DotPrimitives

My C# primitives library for adding new types and features.

Primitives Included

Added Types

• DateSpan - Represents a span of time as represented by days, months, or years, between two dates.
• WindowsFilePermission - Represents Windows file permissions.
• LineEndingFormat - Enum for representing line endings.
• DeperecatedAttribute - Attribute for marking types and members as deprecated for eventual removal.

Static Helpers

• ExceptionThrower - Throws exceptions cleanly with or without a message.
• LineEndingDetector - Detect line endings in a string.
• StorageDrives - Detect physical and logical storage drives
• PathEnvironmentVariable - Retrieve path environment variables
• WindowsFilePermissionManager - Set or Get Windows file permissions for a file.

Getting Started

Support

This can be added to any .NET Standard 2.0, .NET 8, .NET 9, or .NET 10 supported project.

Pre-requisites

Installation

• Nuget or dotnet add package DotPrimitives

License

DotPrimitives is licensed under the MIT licence.

See LICENSE.txt for more information.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following projects for their great work:

• Polyfill for simplifying .NET Standard 2.0 support
• Microsoft's System.ComponentModel.Annotations package for .NET Standard - This is used to enable .NET Standard 2.0 support on DotPrimitives's attributes.
• Microsoft's Microsoft.Bcl.HashCode for providing a backport of the HashCode class and static methods to .NET Standard 2.0