Nuv Tools Common Library

Common library for Web, Desktop and Mobile (MAUI) applications.

Overview

NuvTools.Common is a cross-platform utility library for .NET 8 and .NET 9, designed to streamline development for Web, Desktop, and Mobile (MAUI) applications. It provides a rich set of reusable components, extension methods, and helpers that address frequent programming needs, focusing on consistency, safety, and productivity.

Main Features Overview

NuvTools.Common provides a suite of utilities and helpers to simplify development across .NET 8 and .NET 9 projects, including Web, Desktop, and Mobile (MAUI) applications. Its main features are:

1. ResultWrapper

• Purpose: Standardizes operation result handling with support for success, error, and validation outcomes.
• Key Types: IResult, IResult<T>, Result, Result<T>, MessageDetail, ResultType.
• Highlights: Factory methods for creating results, structured messages, and easy integration with logging.

2. NumbersExtensions

• Purpose: Safely parse strings to numeric types (long, int, short, decimal) with null or zero fallback.
• Highlights: Reduces boilerplate and handles invalid input gracefully.

3. ContentTypes

• Purpose: Centralized management of file content types using annotated enums.
• Key Types: ContentTypes.Enumeration with extension methods for retrieving file extension, MIME type, and friendly name.
• Highlights: Simplifies file handling and metadata retrieval.

4. Web Utilities

• Purpose: Streamlines query string generation and parsing for web APIs.
• Key Methods: GetQueryString(), ParseQueryString().
• Highlights: Supports complex objects, collections, and edge cases in query string manipulation.

5. Serialization Support

• Purpose: Facilitates JSON serialization and deserialization, including support for enums and nested models.
• Highlights: Handles complex object graphs and collections.

6. Enums and Attribute Helpers

• Purpose: Simplifies working with enums and attributes, such as retrieving display names, descriptions, and custom metadata.
• Highlights: Extension methods for extracting information from enums using attributes like DisplayAttribute.

7. Date and Time Utilities

• Purpose: Provides helpers for parsing, formatting, and manipulating dates and times.
• Highlights: Methods for converting between different date/time representations and handling nullable values.

8. Collection and LINQ Extensions

• Purpose: Adds convenience methods for working with collections, lists, and LINQ queries.
• Highlights: Safe access, filtering, mapping, and transformation utilities.

9. IO and File Helpers

• Purpose: Facilitates file operations, such as reading, writing, and managing file paths and content.
• Highlights: Utilities for handling file streams, directories, and file type detection.

10. String Extensions

• Purpose: Enhances string manipulation with methods for formatting, parsing, validation, and conversion.
• Highlights: Null-safe operations, trimming, case conversion, and more.

11. Reflection Utilities

• Purpose: Provides helpers for runtime type inspection and dynamic member access.
• Highlights: Methods for getting property values, types, and attributes dynamically.

12. Validation Helpers

• Purpose: Supports data validation scenarios, including model and property validation.
• Highlights: Methods for checking required fields, data annotations, and custom validation logic.

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Benefits:

• Consistent patterns for error/success handling.
• Strongly-typed APIs for safer code.
• Reduces repetitive code and runtime errors.
• Designed for modern .NET and C# features.

For more details, refer to the XML documentation in the source code or explore the relevant namespaces.