Fragile is a comprehensive archiving library developed for .NET, featuring file compression, encryption, error correction, and integrity verification capabilities. It offers advanced features such as multiple compression algorithms, strong encryption options, Reed-Solomon based error correction and parallel processing support.
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
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Taiizor 💻 🤔 |
This project follows the all contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
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Vegalya 🖋 |
Soferity 🖋 |
Fragile works on .NET Framework, .NET Standard, .NET Core and .NET.
| .NET implementation | Version support |
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| .NET and .NET Core | 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 |
| .NET Framework | 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1 |
| Mono | 5.4, 6.4 |
| Xamarin.iOS | 10.14, 12.16 |
| Xamarin.Mac | 3.8, 5.16 |
| Xamarin.Android | 8.0, 10.0 |
| Universal Windows Platform | 10.0.16299, TBD |
| Unity | 2018.1 |
Binaries for all platforms are built from a single Visual Studio Project. You will need the latset Visual Studio to build or contribute to Fragile.
Fragile is distributed via Microsofts package manager NuGet. We refer to this page for detailed descriptions on how to get started/use NuGet. Here is a link to the Fragile NuGet package. You can grab a copy of the library on NuGet by running:
By Package Manager (PM):
Install-Package FragileBy .NET CLI:
dotnet add package FragileFind more, including a runnable example application, under the Getting Started topic in the documentation.
To learn more about Fragile, check out the documentation - you'll find information there on the most common scenarios. If Fragile isn't working the way you expect, you may find the troubleshooting guide useful.
Fragile has an active and helpful community who are happy to help point you in the right direction or work through any issues you might encounter. You can get in touch via:
- Stack Overflow
- Discord — this is the best place to start if you have a question
We welcome bug reports and suggestions through our issue tracker here on GitHub.
Would you like to help make Fragile even better? We keep a list of issues that are approachable for newcomers under the solved label (accessible only when logged into GitHub). Before starting work on a pull request, we suggest commenting on, or raising, an issue on the issue tracker so that we can help and coordinate efforts.
When contributing please keep in mind our Code of Conduct.
Fragile is copyright © 2025 Fragile Contributors - Provided under the MIT License.