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.

Table of contents

• M-Files Product
• M-Files Portals and Forums
• Development
  • M-Files Reference documentation
  • Development resources
  • Visual Studio Extensions
  • M-Files COM API
  • M-Files REST API
  • M-Files UI Extensibility
  • Vault Application Framework
  • Libraries and open source
  • NuGET Packages
• Misc

M-Files Product

• M-Files Product Versions
• M-Files Solution Catalog
• M-Files Consulting Applications

M-Files Portals and Forums

• M-Files Community portal
• M-Files Customer Support
• M-Files Forums on Community Portal
• M-Files Developer Portal
• M-Files Developer Community on Yammer
• M-Files Partner Portal
• M-Files Partner Vault
• M-Files Consulting

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

• M-Files developer Portal
• M-Files on GitHub
• M-Files samples and libraries

Visual Studio Extensions

• Vault Application Framework Visual Studio Template

M-Files COM API

• Official COM API Reference
• RETIRING COM/.NET API forum on Yammer M-Files Developer Community
• COM API guidance on M-Files Developer Portal

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

• Official UI Extensibility Framework reference
• UI Extensibility Framework guidances on M-Files Developer Portal
• RETIRING UI Extensibility Framework forum on Yammer M-Files Developer Community

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)

Misc

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