Craig's Utility Library

At present I'm debating adding 3rd party libraries as dependencies. I'm leaning towards no at the moment (I actually had a much longer response that I'm going to post on my website that gives my reasons on that). But basically the idea of this ... [More] library was to just rely on .Net and maybe Win32/COM objects. As such I'm probably never going to directly plug in 3rd party libraries. Even with certain libraries being blessed, it's still a third party dependency. That being said, I'm considering a rewrite of certain sections (not this next version but maybe a version after that). The front end extension methods would remain mostly the same (maybe simplified a bit on some of them but I'm generally happy with the front end), but the back end would be modified. The general idea is to make it so that people can plug in their own libraries and use the extensions as a shell in certain situations. So if you wanted Json.Net to do the serialization (or ServiceStack or whatever), but wanted to use the extension methods that I have here then you'd be able to. I'm still designing how that would work though. Anyway, if you have feedback or suggestions, I'm 100% open to it. And if you do want to make a fork and add Json.Net serialization that's great (part of the reason I switched to Mercurial was so people could do that sort of stuff), but I'm probably not going to merge it into the main library(well until I get the plugin system working anyway). James Craig [Less]

Hi: Firstly this is a fantastic library, thanks. Are there any plans now that asp.net mvc4 has been released to change the JSon serialization code to use JSon.net? I'm happy to do this and submit a push. Cheers Sean.

Utilities.IO.ExtensionMethods.ToXML in SerializationExtensions.cs line 156 is missing the EncodingUsing in the Save function.Comments: Fixed in latest push to source control.

Utilities.IO.ExtensionMethods.ToXML in SerializationExtensions.cs line 156 is missing the EncodingUsing in the Save function.Comments: Good catch. I'll push up a fix tonight (looks like ToSOAP and ToJSON have the same issue so I'll fix those also).

Merge

1) Fixed saving to file in ToXML, ToSOAP, and ToJSON when an Encoding is specified.

Utilities.IO.ExtensionMethods.ToXML in SerializationExtensions.cs line 156 is missing the EncodingUsing in the Save function.

1)Fixed a couple memory leaks in EmailSender.

1) Added extension method to IEnumerables that will save the entire list of objects (Utilities.ORM.ExtensionMethods).

Thanks for your quick response.Tried it and it's running - great! Michael