Overview

.NET Assemblies that integrate and expands on various advanced solutions for DataBinding, Reflection, UI Wrapping and more. Fuel your .NET applications with RAD techniques and ready-to-use code that picks up where the .NET framework left off.

DevFuel.Core.dll Features

• Generic Tuple class for use in Collections (for pre-.NET 4.0 versions)
• "Lookup" Properties system. I.e. A DataRow uses its foreign key relationship to determine what values a field can have (in a PropertyGrid)
• Support for sorting and filtering collections of standard objects (As opposed to only DataRow objects) in DataGridView controls
• XML helper routines
  • Validate (with or without error/warning logging) XML using an XSD file
  • Transform XML using an XSLT scripts (with or without warning/error logging)
• ClickOnce deployment support classes
• Hash and symmetric encryption support classes/wrappers
• CredUI PInvoke Wrapper
• Threading Task object for use with asynchronous UI
• System.Version matching class for verifying and matching version strings of the form "A.B.C.D"
• .NET Framework v2.0 Support
  • Can build and run against the .NET 2.0 framework
  • Most utility classes are available at this level
  • See the net2-0 repository
• .NET Framework v3.0 Support
  • Can build and run against the .NET 3.0 framework
  • See the net3-0 repository
• .NET Framework v3.5 Support
  • Can build and run against the .NET 3.5 framework
  • Advanced strongly-typed Data Support through extension methods
    • DataTable Merging
    • Generalized TableAdapter handling of Fill, Update, Transactions, etc.
    • DataRow "wrappers" for customizable use of DataRows in a PropertyGrid control or other data binding scenario.
  • See the net3-5 repository

• .NET Framework v4.0 Support

  • Can build and run against the .NET 4.0 framework
  • See the dev repository (primary development repository)
  • Published, tested features will be pushed to the default repository

    DevFuel.Core.UI.dll Features

• An augmentation of the System.Windows.Forms Namespace

• UITypeEditors for PropertyGrid designer support
  • Lookup Property Support (DataTable and DataRelation awareness)
  • Open file dialog editor for string type
  • Save file dialog editor for string type
  • Generic Modal Dialog editor using ellipsis button and launching designer generated form
  • Generic drop down style editor displaying designer generated UserControl
• Double-buffered TableLayoutPanel
• ExceptionBox for displaying exceptions in a user-friendly format (better than MessageBox)
• InputBox for collecting user input in a customizable way
• MessagesBox for displaying multiple messages in a coherent manner
• PropertyGridBox to allow display and edit of the public properties of any object in a dialog
• PropertyGridEx to workaround some of the shortcomings of the PropertyGrid control
• ReportViewer to nicely display XML+XSLT=HTML style reports (Beats Crystal Reports all to heck!)
• RichTextBox to add formatting enhancements and time-savers
• TaskProgressBox for displaying the progress and status of asynchronous tasks
• Theming support for assemblies called from native applications

DevFuel.Core.Net.dll Features

• An augmentation of the System.Net namespace
• PInvoke wrapper for Querying Network Adapter details (Such as MAC address)

DevFuel.NAnt.Tasks.dll Features

• Custom NAnt Tasks
  • Google Code Upload
  • VersionFile task to read and optionally increment a file containing a version of the form "A.B.C.D"
  • YuiCompressor task to utilize a .NET port of the YUI Compressor to minify CSS and Javascript files to reduce size
• Custom NAnt Functions
  • file::read-all-text(path) to allow for templating files using filtersets
  • file::read-all-xml-escaped-text(path) which does the same as the previous function, but uses XML escaping to sanitize any special XML characters in the file