Welcome

Welcome to Magico!

Magico is a C# library that allows you to pull some magical tricks on a variety of things, such as IEnumerable instances and file magic investigation.

Release history

Below is the release history of the library:

February 15, 2026

v1.7.0.1

Updated libraries

January 12, 2026

v1.7

Added support for more file types

Updated libmagic

December 18, 2025

v1.6

Added support for more file types

Updated libmagic

October 27, 2025

v1.5.2

General improvements

October 25, 2025

v1.5.1

General improvements

July 3, 2025

v1.5

Added localized strings

May 25, 2025

v1.4.1

Added more supported number types

May 4, 2025

v1.4

Added reflection tools straight from Nitrocid

Added array sorting and shuffling (again from Nitrocid)

April 18, 2025

v1.3.4

Updated libmagic

Updated libraries

February 28, 2025

v1.3.3

Updated libraries

December 19, 2024

v1.3.2

Updated libraries

December 3, 2024

v1.3.1

Updated libmagic

November 23, 2024

v1.3.0.1

Updated libmagic

November 16, 2024

v1.3

Updated libmagic

October 17, 2024

v1.2.4

Updates to libraries that utilize System.Text.Json

October 7, 2024

v1.2.3

Added more magic numbers

Updates to the libmagic codebase

September 4, 2024

v1.2.2

Added nullable support

August 30, 2024

v1.2.1

Added more file types

General improvements and bug fixes

August 24, 2024

v1.2

Added Terminaux extensions

August 19, 2024

v1.1.2

Updated SpecProbe to 3.0.0

August 13, 2024

v1.1.1.2

Updated libraries

August 12, 2024

v1.1.1.1

Re-compiled libmagic for Linux 64-bit

August 11, 2024

v1.1.1

Removed 32-bit support

Starting from Magico v1.1.1, 32-bit support has been removed. If you still want to target 32-bit platforms in your applications, you can use v1.1.0.1 or older, but you'll miss out on all the new features and the improvements. We advise you to take out 32-bit support as soon as you can.

August 5, 2024

v1.1.0.1

General improvements

August 5, 2024

v1.1

Added more file magic numbers

General improvements

August 1, 2024

v1.0.3

Used SpecProbe.Loader

Updated all libraries

July 28, 2024

v1.0.2

Added support for .NET Standard 2.0

General improvements

July 10, 2024

v1.0.1

Added more files to the magic database

Added Windows ARM64 support

May 16, 2024

v1.0

The initial release of the library is now live!