C# Common Library.

Question

Hello and thanks for any assistance.

I'm hoping to find an open source .net common library, but I'm having a hard time finding one.

What I'm looking for a is something that contains : Logging, Caching, String Manipulation, Config Reading, ext?!?.

Do you know if anything like this exists or is this more likely something that I will need to create myself?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Use Microsoft Enterprise Application Blocks

Get it from here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc467894.aspx

Source code here

http://www.codeplex.com/entlib

Answer 2

• Microsoft Enterprise Library - Built by Microsoft, source code is available
• Spring.NET - Open source development framework

Answer 3

All that is built into the framework, so all you really need is mono.

Answer 4

Kev:

Just a bit more elaboration, I've spent quite a bit of time trying to reuse code from other frameworks: Here is a breakdown based on feature sets:

Infrastructures frameworks( config, logging, caching, etc)

1. SpringFramework.NET - ( Port of the popular Java SpringFramework )

2. Microsoft Enterprise Library - Microsoft "answer" to SpringFramework.

Frameworks providing ActiveRecord or Ioc(Inversion Of Control) or Code generation:

1. Castle Project http://www.castleproject.org/index.html

2. SubSonic http://subsonicproject.com/

3. NetTiers http://nettiers.com

Finally, you may find many other smaller libraries, frameworks on CodePlex.com Some that are of note:

1. CommonLibrary.NET http://commonlibrarynet.codeplex.com/

2. DotNet Commons http://dotnetcommons.codeplex.com/

Answer 5

Logging - have a look at Log4net