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We recommend using the Cake dotnet tool moving forward - https://cakebuild.net/blog/2021/11/cake-v2.0.0-rc0001-released#supported-runners-and-required.net-version

There is a newer version of this package available.
See the version list below for details.
dotnet add package Cake --version 1.1.0
NuGet\Install-Package Cake -Version 1.1.0
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.
<PackageReference Include="Cake" Version="1.1.0" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add Cake --version 1.1.0
#r "nuget: Cake, 1.1.0"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
// Install Cake as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=Cake&version=1.1.0

// Install Cake as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=Cake&version=1.1.0

The Cake script runner.

There are no supported framework assets in this package.

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ScriptCs.Cake

Get a simple Cake context in your ScriptCs scripts

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Cake build tools

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Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
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The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
HandyOrg/HandyControl
Contains some simple and commonly used WPF controls
Live-Charts/Live-Charts
Simple, flexible, interactive & powerful charts, maps and gauges for .Net
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:angel: The ultimate angle brackets parser library parsing HTML5, MathML, SVG and CSS to construct a DOM based on the official W3C specifications.
Version Downloads Last updated
1.3.0 901,436 10/7/2021
1.2.0 60,841 8/29/2021
1.1.0 249,742 3/6/2021
1.0.0 90,110 2/7/2021
1.0.0-rc0003 5,867 1/29/2021
1.0.0-rc0002 10,191 12/20/2020
1.0.0-rc0001 14,392 11/5/2020
0.38.5 1,210,634 9/20/2020
0.38.4 565,496 6/26/2020
0.38.3 3,301 6/26/2020
0.38.2 131,059 6/9/2020
0.38.1 38,775 5/30/2020
0.38.0 28,058 5/30/2020
0.37.0 1,269,580 2/1/2020
0.36.0 201,579 1/11/2020
0.35.0 677,368 9/28/2019
0.34.1 755,607 7/17/2019
0.34.0 28,351 7/16/2019
0.33.0 608,796 4/1/2019
0.32.1 483,128 1/4/2019
0.32.0 38,405 1/4/2019
0.31.0 72,509 12/13/2018
0.30.0 3,842,203 8/22/2018
0.29.0 104,610 7/6/2018
0.28.1 81,628 6/19/2018
0.28.0 77,175 5/31/2018
0.27.2 61,017 5/15/2018
0.27.1 73,672 4/21/2018
0.27.0 12,941 4/19/2018
0.26.1 212,062 3/3/2018
0.26.0 56,428 2/26/2018
0.25.0 533,265 1/17/2018
0.24.0 127,392 12/29/2017
0.23.0 410,511 10/11/2017
0.22.2 90,136 9/17/2017
0.22.1 6,828 9/16/2017
0.22.0 77,876 9/13/2017
0.21.1 405,142 7/15/2017
0.21.0 39,964 7/14/2017
0.20.0 237,336 6/12/2017
0.19.5 157,140 5/4/2017
0.19.4 200,465 4/18/2017
0.19.3 28,324 4/4/2017
0.19.2 21,808 4/1/2017
0.19.1 25,583 3/24/2017
0.19.0 23,701 3/23/2017
0.18.0 62,935 3/7/2017
0.17.0 204,515 11/9/2016
0.16.2 25,008 10/11/2016
0.16.1 11,903 9/25/2016
0.16.0 88,144 9/15/2016
0.15.2 63,554 7/29/2016
0.15.1 5,440 7/28/2016
0.15.0 9,548 7/26/2016
0.14.0 13,221 7/11/2016
0.13.0 12,894 6/7/2016
0.12.0 88,980 5/25/2016
0.11.0 32,135 5/1/2016
0.10.1 15,127 4/7/2016
0.10.0 11,659 3/16/2016
0.9.0 143,903 2/23/2016
0.8.0 10,431 1/18/2016
0.7.0 7,232 12/23/2015
0.6.4 12,006 12/9/2015
0.6.3 4,536 12/7/2015
0.6.2 4,829 12/3/2015
0.6.1 5,319 12/2/2015
0.6.0 8,537 11/4/2015
0.5.5 6,047 10/11/2015
0.5.4 9,949 9/11/2015
0.5.3 5,378 8/31/2015
0.5.2 5,889 8/15/2015
0.5.1 6,286 7/27/2015
0.5.0 6,269 7/20/2015
0.4.3 5,097 7/5/2015
0.4.2 6,248 5/27/2015
0.4.1 4,868 5/18/2015
0.4.0 5,254 5/12/2015
0.3.2 6,411 4/16/2015
0.2.2 5,129 3/31/2015
0.2.1 6,164 3/17/2015
0.2.0 4,678 3/15/2015
0.1.34 4,937 3/2/2015
0.1.33 5,259 2/24/2015
0.1.32 5,370 2/10/2015
0.1.30 5,010 2/8/2015
0.1.29 4,961 1/28/2015
0.1.28 4,876 1/18/2015
0.1.27 5,180 1/13/2015
0.1.26 4,562 1/11/2015
0.1.25 5,403 1/1/2015
0.1.24 5,129 12/12/2014
0.1.23 5,028 11/21/2014
0.1.22 4,974 11/20/2014
0.1.21 5,159 9/23/2014
0.1.20 5,118 9/14/2014
0.1.19 5,366 9/3/2014
0.1.18 5,296 8/21/2014
0.1.17 5,191 7/29/2014
0.1.16 5,228 7/23/2014
0.1.15 5,272 7/20/2014
0.1.14 5,174 7/16/2014
0.1.13 4,954 7/10/2014
0.1.12 5,237 7/10/2014
0.1.11 5,013 7/1/2014
0.1.10 4,949 7/1/2014
0.1.9 5,289 6/28/2014
0.1.8 5,522 6/24/2014
0.1.7 5,284 6/20/2014
0.1.6 5,625 6/17/2014
0.1.5 5,267 6/16/2014
0.1.4 5,370 6/15/2014
0.1.3 5,303 6/14/2014
0.1.2 5,400 6/13/2014
0.1.1 5,305 6/12/2014
0.1.0 5,809 6/11/2014
0.0.8 5,826 6/11/2014
0.0.7 6,013 6/10/2014
0.0.6 5,386 6/6/2014
0.0.5 5,875 6/6/2014
0.0.4 6,101 6/5/2014
0.0.3 5,698 6/4/2014
0.0.2 5,824 6/4/2014

