CoreSuite.Extensions 1.0.0

CoreSuite.Extensions

General-purpose string and collection utilities for .NET 8 applications.

Overview

CoreSuite.Extensions provides small, reusable operations for manipulating strings and retrieving a single object from a collection. The package includes character and word reversal, word counting, diacritic removal, title and camel-case conversion, first-occurrence replacement, extra-space removal and object creation when a collection contains no matching element.

Because the package does not depend on Windows Forms, it can be used in desktop applications, services, console applications, class libraries and other .NET 8 projects.

Features

• Reverses all characters in a string.
• Reverses the order of space-separated words.
• Counts words separated by spaces, tabs or line breaks.
• Removes accents and other Unicode non-spacing marks.
• Converts text to title case using the current culture.
• Converts space-, underscore- or hyphen-separated text to camel case.
• Replaces only the first occurrence of a substring.
• Collapses repeated spaces between text fragments.
• Retrieves a single collection element or creates a new instance when no element is found.
• Includes English XML documentation for the public API.
• Requires no third-party packages.

Requirements

• .NET 8 (net8.0)

Installation

Install the package from NuGet:

dotnet add package CoreSuite.Extensions

Or use the Visual Studio NuGet Package Manager and search for:

CoreSuite.Extensions

Namespace

Import the namespace containing the extension modules:

Imports CoreSuite.Extensions.Extensions

Quick start

Imports CoreSuite.Extensions.Extensions

Dim ReversedText As String = "CoreSuite".ReverseText()
Dim ReversedWords As String = "CoreSuite Extensions".ReverseWords()
Dim WordCount As Integer = "Reusable .NET utilities".CountWords()
Dim UnaccentedText As String = "Configuração".ToUnaccented()
Dim CamelName As String = "customer-order_number".ToCamel()
Dim CompactText As String = "CoreSuite    Extensions".RemoveExtraSpaces()

API reference

String extensions

Collection utility

String examples

Reverse characters or words

Dim Characters As String = "Hello World".ReverseText()
Dim Words As String = "Hello World".ReverseWords()

The results are dlroW olleH and World Hello, respectively.

Normalize text for comparison

Dim SearchText As String = "João da Silva".ToUnaccented().ToLowerInvariant()

ToUnaccented removes Unicode non-spacing marks. It does not perform case conversion, so a separate casing operation can be applied when required.

Convert naming styles

Dim Title As String = "CUSTOMER ORDER".ToTitle()
Dim PropertyName As String = "customer-order_number".ToCamel()

ToTitle and the casing operations used by ToCamel are culture-sensitive.

Replace only the first occurrence

Dim Result As String = "one two one".ReplaceFirst("one", "first")

The result is first two one.

Remove repeated spaces

Dim Result As String = "CoreSuite    Extensions".RemoveExtraSpaces()

The result is CoreSuite Extensions. This method treats the space character as its separator; tabs and line breaks are not collapsed.

Retrieve one element or create a new instance

FirstOrNew uses single-element semantics. It is useful when a query should return zero or one item and the calling code prefers a newly created object when no match exists.

Imports CoreSuite.Extensions.Extensions

Dim Customer As Customer = CollectionExtensions.FirstOrNew(Customers, Function(Item) Item.Id = CustomerId)

Important behavior:

• More than one matching element causes InvalidOperationException.
• When no element is found, the method attempts to create the item type through Activator.CreateInstance.
• Nothing is returned when the type cannot be created with a parameterless constructor.
• The source collection must not be Nothing.

Empty-value behavior

Package information

License

This package is distributed under the MIT License defined by the CoreSuite repository.