.NET API Reference Docs

This repository contains documentation for the .NET API reference for .NET 8+ and package-provided APIs. We track all work for this repository using GitHub issues. The documentation for APIs is built from the text and code snippets in this repo, and from the samples in the dotnet/samples repository.

For .NET Framework API reference, see the dotnet/dotnetfw-api-docs repository.

The repository for conceptual .NET documentation is the dotnet/docs repository.

:purple_heart: Contribute

We welcome contributions to help us improve and complete the .NET API reference docs.

To contribute, see:

• The .NET Contributor Guide :ledger: for instructions on procedures we use.

• Issues labeled help wanted :label: for ideas.

• The API reference docs for some assemblies are maintained in the assembly's source code outside this repo. For those assemblies, edits to the XML here are auto-generated and ported, so docs for APIs in those assemblies should be updated by editing the source code comments. For more information, see here.

  Namespaces and types whose docs are maintained in the assembly's source code repo set the open_to_public_contributors metadata to false. (That metadata disables the Edit button on the published docs.)

:bookmark_tabs: Code of conduct

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information, see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.