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NetPrints

NetPrints is a visual, node-based programming language for .NET, in the spirit of Unreal Engine's Blueprints. You wire up nodes instead of writing C# by hand, and NetPrints compiles the graph into a .NET binary or into C# source you can read, keep and build on. Any .NET assembly — Framework, Core or Standard — can be referenced and used from a graph, so the goal is: if it's made in C#, you can call it from NetPrints.

This is a cross-platform, Linux-first continuation of the original NetPrints by Robin Kahlow, rebuilt on Avalonia: the same editor and language on Linux, Windows and macOS, on the current .NET 10.

Where to go next​

  • Install — the editor, the netprints CLI tool and the NetPrints.Sdk package, and what each one needs.
  • Guide — how a NetPrints project is laid out, the .netpc graph format, and writing editor extensions.
  • API reference — the generated reference for NetPrints.Core and NetPrints.Reflection.
  • Contributing — the local package feed and the release process, for anyone packaging or releasing NetPrints.
  • Decisions — the architecture decision records behind the above, plus a Research notes section in the sidebar with the dated write-ups behind them.

Source and downloads​

The source, issue tracker and releases are on GitHub; built editors, the dotnet tool, and the SDK package are published from the Releases page.