Dogma Solutions Foundation

The Dogma Solutions "Foundation" project (2005-2025) is an attempt to provide a basic and modern set of (opinionated):

Interfaces and abstractions for objects, DTOs, an entities modeling
Recyclable low-level functionalities
Simple implementations of most common design patterns

Versions history and versioning criteria

All packages follows the conventions of Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.
Cit.:

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes
2. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner
3. PATCH version when you make backward compatible bug fixes

Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions
to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.

✅ v6.0 - Current

First release date: October 2025
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net7.0, net8.0, net9.0
❌ Dropped support to net6.0
*️⃣ Changed references to OPC Foundation 1.5 (previously was 1.4)

✅ v5.1 - Maintained

First release date: 2025/09/03
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0, net9.0
🆕 Added CycloneDX SBOM functionalities
🆕 Added SPDX SBOM functionalities
💡 Use OPC Foundation 1.4

✅ v5.0 - Maintained

First release date: 2025/02/19
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0, net9.0
🆕 Added support to net9.0
❌ Dropped support to net472
💡 Use OPC Foundation 1.4

✅ v4.5 - Maintained

First release date: 2025/10/01
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0
*️⃣ Changed references to OPC Foundation 1.5 (previously was 1.4)

✅ v4.4 - Maintained

First release date: 2025/04/07
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0
💡 Use OPC Foundation 1.4

✅ v4.3 - Maintained

First release date: 2024/04/16
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0
💡 Use OPC Foundation 1.4

⚠ v4.2 - Obsolete

First release date: 2024/02/09
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0, net7.0, net8.0
🆕 Added support to net7.0
🆕 Added support to net8.0

❌ 4.1.* - EOS

First release date: 2024/02/08
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0

❌ 4.0.* - EOS

First release date: 2023/08/12
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0

❌ 3.2.* - EOS

First release date: 2023/10/08
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0

❌ 3.1.* - EOS

First release date: 2023/05/29
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472, net5.0, net6.0
🆕 Added support to net5.0
🆕 Added support to net6.0

❌ 3.0.* - EOS

First release date: 2022/09/30
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472

❌ 2.0.* - EOS

First release date: 2020/04/27
.NET versions: netstandard2.0, net472
🆕 Added support to netstandard2.0
🆕 Added support to net472
❌ Dropped support to net46

❌ 1.0.* - EOS

First release date: 2017/09/27
.NET versions: net46

Packages

Every package contains a specific subset of functionalities related to a specific area of interest.
Here follows a list of NuGet packages aggregated by topic.

Application infrastructure and configuration

Extensions to simplify the creation of application infrastructures.

DogmaSolutions.ApplicationInfrastructure
DogmaSolutions.AspNetCore
DogmaSolutions.AspNetCore.Security
DogmaSolutions.CommandLine
DogmaSolutions.Configuration
DogmaSolutions.Configuration.SqlLite
DogmaSolutions.Configuration.SqlServer

Benchmarking and monitoring

Basic functions to implement integrated benchmarks inside performance-aware applications.

DogmaSolutions.Benchmarking
DogmaSolutions.Benchmarking.MicrosoftLogging
DogmaSolutions.Prtg

Security and cryptography

Functionalities that extend and simplify the usage of existing cryptographic frameworks and security-aware libraries.

DogmaSolutions.Certificates
DogmaSolutions.Cryptography
DogmaSolutions.AspNetCore.Security
DogmaSolutions.Security
DogmaSolutions.Security.Ldap
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Encryption
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Encryption.Abstractions

Primitives, data modeling and data manipulation

Utils to manipulate primitives and low-level data formats.

DogmaSolutions.Contracts
DogmaSolutions.Collections
DogmaSolutions.Collections.Smart
DogmaSolutions.Csv
DogmaSolutions.Geography
DogmaSolutions.Json
DogmaSolutions.PrimitiveTypes
DogmaSolutions.Xml

Low-level utils

Low-level utils of various kinds.

DogmaSolutions.Statistics
DogmaSolutions.Tasking
DogmaSolutions.I18n
DogmaSolutions.ErrorsHandling
DogmaSolutions.FileSystem
DogmaSolutions.Networking

Reflection

Reflection functionalities and helpers to discover assemblies and types based on their features and contents.

DogmaSolutions.Reflection
DogmaSolutions.Reflection.Discovery

Design abstractions and Design Patterns

Classes, interfaces, datamodels and basic implementations of commonly used design patterns

DogmaSolutions.DataContracts
DogmaSolutions.DesignPatterns
DogmaSolutions.StateMachines
DogmaSolutions.Services
DogmaSolutions.Services.Serialization

Industrial automation and system integration

Functionalities to build supervisors of industrial devices.

DogmaSolutions.Devices
DogmaSolutions.Devices.I40

IBH devices: functionalities to build supervisors of industrial devices based on IBH technology

DogmaSolutions.Devices.Ibh
DogmaSolutions.Devices.Ibh.I40

Siemens devices: functionalities to build supervisors of industrial devices based on Siemens S7 technology

DogmaSolutions.Devices.Siemens
DogmaSolutions.Devices.Siemens.I40

OPC-UA-abled devices: functionalities to build supervisors of industrial devices able to communicate via OPC-UA

DogmaSolutions.Devices.Opc.Ua
DogmaSolutions.Devices.Opc.Ua.Abstractions

OPC-UA integration: services, utils and extensions to build OPC-UA clients, servers and supervisors

DogmaSolutions.Opc.Ua.Client
DogmaSolutions.Opc.Ua.Server
DogmaSolutions.Opc.Ua.Server.Abstractions
DogmaSolutions.Opc.Ua.Server.Hosting
DogmaSolutions.Opc.Ua.Server.Hosting.Abstractions

Media

Images and videos manipulation

DogmaSolutions.Drawing
DogmaSolutions.Mjpeg

Data, database and entities

Extensions and basic functionalities to build data-management layers and infrastructures.

DogmaSolutions.Data
DogmaSolutions.Data.Materialization
DogmaSolutions.Data.Sql
DogmaSolutions.Entities.Contracts
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.AspNetCore
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Auditing → utils to facilitate the implementation of auditing functionalities at DatabaseContext-level
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Contracts
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Secured → utils to facilitate the implementation of data-access services including security checks
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Unsecured → utils to facilitate the implementation of data-access services without security checks
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Utils
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Encryption → utils to facilitate column encryption using a configurable key
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Checks → utils to create check constraints
DogmaSolutions.EntityFrameworkCore.Encryption.Abstractions
DogmaSolutions.SqlServer.LocalDb