Cardboard Box Extensions

A collection of helpful extensions for general C# development.

The library is available as a NuGet package.

The library has various static classes with extensions for common methods. The classes are:

• DateTimeExtensions - Extensions for DateTime objects.
• HashExtensions - Extensions for hashing byte arrays and strings.
• HTMLExtensions - Extensions for working with HTMLAgilityPack
• LingExtensions - Extensions for Enumerable and collections
• MethodExtensions - Extensions for actions or functions
• ReflectionExtensions - Extensions for reflection, type checking, and Enums
• StreamExtensions - Extensions for working with streams
• StringExtensions - Extensions for working with strings, including Base64 encoding and decoding
• TaskExtensions - Extensions for working with Tasks and threading
• XmlExtensions - Extensions for working with XML strings and serialization

The library also has some helpful utility classes as well:

• QueueCacheItem - A class for working with lazy-loaded cache items and queuing the results.
• Response Boxing - A set of classes for wrapping responses in a common format
  • Boxed - The base class a response
  • Boxed<T> - The base class for a response with a payload of a generic
  • BoxedArray<T> - The base class for a response with a payload of an array of generics
  • BoxedError - A response with an error message
  • BoxedPage<T> - A response with an array of generics and pagination information
• RequestValidator - A fluent helper class for validating requests
• X - A helper class for creating XML elements and attributes in a compiled-react like manner.
• CollectionIterator - A helper class for iterating over collections