This library is part of the PPWCode project and is a collection of several small helpers and utility code.
This is version II of the library, which is designed to work with Microsoft .NET 4.5 from the get-go.
The library is available as the NuGet package PPWCode.Util.OddsAndEnds.II in the NuGet Gallery. It can be installed using the Nuget package manager from inside Visual Studio.
Version I of the library is the original version of the library and is now in maintenance mode.
The code was originally built against Microsoft .NET 3.5 and a version for .NET 3.5 is still available in the NuGet Gallery. It is the NuGet package PPWCode.Util.OddsAndEnds.I version 2.x.x. Every 2.x.x version will be a maintenance release built against .NET 3.5.
Note that the 2.x.x versions depend on a NuGet package Microsoft.Contracts. This is a package that cannot be published in the NuGet Gallery, because it contains a proprietary dll from Microsoft. It is really easy to create this package by yourself however.
The more recent maintenance releases of PPWCode.Util.OddsAndEnds.I are built against .NET 4.5. Every release from 3.x.x onwards will be built against .NET 4.5. These versions can be found on the git branch stable/I. They are also published in the NuGet Gallery.
A couple of reasons come to mind as to why you would want to build your own package of this library. One reason would be that you need a version of the library built with the debug configuration. Another reason might be that you need features that are available on master, but that are not yet released.
Building your own package of this library is very easy. A psake build script is added for this purpose.
Before executing regular psake tasks, the environment must first be initialized. To do this, open a PowerShell prompt, and execute the following in the root folder of the source.
.\init-psake.ps1
This will initialize your environment. Note that the script assumes that the NuGet commandline client is available on the path.
After the initialization, several psake tasks can be executed using the
PowerShell command Invoke-psake that is available now. Here are a couple
of examples:
Invoke-psake
Invoke-psake ?
Invoke-psake PackageRestore
Invoke-psake Package -properties @{ 'configuration'='Debug'; 'repos'=@('nuget'); 'publishrepo' = 'local' }
The last line builds a NuGet package using the 'Debug' configuration, and publishes it to the NuGet repository with the name 'local'. The NuGet repository 'nuget' is used to locate the dependent NuGet packages.
See the GitHub Contributors list.
This package is part of the PPWCode project, developed by [PeopleWare n.v.].
More information can be found in the following locations:
Please note that not all information on those sites is up-to-date. We are currently in the process of moving the code away from the Google code subversion repositories to git repositories on GitHub.
Specifically for the .NET libraries: new development will be done on the PeopleWare GitHub repositories, and all new stable releases will also be published as packages on the NuGet Gallery.
We believe in Design By Contract and have good experience with Microsoft Code Contracts and the related tooling. As such, our packages always include Contract Reference assemblies. This allows you to also benefit as a user from the contracts that are already included in the library code.
The packages also include both the pdb and xml files, for debugging symbols and documentation respectively. In the future we might look into using symbol servers.
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