<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5e1a5450-e402-4f9b-aea2-ec32b6e10870/DC3CBC41-CCF7-40D7-9135-86FD758C5112/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2007/10/02/utilities-net-1-0-released.aspx" href="http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2007/10/02/utilities-net-1-0-released.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">james.newtonking.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2007/10/02/utilities-net-1-0-released.aspx"><H2 class="entryviewheading">Utilities.NET 1.0 released</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2007/10/02/utilities-net-1-0-released.aspx"><P><IMG width="48" height="48" border="0" align="right" mce_src="http://james.newtonking.com/BlogFiles/Utilities.NET1.0released_13315/icon.gif" alt="Homer: Listen, what would you say if I told you a woman did most of the work? Kent Brockman: I'd have this gazebo torn down and built into a coffin...for your manhood. Homer: (Shrieks) Kent Brockman: Why did my hypothetical scenario scare you so? Homer: Uh, like all manly men, I have a vivid imagination. Kent Brockman: Well said! Let's take off our shirts and wrestle." title="Homer: Listen, what would you say if I told you a woman did most of the work? Kent Brockman: I'd have this gazebo torn down and built into a coffin...for your manhood. Homer: (Shrieks) Kent Brockman: Why did my hypothetical scenario scare you so? Homer: Uh, like all manly men, I have a vivid imagination. Kent Brockman: Well said! Let's take off our shirts and wrestle." src="http://james.newtonking.com/BlogFiles/Utilities.NET1.0released_13315/icon.gif" /> Utilities.NET is a collection of helper classes and components for quickly solving common .NET programming tasks. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2007/10/02/utilities-net-1-0-released.aspx"><P>The library is pretty large, currently 117 classes, 300ish unit tests and many, many methods. When I'm developing I have a habit of throwing what is generic in helper classes and Utilities.NET is a combination of many of them times nearly 5 years of .NET development. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2007/10/02/utilities-net-1-0-released.aspx"><P>here is a brief summary of what Utilities.NET covers: </p> <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Collections </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Configuration </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Type converters </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Database </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Email </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Files and streams </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Events </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Validation </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Reflection </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Resources </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Services </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Testing </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Text </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Threading </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Web and ASP.NET </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Xml</LI></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2007/10/02/utilities-net-1-0-released.aspx">Documentation for Utilities.NET is currently quite light</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2007/10/02/utilities-net-1-0-released.aspx"><P><B><A mce_href="http://www.codeplex.com/Utilities" target="_blank" href="http://www.codeplex.com/Utilities">Utilities.NET CodePlex Project</A></B> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2007/10/02/utilities-net-1-0-released.aspx"><P><B><A mce_href="http://www.codeplex.com/Utilities/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx" target="_blank" href="http://www.codeplex.com/Utilities/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx">Utilities.NET 1.0 Download</A></B> - Utilities.NET source code and binaries</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DC3CBC41-CCF7-40D7-9135-86FD758C5112/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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