What are your most useful yet unfamiliar .NET freeware dlls?

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What are your most useful yet unfamiliar .NET freeware dlls?

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I just recently learned about AutoMapper which I deeply regret not knowing of sooner.

What other useful (but unfamiliar) dll's are out there to make our lives easier/ our programming more efficient?

Thanks.

Edit: This question was originally also about native classes, but edited after Hans' comment (thanks).

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Ok, I'll bite: How is StringCollection better than List<string>?

Steven Sudit 2010-09-12 12:09:52

`StringCollection` dates back to before generics, so it once served a purpose but no longer does. To answer my own question: it's not better and we shouldn't use it anymore.

Steven Sudit 2010-09-12 12:17:42

ok.. Good to know. I'll edit my question. Thanks.

Oren A 2010-09-12 12:19:16

@Steven Sudit: Is that why all those `XCollection` classes exist? Like `ControlCollection`, `ImageList.ImageCollection` and what not?

Patrick 2010-09-12 12:43:58

@Patrick: Yes. We can't completely avoid them, but we can do our best.

Steven Sudit 2010-09-12 13:21:41

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