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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