wind39 / spartacus-csharp

Spartacus is a business library written in C#, focused on:

• Access many types of databases in a fast, easy to use and generic way;
• Render reports from a unique XML markup to PDF, using own database objects;
• Really fast import and export spreadsheets (CSV, DBF and XLSX), with no need of Excel or any other piece of software;
• Easy to work with cryptography of files and messages;
• Simple networking classes (server, client, webserver, etc);
• Simple 2D game engine over System.Drawing and System.Windows.Forms.

SpartacusMin is a subset of Spartacus designed to work on Xamarin Android.

NuGet packages:

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/Spartacus
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/SpartacusMin

Examples of how to use Spartacus are here: https://github.com/wind39/spartacus/wiki

Discussion about Spartacus is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/spartacuslibrary/

Spartacus contains this managed libraries:

• Mono.Data.Sqlite (http://www.mono-project.com/docs/database-access/providers/sqlite/)
• Mono.Data.Tds (http://www.mono-project.com/docs/database-access/providers/sqlclient/)
• Oracle ODP.NET, Managed Driver (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Oracle.ManagedDataAccess/)
• Firebird .NET Provider (http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/net-provider/)
• Npgsql (https://github.com/npgsql/npgsql)
• MySQL Connector/NET (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/1.0.html)
• System.Data.SqlServerCe (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.SqlServer.Compact/)
• EPPlus (http://epplus.codeplex.com/)
• MimeKit (https://github.com/jstedfast/MimeKit)
• MailKit (https://github.com/jstedfast/MailKit)
• Bouncy Castle (https://www.bouncycastle.org/csharp/index.html)
• DotNetZip (https://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/)

Spartacus reuse code from this C# projects:

• Mono open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework (https://github.com/mono/mono)
• Mono's ASP.NET hosting server (https://github.com/mono/xsp)
• PDFjet Open Source Edition (http://pdfjet.com/os/edition.html)
• SejExcel, by Jose Segarra (https://github.com/jsegarra1971/SejExcelExport)
• ZipStorer, by Jaime Olivares (https://github.com/jaime-olivares/zipstorer)
• FastDBF, by Ahmed Lacevic (https://github.com/SocialExplorer/FastDBF)
• MultiColumnCombobox, by Nish Nishant (http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19781/A-data-bound-multi-column-combobox)

Spartacus optionally use this libraries:

• SQLite (https://www.sqlite.org/)
• UCanAccess (http://ucanaccess.sourceforge.net/site.html)
• IKVM.NET (http://www.ikvm.net/)
• Native MS SQL Server CE (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.SqlServer.Compact/)
• Firebird Embedded (http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/ufb-cs-embedded.html)

Spartacus DLL is built with Mono C# Compiler (http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/languages/csharp/), merged with ILRepack (https://github.com/gluck/il-repack) and packaged with NuGet (https://www.nuget.org/).

Spartacus is successfully used by this projects:

• OmniDB (https://github.com/OmniDB/OmniDB)
• DotCEP (https://github.com/CristianoRC/DotCEP)

I also would like to thank the following people and companies for help testing and suggesting improvements:

• Planning Service Transfer Pricing (http://www.planningservice.com.br)
• Adsistem Sistemas Administrativos (http://www.adsistem.com.br)
• Rafael Thofehrn Castro (http://www.rafaelthca.com.br)
• Cristiano Raffi Cunha (http://cristianoprogramador.com)