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awesome-m-files

A curated list of M-Files developer topics

Awesome M-Files

A curated list of delightful M-Files resources.

“M-Files is the intelligent document management system. With M-Files, organizations organize all their documents and information so that they can easily find, manage and secure them. M-Files is the smartest DMS you’ve ever seen.”

My primary focus with M-Files as a technical consultant and software developer is the M-Files application platform to build integrations and solutions that interact with M-Files (cloud) vaults.

M-Files Product

M-Files Portals and Forums

Development

M-Files Reference documentation

M-Files COM API Reference - The M-Files COM/.NET API can be used from any software that can interact with COM
M-Files Web Service REST API Reference - M-Files Web Service allows programmatic access to M-Files through a REST-like interface
M-Files Vault Application Framework Reference - The Vault Application Framework was created within M-Files to provide a better way to develop and maintain solutions with .NET code.
M-Files User Interface Extensibility Framework - The M-Files UI Extensibility Framework is a collection of features, APIs, program execution environments and libraries that allow external add-ins (M-Files Applications) to be used for modifying M-Files behavior.

Development resources

Visual Studio Extensions

Vault Application Framework Visual Studio Template

M-Files COM API

M-Files REST API

Official REST API reference
REST API guidance on M-Files Developer Portal
RETIRING Web Service (RESTful API) forum on Yammer M-Files Developer Community
M-Files MFaaP.MFWSClient - M-Files C# M-Files Web Service Wrapper (‘not for production’)

M-Files UI Extensibility

Vault Application Framework

RETIRING Vault Application Framework forum on Yammer M-Files Developer Community
M-Files Vault Application Framework Extensions (Community) - a community-driven set of functionality that extends the base M-Files Vault Application Framework (not directly supported by M-Files)
CtrlVAF by Solution Management - Move logic out of the standard VaultApplication class into separate classes that can handle these tasks for the VaultApplication class. The design is based on the dispatcher/command

Libraries and open source

M-Files Vault Application Framework Extensions (Community) - a community-driven set of functionality that extends the base M-Files Vault Application Framework (not directly supported by M-Files)
M-Files MFaaP.MFWSClient - M-Files C# M-Files Web Service Wrapper (‘not for production’)
M-Files COM API Extensions (Community) - The following helper library is a community-driven set of functionality that extends the base M-Files COM API (not directly supported by M-Files)
M-Files Samples and Libraries - This solution contains a series of libraries and samples to help developers build applications using M-Files
M-Files /visma-severa-connector - Visma Severa -connector reference implementation
M-Files Custom External Object Type Data Sources - Example M-Files Custom External Object Type Data Sources
CtrlVAF by Solution Management - Move logic out of the standard VaultApplication class into separate classes that can handle these tasks for the VaultApplication class. The design is based on the dispatcher/command pattern.

NuGET Packages

All M-Files related NuGET packages at nuget.org
MFiles.VAF - Framework for developing M-Files Vault Applications
MFiles.VAF.Configuration - Interfaces and utilities for making an M-Files Vault Application configurable using MFAdmin
Interop.MFilesAPI - interop DLL to use M-Files COM API from .NET applications
MFaaP.MFWSClient - Sample wrapper for M-Files Web Service
MFiles.VAF.Extensions - Community-driven extensions for the M-Files Vault Application Framework
VAF.Extensions.Community - Community-built .NET extension methods for use with the M-Files Vault Application Framework.
COMAPI.Extensions.Community - Community-built .NET extension methods for use with the M-Files COM API. Targets .NET 4.6 and .NET Standard 2.0.
Serilog.Sinks.MFilesSysUtilsEventLog - A Serilog sink wrapper to write to the Windows EventLog using the SysUtils.ReportXToEventLog() in an M-Files Vault Application.
Serilog.Sinks.DelegatingText - A Serilog sink for writing to a delegate (used in a vault application for a to-be-published Serilog sink)