PublicDomain
A completely free, public domain collection of oft-needed code and packages for .NET. Features include Time Zone support, Logging API, Dynamic Code Evaluation (C#, VB.Net), Global Assembly Cache (GAC) API, Rss, Atom, and OPML APIs, Screen scraping API, and a milieu of various utilities for strings, arrays, cryptography, and much, much more.

PublicDomain binaries and source code are... in the Public Domain (surprise surprise). Therefore, there is no license, so the code (or any part of it) may be included even in corporate applications. Public domain code has no authority, and is provided "AS IS," without express or implied warranty of any kind.


Goals
Open source libraries in .NET have two problems or annoyances:
.NET projects and utilities are scattered, difficult to deploy and integrate, difficult to find, difficult to contribute to, and,
Licenses are confusing or restrictive.

This package solves these two problems as follows:
This package becomes a "catch all" for all different types of code, so that there is no dependency hierarchy, and
This code is in the Public Domain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain), meaning that the code has no legal authority, will ask nothing for its use, and has absolutely no restrictions (as opposed to the GPL)! The code (or any part of it) may be included even in corporate applications. Public domain code is provided "AS IS," without express or implied warranty of any kind.
Download Instructions
Go to the Releases tab.
To reference PublicDomain, download PublicDomain.dll, install it, and put it in your project or place it in the GAC and then reference it (by default, binaries and source are installed in C:\Program Files\Public Domain\).
High Level Feature List
This is a bullet point distillation of the full feature list below:
Time Zone support
Logging API
Dynamic Code Evaluation (C#, VB.Net)
Global Assembly Cache (GAC) API
Unzipper Class
Rss, Atom, and OPML APIs
Screen scraping API
Milieu of various utilities for strings, arrays, cryptography
And More!
Feature List
This is an (undetailed, dated, and partial) sampling of some of the code included in the current release:
Dynamic code evaluation in C#, VB.NET
Example: PublicDomain.Dynacode.CodeUtilities.EvalSnippet(Language.CSharp, "1*337")
First pure C# implementation of the Olson Time Zone database
Programmatic access to RULE and ZONE information, instead of obfuscated C and C code
Abstracted and powerful Logging API, with formatting interfaces and extensions such as Composite loggers
Generic Pair, Triple, ReadOnlyDictionary, and ReadOnlyICollection classes
API for getting a list of programs from the Add/Remove Program list as a collection of IInstallProgram instances. These wrappers include methods like Uninstall()
API for manipulating the GAC (Global Assembly Cache), including installing/uninstalling assemblies into/from the GAC, as well as listing or searching for assemblies
Iso* classes such as Iso8601 for various parsing facilities
Cryptography Utilities, String utilities
Archiver class
Uses J# libraries to extract zip file entries
Win32 class
Provides PInvoke wrappers to WIN32 functions
Methods: LogoffCurrentUser, Shutdown, RestartWindows
ProcessHelper class
Wrapper around System.Diagnostics.Process which provides some convenience methods but most importantly deal with the complex nature of getting both StandardOutput and StandardError streams concurrently
FileSystemUtilities class
Methods: SaveInputStreamToFile, CombineTrackbacksInPath
ObjectUtilities class
SerializeObjectToBinary, DeserializeObjectFromBinary
ReflectionUtilities class
GetStrongName, FindTypeByInterface, FindInstanceByInterface
JStream class
Transparently pass a .NET System.IO.Stream class where a java.io.InputStream class is expected
JInputStream class
Transparently pass a java.io.InputStream class where a .NET System.IO.Stream class is expected
StringUtilities class
CultureConstants class
All windows culture constants
DisposableReaderWriter class
Wrapper around the .NET ReaderWriterLock to more easily use a reader/writer lock
InvariantCultureContext class
The class can be used in a using() {} block or a try, finally block with a dispose call and allows for setting the current Thread's culture to the invariant culture during the length of the scope. This is useful when it is critical to have invariant culture rules, for example, if you are dependent that a real number is of the form X.XXXX, then you will be thrown off if there is a European culture.
RegexUtilities class
Common regular expressions
ScreenScraper class
Help in managing GET and POST requests to websites, including cookie handling, HTTP redirects, and output parsing
Various ISO Format wrapper classes
Iso3166, Iso6709
LatitudeLongitudePoint class
UnitedStatesUtilities class and USState class
Static list of U.S. states in object form