Miscellaneous Utility Library

Every so often, someone on the newsgroup asks about something which doesn't exist in the framework, but which I think should. Sometimes, I'll write some code for them to plug the gap. Just occasionally, I'll tidy up the code, add XML documentation comments etc, and include it in my miscellaneous utility library. This library will, of course, grow over time.

Due to the nature of the library, some of the code may not have been particularly rigorously tested. You are strongly advised to give it a thorough testing before including it in any important code.

Contents

The library currently contains the following items:

• MiscUtil.Text.Utf32String - contains much of System.String, but with a UTF-32 encoding (rather than UTF-16). This means surrogate pairs are counted as a single character.
• MiscUtil.Conversion.DoubleConverter - code to show the full true value of a double.
• MiscUtil.Conversion.EndianBitConverter - effectively BitConverter, but either LittleEndian or BigEndian, depending on which you pick.
• MiscUtil.IO.EndianBinary{Writer/Reader} - like System.IO.Binary{Writer.Reader}, but with configurable endianness.
• MiscUtil.Threading.ThreadPool - a simple configurable thread pool, allowing you to separate your own threads from the ones in the system thread pool.
• MiscUtil.Threading.ThreadController - a simple control system for worker threads

History

• August 24th 2004: Initial offering on website

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