CSharpSwissArmyKnife

Handy C# extensions and utilities. See unit tests for specifics.

ExpandoObject Extensions

AddProperties

Combine properties from several objects. Simple and effective when type information is not needed by the consumer. For example, sending arguments to Dapper.

var foo = new { Foo = "Foo" };
var bar = new { Bar = "Bar" };
var baz = new { Baz = "Baz" };

// result contains all 3 objects' properties.
dynamic result = new ExpandoObject().AddProperties(foo).AddProperties(bar).AddProperties(baz);

Object Extensions

DeepClone

Create a clone of an object including nested objects. The clone is a full [deep] cone, not a copy of references.

class Foo{
    public Bar Bar{get;set;}
}
class Bar{
    public string Baz{get;set;}
}
var foo = new Foo { Bar = new Bar { Baz = "Foo-Bar-Baz" } };

// fooClone is a deep copy of foo.
var fooClone = foo.DeepClone();

CopyProperties

Copies public properties from the source to the destination where the name and type match.

class Foo{
    public string Bar{get;set;}
}

var source = new Foo{Bar = "source"};
var destination = new Foo{Bar = "destination"};

destination.CopyProperties(source);

// source.Bar == "destination"

Byte array Extensions

FromArray

Get an encoded string from a byte array.

var bytes = new byte[] { 0x66, 0x6f, 0x6f };
var myString = bytes.FromArray(); // (default UTF8 encoding)

// myString == "foo"

String Extensions

Get an encoded string from a byte array.

ToArray

var bytes = "foo".ToArray(); // (defaults to UTF8 encoding)

// bytes == new byte[] { 0x66, 0x6f, 0x6f }