r/dotnet is a subreddit with 239k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses dotnet, net, csharp, c#, and tool, and they frequently recommend/review libraries, ide for linux, and ide.
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Popular Themes in r/dotnet
#1
Solution Requests
: "Best way to protect/licence a .NET desktop app before selling it?"
7 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "New book release: Clean Architecture with .NET (co-authored with Steve "Ardalis" Smith, foreword by Jason Taylor)"
4 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I created a tool (Echo) to automatically launch secondary programs/scripts whenever a primary application or game is opened."
3 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Struggling to Get Interviews as a Junior/Mid-Level Software Developer. Is the Market Really This Bad?"
1 post
#5
Ideas
: "Weekend project: htop-like monitoring for ASP.NET Core"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/dotnet
#1
Dotnet
: "C# (with Dotnet) on bare metal, a Cosmos gen3 preview"
81 posts
#2
Net
: "Does anyone know how Paint.Net was built? Does it use WinForms or WPF?"
66 posts
#3
Csharp
: "Avalonia app in one file. No XAML, no .csproj, just one code file - now it's possible with .NET 10 File-based apps"
57 posts
#4
C#
: "C# just feels right"
45 posts
#5
Tool
38 posts
#6
Looking For
35 posts
#7
.Net
34 posts
#8
Blazor
: "Posted this at 1.0 a few weeks ago, it's at 1.3 now. Blazor form builder where non-devs configure the form themselves"
22 posts
#9
Struggling
21 posts
#10
Asp.net Core
16 posts
Products Discussed in r/dotnet
Libraries
38 reviews
#1
Puppeteer Sharp
4.8★ from 4 reviews
#2
QuestPDF
4.0★ from 3 reviews
#3
Rotativa
3.3★ from 3 reviews
Ide For Linux
37 reviews
#1
JetBrains
4.2★ from 19 reviews
#2
Microsoft
3.9★ from 16 reviews
#3
OmniSharp
4.0★ from 1 review
Ide
36 reviews
#1
Microsoft
4.6★ from 16 reviews
#2
JetBrains
4.5★ from 13 reviews
#3
JetBrains Rider
5.0★ from 2 reviews
Flair Used in r/dotnet
#1
Question
: "Am I the only one who thinks Clean Architecture is often unnecessary overhead ?"
44 posts
#2
Promotion
: "I just wrote a full minimalistic web API in C# that compiles to 30 MB. Remind me why I should use Go/Python?"
44 posts
#3
Article
: "the agent writes cleaner EF Core than my last junior did. that's the part that worries me."
8 posts
#4
Newbie
: "From Laravel to .NET"
2 posts
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Last updated: June 15, 2026