West Wind Utilities

A general purpose utility and helper library for .NET

Installation

You can install the package from NuGet using the Visual Studio Package Manager or NuGet UI:

PM> install-package westwind.utilities

or the dotnet command line:

dotnet add package westwind.utilities

What is it?

Every .NET application requires small, common and often repeated tasks. This library is a collection of those things that I commonly need on a regular basis and have compiled over the years.

• Get it on NuGet
• Usage Documentation
• Class Documentation

It includes tools for:

• Application Configuration
  class to create code-first strongly typed configuration classes for your applications

• Lightweight ADO.NET Data Access Layer
  ideal for components or apps that need data access but don't need the bulk of Entity Framework or similar ORM

• General Purpose Utility Classes:

  • StringUtils

  • HtmlUtils

  • ReflectionUtils

  • SerializationUtils

  • DataUtils

  • FileUtils

  • TimeUtils

  • XmlUtils

  • StringSerializer

  • Expando

  • PropertyBag

  • Scheduler (for background processing)

  • Encryption

  • HttpClient (HttpWebRequest wrapper)

  • HttpUtils (Simple REST client helpers)

  • SmptClientNative (SmtpClient Wrapper)

  • DelegateFactory

and much, much more.

It's worthwhile to browse through the source code or the documentation to find out the myriad of useful functionality that is available, all in a small single assembly.

This assembly is the base for most other West Wind libraries.