The WizardWrx .NET API is now in the NeGet Gallery

[David A Gray]

The WizardWrx .NET API, which has been on [GitHub - txwizard/WizardWrx_NET_API](https://github.com/txwizard/WizardWrx\_NET\_API) for several years, is finally available as a set of NuGet packages. Everything is subject to the same three-clause BSD license. The WizardWrx .NET API is a set of libraries that expose a rich set of general-purpose helper classes for use in projects that target the Microsoft .NET Framework. Among other things, they offer the following. 1) Syntactic sugar, such as the routines that identify the first, last, and next-to-last iteration of a FOR loop, convert subscripts to and from ordinals (zero-based versus one-based subscripts), compute a modulus (remainder), and perform decimal shifts 2) Prse dynamically generated format control strings (used with string.format and such), 3) Reduce computing message digests to a single method call 4) Transparently convert Registry values of all types into native types (strings, integers of various sizes, and byte arrays) 5) Parse command line arguments for any program (command line or graphical), 6) Add numerous extension methods to system.string and system.IO.FileOnfo 7) Simplify working with the match groups returned by the Regular Expression engine 8) Dynamically generate format strings to compactly represent data in tabular format 9) Implement the Singleton design pattern in a way that fully leverages certain guarantees about the behavior of static constructors 10) Format and log exception reports, optionally recording them in a Windows Event Log and efficiently reporting them on the two standard console output streams, taking into account when either or both has been redirected to a file 11) Accurately identify the type of processor on which the code is executing and the Windows subsystem (character mode, graphical, etc.) in which it is executing 12) Walk the dependency tree of any executing assembly 13) Sort collections of FileInfo objects, so that the files they represent can be processed in any order 14) Provide scores of handy symbolic constants to disambiguate and properly document your code The3re is much more; these are the highlights, most of which I use daily. You can search the gallery for WizardWrx, though a more efficient strategy is to follow the directions given near the top of README.md in the GitHub repository. MSDN-style documentation is published at [Introduction to the W