides access to a high performance HTTP client handler based on the native Windows HTTP Services (WinHTTP) API. Commonly Used Types: System.Net.Http.WinHttpHandler

System.Net.NetworkInformation by: Microsoft

Provides access to network traffic data, network address information, and notification of address changes for the local computer. Commonly Used Types: System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInformationException System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkAddressChangedEventHandler System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterfaceType System.Net.NetworkInformation.OperationalStatus System.Net.NetworkInformation.IPGlobalProperties System.Net.NetworkInformation.UnicastIPAddressInformation System.Net.NetworkInformation.UnicastIPAddressInformationCollection System.Net.NetworkInformation.PhysicalAddress System.Net.NetworkInformation.TcpConnectionInformation

System.Net.Security by: Microsoft

Provides types, such as System.Net.Security.SslStream, that enable secure network communication between applications and hosts. Commonly Used Types: System.Net.Security.SslStream System.Net.Security.ExtendedProtectionPolicy

System.Net.Sockets by: Microsoft

Provides a managed implementation of the Windows Sockets (Winsock) interface for developers who need to tightly control access to the network. Commonly Used Types: System.Net.Sockets.Socket System.Net.Sockets.SocketAsyncEventArgs System.Net.Sockets.LingerOption System.Net.Sockets.SocketAsyncOperation System.Net.Sockets.ProtocolType System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient System.Net.Sockets.SocketType System.Net.Sockets.UdpClient System.Net.Sockets.SocketShutdown

System.Reactive.Interfaces by: .NET Foundation and Contributors

Reactive Extensions Interfaces Library containing essential interfaces.

System.Resources.ResourceManager by: Microsoft

Provides classes and attributes that allow developers to create, store, and manage various culture-specific resources used in an application. Commonly Used Types: System.Resources.ResourceManager System.Resources.NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute System.Resources.SatelliteContractVersionAttribute System.Resources.MissingManifestResourceException

System.Runtime by: Microsoft

Provides the fundamental primitives, classes and base classes that define commonly-used value and reference data types, events and event handlers, interfaces, attributes, and exceptions. This packages represents the core package, and provides the minimal set of types required to build a managed application. Commonly Used Types: System.Object System.Exception System.Int16 System.Int32 System.Int64 System.Enum System.String System.Char System.Boolean System.SByte System.Byte System.DateTime System.DateTimeOffset System.Single System.Double System.UInt16 System.UInt32 System.UInt64 System.IDisposable System.Uri

System.Runtime.Extensions by: Microsoft

Provides commonly-used classes for performing mathematical functions, conversions, string comparisons and querying environment information. Commonly Used Types: System.Math System.Environment System.Random System.Progress<T> System.Convert System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch System.Runtime.Versioning.FrameworkName System.StringComparer System.IO.Path

System.Runtime.InteropServices by: Microsoft

Provides types that support COM interop and platform invoke services. Commonly Used Types: System.Runtime.InteropServices.GCHandle System.Runtime.InteropServices.GuidAttribute System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException System.DllNotFoundException System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImportAttribute

System.Runtime.Numerics by: Microsoft

Provides the numeric types System.Numerics.BigInteger and System.Numerics.Complex, which complement the numeric primitives, such as System.Byte, System.Double and System.Int32. Commonly Used Types: System.Numerics.BigInteger System.Numerics.Complex

System.Runtime.Serialization.Xml by: Microsoft

Provides classes for serializing objects to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and deserializing XML data to objects. Commonly Used Types: System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractSerializer System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer System.Runtime.Serialization.InvalidDataContractException System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReader System.Xml.XmlDictionaryWriter System.Xml.XmlDictionaryString System.Xml.UniqueId System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractResolver System.Xml.IXmlDictionary

System.ServiceModel.Http by: Microsoft

Provides classes that allow applications to consume HTTP and WebSocket web services. Use the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding class for communication with ASMX-based web services and other services that conform to the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1. Whereas, use the System.ServiceModel.NetHttpBinding class for communication with .NET-based WebSocket services. Commonly Used Types: System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpRequestMessageProperty System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpResponseMessageProperty System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpTransportBindingElement System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpsTransportBindingElement System.ServiceModel.HttpClientCredentialType System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpSecurityMode System.ServiceModel.HttpTransportSecurity System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpMessageCredentialType System.ServiceModel.HttpBindingBase

System.ServiceModel.Security by: Microsoft

Provides common security types for consuming and communicating with services. Commonly Used Types: System.ServiceModel.DnsEndpointIdentity System.ServiceModel.MessageSecurityVersion System.ServiceModel.UpnEndpointIdentity System.ServiceModel.SpnEndpointIdentity