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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There is a newer version of this package available.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 1.0.0                
NuGet\Install-Package Cake -Version 1.0.0                
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="1.0.0" />                
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add Cake --version 1.0.0                
#r "nuget: Cake, 1.0.0"                
#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=1.0.0

// Install Cake as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=Cake&version=1.0.0                

The Cake script runner.

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Get a simple Cake context in your ScriptCs scripts

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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.
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Simple, flexible, interactive & powerful charts, maps and gauges for .Net
AngleSharp/AngleSharp
:angel: The ultimate angle brackets parser library parsing HTML5, MathML, SVG and CSS to construct a DOM based on the official W3C specifications.
Code52/carnac
A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard
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1.3.0 1,091,029 10/7/2021 1.3.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
1.2.0 61,311 8/29/2021 1.2.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
1.1.0 256,480 3/6/2021 1.1.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
1.0.0 92,329 2/7/2021 1.0.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
1.0.0-rc0003 5,914 1/29/2021 1.0.0-rc0003 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
1.0.0-rc0002 10,222 12/20/2020 1.0.0-rc0002 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
1.0.0-rc0001 14,424 11/5/2020 1.0.0-rc0001 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.38.5 1,308,960 9/20/2020 0.38.5 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.38.4 607,121 6/26/2020 0.38.4 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.38.3 3,340 6/26/2020 0.38.3 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.38.2 133,308 6/9/2020 0.38.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.38.1 39,560 5/30/2020 0.38.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.38.0 32,236 5/30/2020 0.38.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.37.0 1,357,891 2/1/2020 0.37.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.36.0 203,313 1/11/2020 0.36.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.35.0 716,255 9/28/2019 0.35.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.34.1 780,849 7/17/2019 0.34.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.34.0 28,633 7/16/2019 0.34.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.33.0 627,616 4/1/2019 0.33.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.32.1 507,842 1/4/2019 0.32.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.32.0 38,979 1/4/2019 0.32.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.31.0 72,901 12/13/2018 0.31.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.30.0 3,849,093 8/22/2018 0.30.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.29.0 107,332 7/6/2018 0.29.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.28.1 81,742 6/19/2018 0.28.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.28.0 77,407 5/31/2018 0.28.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.27.2 61,119 5/15/2018 0.27.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.27.1 74,073 4/21/2018 0.27.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.27.0 13,083 4/19/2018 0.27.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.26.1 212,546 3/3/2018 0.26.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.26.0 56,896 2/26/2018 0.26.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.25.0 542,672 1/17/2018 0.25.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.24.0 127,710 12/29/2017 0.24.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.23.0 422,538 10/11/2017 0.23.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.22.2 93,700 9/17/2017 0.22.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.22.1 6,880 9/16/2017 0.22.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.22.0 78,295 9/13/2017 0.22.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.21.1 406,120 7/15/2017 0.21.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.21.0 40,736 7/14/2017 0.21.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.20.0 237,501 6/12/2017 0.20.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.19.5 157,964 5/4/2017 0.19.5 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.19.4 200,548 4/18/2017 0.19.4 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.19.3 28,766 4/4/2017 0.19.3 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.19.2 21,846 4/1/2017 0.19.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.19.1 25,631 3/24/2017 0.19.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.19.0 23,760 3/23/2017 0.19.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.18.0 63,120 3/7/2017 0.18.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.17.0 205,651 11/9/2016 0.17.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.16.2 25,182 10/11/2016 0.16.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.16.1 11,952 9/25/2016 0.16.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.16.0 88,183 9/15/2016 0.16.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.15.2 63,935 7/29/2016 0.15.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.15.1 5,476 7/28/2016 0.15.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.15.0 9,609 7/26/2016 0.15.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.14.0 13,260 7/11/2016 0.14.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.13.0 12,983 6/7/2016 0.13.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.12.0 89,038 5/25/2016 0.12.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.11.0 32,184 5/1/2016 0.11.