.NET Modeling Framework (NMF)

August 29, 2025 by .NET Foundation Board

📂 .NET Modeling Framework (NMF) is a framework to support model-driven engineering using .NET technologies. It consists of several subprojects that ease various model-driven tasks, such as generating code for model representation, or languages to support model transformation, synchronization and optimization.

NuGet Packages
There are a range of NuGet-packages available that bundle some of the functionality of NMF. These packages are potentially more stable than the source code, but may not contain the latest features of NMF. The packages are:

  • NMF-Expressions Downloads: Contains the NMF library for incremental computation. This package has no other dependencies and can even be used independently of the modeling framework.

  • NMF-Repository Downloads: Conatins the repository management of NMF (depends on NMF-Expressions).

  • NMF-Basics Downloads: Contains the latter two plus a code generator to generate model representation code from any Ecore or NMeta metamodel. The code generator integrates with the Nuget Package Console.

  • NMF-Expressions-Utilities Downloads: Contains some utility classes for NMF Expressions such as dictionary of incremental values.

  • NMF-Transformations Downloads: Contains the model transformation language NTL used in NMF.

  • NMF-Synchronizations Downloads: Contains the incremental, uni- and bidirectional model transformation language NMF Synchronizations.

🔗 More info: https://nmfcode.github.io/