Code contains a bunch of extension methods for built-in types and some extra useful stuff.

It is a personal utility library, so while fairly generic, it is still tailored for specific tasks.

You probably would be better off if you built your own helper lib.

Cake (http://cakebuild.net) build tool has a nice file system abstraction; sadly, it does not work with PCL.

I really wanted to use it in portable class libraries without hassle, so almost all of Cake.IO was ripped and key classes were reworked with a small number of breaking API changes.

• Standard generic list with events before and after all modifications with ability to cancel and separate handling of batch additions/removals.
• Two simple pools:
  • typical "take instance out of the pool, put it back after you done";
  • less standard "owning" pool, which tracks provided instances and returns them back to pool when they become unused, as defined by user callback.
• Dictionary with weak-referenced values. Null values are supported.

• Check whether a type contains another type in its inheritance chain, be it interface, abstract classe or generic with parameters.
• Reverse and chain comparers.
• Invoke latests delegate targets.
• Manipulate collection values inside a dictionary more easily.
• Get value from a dictionary in a convenient way.
• Create default instance of the given type.
• Clamp numbers, do float equality checks with epsilon, normalize and remap values, find proper modulo (not to be confused with % operator), lots of stuff.
• Check sequences for equivalence.
• Randomly chose one of the elements based on their probabilities.
• �c

• Simple fluent argument checking.
• Base disposable class, helps with the standard .NET disposal pattern. Does not implement a finalizer by default.
• Ranges, with intersection and union operations.
• Reference counter.
• Xorshift rng taken from Redzen code library (https://github.com/colgreen/Redzen/).
• Few interpolation functions.
• Null checker without boxing for generic variables.

It's MIT. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, so there are few pieces of code from other libraries (and a giant chunk of code from Cake), all under MIT or Apache license.