2983 No possibility of adding variable with isOutput=true in Azure Pipelines
2903 Integrate Cake.DotNetTool.Module
2685 Better dotnet tool integration
3190 Working directory is not respected in BuildContext constructor
3143 ParseSolution throws IndexOutOfRangeException on empty lines
3058 Regression: Tools are no longer not restored in working directory
2852 Terminal output colours
3219 Update nuspec iconUrl in packages to use CDN URL
3216 Remap NuGetLogger Verbose/Verbose to ICakeLog Debug/Diagnostic
3213 Add iconUrl fallback to Cake and Cake.CoreCLR packages
3193 Update Cake unit MS Test SDK dependencies to 16.9.1
3191 Update Roslyn (Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting) to 3.9.0-4.final
3188 Update Cake.NuGet dependencies to latest stable
3144 TeamCity pull request info requires "GIT_BRANCH" environment variable
3133 Add IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract and IncludeAllContentForSelfExtract to DotNetCorePublishSettings
3127 Add ResultsDirectory to VSTestSettings
3125 ReportGenerator missing report types
3081 Add netcoreapp3.1 target to Cake
3066 Prefer tools with platform affinity
3040 Package ID Prefix Reservation for Cake.* on nuget.org for cake-build organization
3024 WindowsRegistry: Expose other root registry keys to Cake scripts (e.g. HKEY_CURRENT_USER)
2975 Add support for opting out of ANSI coloring via NO_COLOR env. variable
2967 Expose TeamCity build properties dictionary via TeamCityBuildInfo
2966 Enable AnsiConsoleRenderer in TeamCity and Azure Pipelines
2955 Add Build Start Date & Time to TeamCity build information
2941 ProcessArgumentBuilder helpers should return empty builder when values is null
2932 Add dotnet test --blame Flag to DotNetCoreTestSettings
2314 There's no way to set platform like Debug|iPhone
1633 Some command line output ignores system foreground color configuration
2904 (Frosting) Tool installer should respect configuration