Azure/DotNetty

DotNetty project – a port of netty, event-driven asynchronous network application framework

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README

DotNetty Project

DotNetty is a port of Netty, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Use

Official releases are on NuGet.
Nightly builds are available on MyGet.

Contribute

We gladly accept community contributions.

Issues: Please report bugs using the Issues section of GitHub
Source Code Contributions:
Please follow the Microsoft Azure Projects Contribution Guidelines open source that details information on onboarding as a contributor
See C# Coding Style for reference on coding style.

networking

protocols

Project health

Overall

4.8/10

Maintained

0/10

Code review

6/10

OpenSSF Scorecard

Significant stargazers

vongosling

572 followers · starred Aug 2016

Filip W

905 followers · starred May 2016

zirain

142 followers · starred Sep 2016

Esun Kim

118 followers · starred Dec 2015

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