The SixPack rapid development library is a collection of classes for rapid development on the .NET/Mono platform. It has been built with medium to large scale sites in mind, and supports high performance requirements (thousands of concurrent users per server.)

Main Features

• Almost completely transparent Caching system (Simple, thread safe cache that can be used easily on existing systems, or a more advanced Caching system with prefetching)
• Full, enterprise grade, stored procedure support (including deadlock retries, stored procedure timings)
• Internationalization support (Portugal only, submissions welcome)
• Minimal, high performance logging class supporting filesystem and email
• CAPTCHA generator
• High quality image sizing (can perform scaling and thumbnailing for sites in real time)
• XML over HTTP client (includes support for XSLTs, results as DataTable or Class)
• Code Generation (programmatically define a class and output source code)
• Small RSA implementation (generate billions of unique short codes for promotions in minutes)
• Text Manipulation (string clipping, sanitization)
• Emailing system (based on CDO and extending it to work with streams)
• Validation (Email address, Credit Cards, ...)

The library has been build upon solid architectural principles:

• DON'T MAKE ME THINK -- We strive to be invisible and do not surprise developers.
• KISS -- We strive to keep everything simple and stupid.
• YAGNI -- We strive to give you only what you are going to need.

General Stuff

• 73 new classes, 15,000 fully commented lines of code
• FxCop 1.36 compliant
• Unit tested
• Field tested on dozens of projects
• Load tested
• Standards compliant