VPKSoft.Utils
Some utilities I seem to use in many of my applications.
These sort of lay a path for further development to avoid copy-paste programming and easier code management.
The only thing that is going to remain stable in this library is it's backwards compatibility, so if a method's insides are re-programmed due a bug or for an improvement you may update your application by replacing the library.
There will be no instructions for this one, however as almost always a full XML documentation is available
for public / private methods / properties.
Features
- Current version 1.0.3.6 (04.09.2018)
- The pack is divided to 29 different classes which are:
- BasicSecurity - Helper methods for System.Security.ProtectedData class
- Bytes - Helper methods for byte <-> string conversion and hexadecimal string <-> byte array conversion
- ProgramArgumentCollection - A simple class to get program arguments and to get their values if the format is arg=blah or --arg=blah, etc.
- DBUtils - I like to do SQL the old fashioned way, by writing! So some utilities to help in that cause
- Misc - Currently just enumerations
- Paths - Some utilities to application related paths such as the installation directory and settings directory
- Utils - Non-categorized utilities, currently about detecting to host application type (WPF? WinForms? ASP.NET?)
- Strings - String extension utils, mostly trimming
- VPKNml - A simple library for storing data, setting, etc.. in and UTF8 encoded file
- MainAppInfo - A simple class to get information of the main application. It doesn't matter if you call this class from an assembly or from the application itself.
- AppRunning - A way to detect if your application is already running using Mutex and an unique string.
- HumanActivity - A WinForm class for monitoring when a user goes idle (no mouse or keyboard activity in a given time).
- RemotingMessageServer, RemotingMessageClient - A simple implementation of .NET remoting (inter-process communication) using TCP protocol.
- NetSH - netsh utilities to ease WCF permission settings
- UriUrlUtils - Some URL parsing utilities such as if your WCF endpoint address is http://localhost:991/myService the URL is can be parsed to netsh format like http://+:991/
- SysIcons - Possibility to access system icons and to get them as scaled bitmaps
- BuiltInWindowsAccountsLocalize - Possibility to localize Windows built in account names
- ObjectSerialization - A class containing helper methods for object serialization
- FileEnumerator class which can search for directories containing certain types of files, etc..
- TimeTaker class to help measure times for a specified code block execution.
Requirements
- A Microsoft® Windows® supporting .NET Framework v.4.5
- LGPL v3 compatible application
Changes
- v.1.0.0.1 (03.10.2015)
- Added some string extension utils, mostly trimming (Strings).
- Added a simple library for storing data, setting, etc.. in and UTF8 encoded file (VPKNml).
- v.1.0.0.2 (20.10.2015)
- Added a simple class to get information of the main application. It doesn't matter if you call this class from an assembly or from the application itself (MainAppInfo).
- v.1.0.0.3 (03.11.2015)
- Added some data deletion routines to vnml (VPKNml)
- v.1.0.0.4 (06.01.2016)
- Added AppRunning - A way to detect if your application is already running using Mutex and an unique string.
- Added HumanActivity - A WinForm class for monitoring when a user goes idle (no mouse or keyboard activity in a given time).
- Added RemotingMessageServer, RemotingMessageClient - A simple implementation of .NET remoting (inter-process communication) using TCP protocol.
- v.1.0.1.0 (04.02.2018)
- Added NetSH - netsh utilities to ease WCF permission settings
- Added UriUrlUtils - some URL parsing utilities such as if your WCF endpoint address is http://localhost:991/myService the URL is can be parsed to netsh format like http://+:991/
- Added SysIcons - possibility to access system icons and to get them as scaled bitmaps
- v.1.0.2.0 (23.07.2018)
- Added WM_MOUSEMOVE to the HumanActivity class
- Added ObjectSerialization containing helper methods to for object serialization and deserialization
- Added class BuiltInWindowsAccountsLocalize to localize Windows built in account names
- Bug fixes for the netsh
- v.1.0.3.0 (02.08.2018)
- Added FileEnumerator class which can search for directories containing certain types of files, etc..
- v.1.0.3.1 (04.08.2018)
- Fixed bugs from the FileEnumerator class which can search for directories containing certain types of files, etc..
- v.1.0.3.4 (09.08.2018)
- Added asynchronous methods to the FileEnumerator class.
- v.1.0.3.6 (04.09.2018)
- Added TimeTaker class to the library..
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