Net4x.UtilityLibrary 1.5.1.26262

Net4x.UtilityLibrary

General-purpose helpers for .NET Framework 3.5 → .NET Standard 2.0: file system, zip, processes, reflection, networking, XML/HTML and string utilities.

• Targets: net35, net40, net45, net461, netstandard2.0
• Strong-named, SourceLink enabled
• Author: Piero Viano — Copyright (c) Piero Viano. All rights reserved.

dotnet add package Net4x.UtilityLibrary

Most services are exposed as SomeUtility.Instance (interface-typed singleton); the rest are extension methods in the UtilityLibrary namespace.

Features

¹ not on net35/net40 · ² net461 and netstandard2.0 only

Examples

using UtilityLibrary;
using UtilityLibrary.FileSystem;
using UtilityLibrary.Process;
using UtilityLibrary.Zip;

// Zip a folder, skipping build output
ZipArchiver.Instance.ZipFiles(@"C:\out\src.zip", @"C:\src", false, @"bin\*", @"obj\*");

// Filter a file list with wildcard path patterns
var kept = FilePatternMatcher.Instance.ExcludePattens(files, new[] { @"bin\debug\*.pdb" });

// Run a process, wait up to 10 s, read its output
var process = await ProcessUtility.Instance.RunProcess(workDir, "git", "status", 10000,
    ignoreTimeOutError: false, stringToSearch: null, threadSleepBeforeProcessKill: 0,
    logToStdErr: false, hideProcessWindow: true);
string? output = ProcessUtility.Instance.Tuple?.Output;

// Run several commands, stop at the first non-zero exit code
bool ok = await BatchExecuter.Instance.RunScriptsFromTuples(false, true,
    new ProcessExecutionInfo(workDir, "dotnet", "restore"),
    new ProcessExecutionInfo(workDir, "dotnet", "build"));

// Expressions and strings
string path = ((Expression<Func<Order, string>>)(o => o.Customer.Name)).GetPropertyPath(); // "customer.name"
string phrase = "Tbl_OrderLines".ToPhrase("Tbl_");                                          // "Order lines"

// Backup / restore a file (suffix from appSettings "OldSuffix", default ".bak")
BackupUtility.Instance.CreateBackupFile(@"C:\app\app.config", deleteSourceFile: false);
BackupUtility.Instance.RestoreBackupFile(@"C:\app\app.config");

Configuration keys (appSettings / command line)

Dependencies

Net4x.BaseTypes, Net4x.Configuration.Library, Net4x.CoreLibrary.Files, Net4x.CoreLibrary.PassingProperties, Net4x.IoCLibrary; System.Management on netstandard2.0.