SharpCore

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SharpCore is an open source C# framework designed to provide common cross-cutting functionality to applications. Two of the main goals of SharpCore are ease-of-use and extensibility.

SharpCore consists of several different pieces, all designed with specific goals in mind.

• Caching
• Communications
• Logging
• NullableTypes
• Objects
• Scheduling
• Utilities

SharpCore can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharpcore.

Provides several different options for caching data. Current providers include

• DistributedCache - A configued local cache whose changes are propagated to multiple computers
• MessageQueueCache - A cache that leverages Microsoft Message Queue as the store
• MiserCache - A cache with configured volitale and persistent caches; once memory consumption reaches a certain threshold, items are moved from the volatile cache to the peristent cache
• SimpleCache - A cache that uses an in-memory Hashtable as the store
• SqlCache - A cache that uses SQL Server as the store

Note: The DistributedCache and MiserCache implementations do NOT provide their own cache, but rely another configured cache.

Provides session based communication between a client and a server. Once a SessionServer has been initialized and started, clients can connect and send Communiques. When a SessionServer receives a client communique, a notification event is fired.

Note: All Communiques sent across AppDomains require the Serializable attribute.

Provides logging to different sinks, at different configured levels. Current sinks include

• AspNetTraceLogger - Logs items through the System.Web.TraceContext class
• ConsoleLogger - Logs items through the System.Console class
• EventLogLogger - Logs items to the configured EvengLog
• FileLogger - Logs items to the configured file
• MessageQueueLogger - Logs items to the configured Microsoft Message Queue
• NetSendLogger - Logs items to the configured recipient using the Windows NET SEND functionality
• RollingFileLogger - Logs items to a different file each day
• SmtpLogger - Logs items by sending emails to the configured recipient
• SqlLogger - Logs items to the configured SQL Server database
• TraceLogger - Logs items through the System.Diagnostics.Trace class

Provides containers that allow value types to be represented as null. The current list of wrapper classes include

• NullableBoollean
• NullableByte
• NullableChar
• NullableDecimal
• NullableDouble
• NullableFloat
• NullableGuid
• NullableInt
• NullableLong
• NullableSByte
• NullableShort
• NullableUInt
• NUllableULong
• NullableUShort

Provides an object factory with dependency injection.

Provides functionality for scheduling jobs and sending notifications.

All jobs derive from JobBase and must implement an abstract method, Execute. Once the job has completed execution, all subscribers are notified through the OnComplete event.

Provides generalized utility functionality:

• Encrypting and decrypting data using the configured algorithm
• Interacting with SQL Server (executing commands, retrieving DataSets and DataReaders)

The only requirement for SharpCore is a binary compatible implementation of the .NET Framework 1.1. I'm currently working on a .NET 2.0 version, but it's not ready to be released yet.

SharpCore was written and is maintained by Adrian Anttila in his spare time. You can submit feeback to him here.