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NZBDrone
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*NZBDrone is currently in development. There may be severe bugs in it and at any given time it may not work at all.*

NZBDrone is a PVR for newsgroup users written in .NET 4.0. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them. It retrieves show information from theTVDB.com.

Features include:

* automatically detects new episodes
* can scan your existing library and then download any old seasons that are missing
* can watch for better versions and upgrade your existing episodes (to from TV DVD/BluRay for example)
* fully configurable episode renaming
* sends NZBs directly to SABnzbd, prioritizes and categorizes them properly
* can notify XBMC, when new episodes are downloaded
* specials and double episode support


NZBDrone makes use of the following projects:

## Platform
* [ASP.NET MVC 3.0](http://www.asp.net/mvc)
* [IIS Express](http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/868/iis-express-overview/)
* [Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0](http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17876)

## Open Source Libraries
* [jQuery](http://jquery.com)
* [Ninject](http://ninject.org/)
* [NLog](http://nlog-project.org/)
* [PetaPoco](http://www.toptensoftware.com/petapoco/)
* [MVC Mini Profiler](http://code.google.com/p/mvc-mini-profiler/)
* [Migrator.NET](https://github.com/kayone/Migrator.NET)
* [Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC](http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-mvc.aspx)

## Development Tools
* [Visual Studio 2010](http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions)
* [ReSharper 6](http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/index.html)
* [ANTS Performance Profiler](http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/)
* [NUnit](http://www.nunit.org/)
* [Moq](http://code.google.com/p/moq/)
* [NBuilder](http://nbuilder.org/)
* [Fluent Assertions](http://fluentassertions.codeplex.com/)
* [TeamCity](http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/)
* [DotCover](http://www.jetbrains.com/dotcover/)