Benday.Common

A collection of utility classes for .NET including: domain model patterns, search and paging infrastructure, JSON reading/editing, process execution, and extension methods for strings and configuration.

Key Features

• Domain Model Support - Identity interfaces (IInt32Identity, IStringIdentity) and deletable pattern (IDeleteable)
• Search & Paging - Classes for handling searching, sorting, and paging of results (Search, SearchArgument, SearchResult, PageableResults)
• JSON Editing - Path-based JSON reading and editing with JsonEditor class (in Benday.Common.Json namespace)
• Process Execution - Utility classes for running command line tools, reading results, and managing errors (ProcessRunner, AsyncProcessRunner)
• String Extensions - Safe string operations, null handling, and type conversions (SafeToString, SafeToInt32, IsNullOrEmpty, etc.)
• Configuration Extensions - Extension methods for accessing values from IConfiguration
• Dependency Injection - Interfaces for organizing type registration (ITypeRegistrationItem)

Installation

dotnet add package Benday.Common

Target Frameworks

• .NET 8.0
• .NET 9.0
• .NET 10.0
• .NET Standard 2.1

Quick Examples

JSON Editing

using Benday.Common.Json; // Load and edit JSON var editor = new JsonEditor(jsonString, true); // Read values at any depth var value = editor.GetValue("ConnectionStrings", "DefaultConnection"); // Set values (creates intermediate nodes if needed) editor.SetValue("newValue", "Settings", "Feature", "Enabled"); // Get typed values bool? isEnabled = editor.GetValueAsBoolean("Settings", "IsEnabled"); int? timeout = editor.GetValueAsInt32("Settings", "Timeout"); // Output modified JSON string result = editor.ToJson(indented: true);

String Extensions

using Benday.Common; string? maybeNull = GetSomeValue(); // Safe operations that handle nulls string safe = maybeNull.SafeToString("default"); int number = maybeNull.SafeToInt32(-1); bool contains = maybeNull.SafeContains("search"); // Null checks as extension methods if (maybeNull.IsNullOrEmpty()) { /* ... */ } if (maybeNull.IsNullOrWhitespace()) { /* ... */ } // Case-insensitive comparison if (value1.EqualsCaseInsensitive(value2)) { /* ... */ }

About

Written by Benjamin Day Pluralsight Author | Microsoft MVP | Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer https://www.benday.com https://www.slidespeaker.ai info@benday.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@_benday

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Source code

API Documentation

NuGet Package