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.10.1 15,168 4/7/2016 0.10.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.10.0 11,701 3/16/2016 0.10.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.9.0 143,951 2/23/2016 0.9.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.8.0 10,469 1/18/2016 0.8.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.7.0 7,268 12/23/2015 0.7.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.6.4 12,074 12/9/2015 0.6.4 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.6.3 4,583 12/7/2015 0.6.3 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.6.2 4,869 12/3/2015 0.6.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.6.1 5,358 12/2/2015 0.6.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.6.0 8,574 11/4/2015 0.6.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.5.5 6,095 10/11/2015 0.5.5 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.5.4 10,107 9/11/2015 0.5.4 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.5.3 5,417 8/31/2015 0.5.3 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.5.2 5,936 8/15/2015 0.5.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.5.1 6,327 7/27/2015 0.5.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.5.0 6,304 7/20/2015 0.5.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.4.3 5,135 7/5/2015 0.4.3 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.4.2 6,300 5/27/2015 0.4.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.4.1 4,906 5/18/2015 0.4.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.4.0 5,296 5/12/2015 0.4.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.3.2 6,454 4/16/2015 0.3.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.2.2 5,169 3/31/2015 0.2.2 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.2.1 6,205 3/17/2015 0.2.1 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.2.0 4,713 3/15/2015 0.2.0 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.1.34 4,979 3/2/2015 0.1.34 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.1.33 5,295 2/24/2015 0.1.33 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
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0.1.30 5,051 2/8/2015 0.1.30 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
0.1.29 5,021 1/28/2015 0.1.29 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
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0.1.27 5,217 1/13/2015 0.1.27 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
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0.0.4 6,141 6/5/2014 0.0.4 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
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3050 Frosting: Rename CakeHost extension from UseTool to InstallTool.
2930 Increase potential breaking change property.
2333 RFC-0001: Rewrite Cake CLI.
2292 Remove obsolete methods and properties.
3020 Migrate to Spectre.Console.
2933 Enable NuGet provider in Frosting.
2874 Merge frosting into main Cake repo.
2883 (Frosting) Add support for .NET 5.
2857 Add support for .NET 5.
2776 Checklist for 1.0.
2755 Add DirectoryHashCalculator.
2199 Add GlobPattern class.
741 Add IsRunningOnMacOs() alias.
3083 Update --tree usage example to match option in the help info.
3069 Don't promote UseWorkingDirectory in Frosting default template.
3029 Add ICakeArguments.GetArgument extension.
3018 Cake displays raw ANSI output after running specific executables.
3009 Make Cake Core CakeDataService Public.
2913 Add overload for DotNetCoreRun.
2908 Future proof .NET [Core] detection.
2897 Add tests for MyGetProvider.
2895 Custom contexts should inherit from CakeContextAdapter.
2877 Add NuGet's Icon setting to NuGetPackSettings.
2870 Add helpers for adding multiple strings to ProcessArgumentBuilder.
2866 Support multiple dotnet test options.
2847 Add new GitHub Actions URL environment variables.
2844 Add missing dotnet test options.
2839 Add support for PublishReadyToRunShowWarnings property in DotNetCorePublish.
2838 Add MakeRelative alias to DirectoryPath and FilePath.
2833 Implicit bootstrapping of modules.
2831 ParseAssemblyInfo does not detect lines with extra spaces.
2886 (Frosting) Support all commands that Cake does.
2825 Add option to ignore tool exit code.
2822 Add support of ReportGenerator global tool.
2820 Add DebuggerStepThroughAttribute to generated code.
2817 Bump dependencies.
2801 Inconsistent NuGet file name case.
2792 Add dotnet nologo options.
2743 Tool resolution for multiple names should be breadth first.
2703 OpenCover is missing hideskipped setting.
2623 DotNetCoreTestSettings Can Have Multiple Logger's.
2595 Misleading output message when trying to install prerelease package with the in-process nuget installer.
2892 (Frosting) Add ANSI console.
2893 (Frosting) Align command line parsing with Cake.
2962 Document breaking changes in 1.0 CLI.
2925 Fix sentences which end with double full stop.
2918 Incorrect link for ReSharper's Open Source webpage in Cake readme.
2894 Remove unnecessary documentation and replace it with .
2879 Update links pointing to cakebuild.net to new URL structure.
2836 Update README with more up-to-date "getting started" information.
2811 Identity of BuildProblem in TeamCityProvider should be optional.
1690 Casing causes 'More than one build script specified.' message.
3077 Regression: rc0003 outputs extra characters on OSX.
3072 Attribute [IsDependeeOf] doesn't work.
3038 Tool resolving in Frosting tasks.
3032 Frosting project fails on Linux.
3007 Different arguments between script runner and Frosting.
2963 EndOfStreamException thrown when using loaddependencies=true.
2961 Update dotnet cake usage instructions (dotnet cake --help).
2956 Wrong Cake version in build.config.
2911 C*  syntax errors in exceptions causes Specre.CLI internal error.
2861 Fix error output in 1.0 preview.
2853 Custom argument names are not case insensitive in 1.0 preview.
2887 (Frosting) Fix line endings in build.sh within template package.
2734 Can't resolve resource assemblies.
2066 cake.coreclr help information error.