iCal.NET is an iCalendar (RFC 5545) class library for .NET aimed at providing RFC 5545 compliance, while providing full compatibility with popular calendaring applications and libraries.

Getting iCal.NET

iCal.NET is available as a nuget package.

Migrating from dday.ical to ical.net

There's a guide just for you: Migrating from dday.ical

Examples

The wiki contains several pages of examples of common ical.net usage scenarios.

• Simple event with a recurrence
• Deserializing an ics file
• Working with attachments
• Working with recurring elements
• Concurrency scenarios and PLINQ
• Migrating from dday.ical

Versioning

ical.net uses semantic versioning. In a nutshell:

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 backwards-compatible manner, and
3. PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

Contributing

Fork and submit a pull request! If you haven't gotten feedback from me in a few days, please send me an email: [email protected]. Sometimes I don't see them.

A couple of guidelines to keep code quality high, and code reviews efficient:

• If you are submitting a fix, please include a unit test that tests for that bug. Unit tests are how we can be sure we haven't broken B while changing A. The unit test project has some good examples of how unit tests are structured. If you've never written (or run!) a unit test in Visual Studio, and you're uncertain how to do so, have a look at the NUnit Test Adapter, which is a free add-in with explicit nunit test support.
• Don't submit a change that has broken some of the unit tests. There are bugs in ical.net, as there are in all software. I have found cases where the unit tests themselves assert the wrong things. I have fixed several of these cases. Breaking a unit test that asserts the wrong thing is OK, but please make it assert the right thing so it's passing again.
• Please keep your commits and their messages meaningful. It is better to have many small commits, each with a message explaining the "why" of that specific change than it is to have a single, messy commit that does a dozen different things squashed together. (Adding new features being the exception.) Clean commits speed up the code review process.

Immediate wins

v2 - Current version

Bug fixes and unit tests are the order of the day, particularly focusing on symmetric serialization and deserialization. dday.ical had many unit tests showing that various aspects of deserialization worked properly, but did not have many (any?) tests that showed that serialization worked. I am working on making sure these operations are reliably symmetrical.

Secondly, I am working on a .NET Core port. This work is largely done, but the tooling support for .NET Core isn't great. I have postponed work on that until such time as .NET Core versions can be emitted as part of a standard "Batch Build" alongside normal .NET binaries.

v3 - Future version

I have written a fairly detailed collection of things I'd like to get done for v3, which will involve some significant API changes, and simplifications of serialization and deserialization.

http://rianjs.net/2016/07/api-changes-for-ical-net-v3

I don't have clear plans beyond what I have outlined there. It may be that ical.net can be put on a shelf for a while after that.

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iCal.NET logo adapted from Love Calendar By Sergey Demushkin, RU