alifintcev / utilities

Simple C# library for universal utilities for things like logging.

LordDesign.Utilities

This is a small but useful class library for universal utilities such as error logging.

Dependencies

• ELMAH
• JSON.NET
• Encryptamajig (which has another dependency: NuGet)

Logger.cs

This class simply wraps the basic ELMAH exception logger and will log to the elmah.axd source if the current context is an http application, and to a file if it is not. This is useful for business logic layers in which a class's usage may be over http or in a service.

Usage

using LordDesign.Utilities;

public class MyClass
{
    public void DoMyThing()
    {
        try
        {
            // Todo: Do something...
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Logger.Log(e);
        }
    }
}

Now you can do all of your exception logging with just one simple line of code.

Interfaces

IPaginable - provides an interface indicating that the implementing collection class will perform the proper Skip/Take functions to return a certain page of the results.

IEachified - Indicates that a collection can perform a delegate on each item in its collection apart from the mission IEnumerable.ForEach() (for which I also have an extension in this library in Extensions.cs)

DataManager

A handy generic DataManager abstract base class for your business layer that serves to enforce a CRUD contract between your business entities and your data layer. Useful for pagination as well.

Mailbot

A multithreaded SMTP queued mail sender, has a throttle based on Google Apps maximums for mail frequency received at a single account.

Crypt

Bi-directional encryption methods useful for storing credit cards or saving passwords in configuration files. (Not recommend for use with user's site credentials as those should be one-way, and this encryption is random so two identical strings when encrypted will never match. By design.)

RssConverter

This class makes it easy to download an RSS feed and parse it. It reads the data with LinqToXml and can output it in JSON format for easy portability. You can utilize the PostFilter delegate to filter the results even further.

RestRouteHandler

A REST route handler that can be used in Global.asax to convert a REST url request to a query-string name-value pair on the server side. (I will probably need to provide examples for its usage.)

License

LordDesign.Utilities by Lord Design (http://lorddesign.net) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. You may use it for commercial purposes, but if you modify it, the modified version must likewise be open-source.