angrybracket

A set of helper classes and extension methods for .NET

Overview of classes

Note that all of the classes (or at least the extension method classes -- datastructures may be moved into another namespace in future) are actually in the root namespace, so you don't have to go digging around for the proper namespace to include. Just include using AngryBracket; and you'll get all of the helper extension methods available instantly.

Controls

Class	Description
GhostTextbox	Like a normal TextBox control, but supports "ghost" placeholder text through the GhostText property.
ThemedListView	A ListView, but with the native Windows explorer theming instead of the god-awful XP style block highlighting. Gives you the nice hover animations and effects (screenshots below).

Datastructures

Class	Description
CircularBuffer	Implementation of a circular buffer. Like a stack, but you can just keep pushing. Once you push more items than its capacity, it'll start overwriting from the beginning. Note: can't pop yet, since I only really use it for AveragingBuffer (see below).
AveragingBuffer	Push stuff into it, and it'll keep a running average. Great for uses such as FPS timers (just push in your frametimes, and divide 1000 by the CurrentAverage). Note that it has a "spin up time" when pushing the first size values, where the average will slowly increase to the true average. Decreasing the size of the buffer will reduce this time, but also make the average more sensitive to changes.
PartialList	Provides a "view" into a List, when you need to pass in part of a List into a method, but don't want to copy the values into another List.

Helpers

Class	Description
ArrayHelper	Extension methods for Arrays.
CollectionsHelper	Extension methods for some ICollection classes (Stack, Queue, Dictionary, etc).
DrawingHelper	Extension methods for System.Drawing, and datastructures such as Point, Rectangle, Size, etc.
FileHelper	Extension methods for file and directory related classes.
IEnumerableHelper	Extension methods for IEnumerables.
IOHelper	Extension methods for Streams and Readers/Writers.
JsonHelper	A tiny helper method for parsing and serialising Json, wrapping the System.Runtime.Serialization standard library. Not intended for high performance use; it's basically for when you're including this library already, and you're too lazy to get Newtonsoft.Json
MathHelper	Provides extension methods for number types (int, long, float, etc).
NativeMethods	A collection of native win32 methods used by some of the classes in AngryBracket. You probably won't use these.
NaturalSortComparer	An IComparer that sorts things alphabetically in the common sense way. See here for info.
ProcessHelper	Extension and static methods for System.Diagnostics and other Process related methods.
RandomUtil	A static, thread-safe version of Random so you don't have to init one yourself. Also includes a cryptographically secure random generator version.
ReflectionHelper	Extension methods for System.Reflection.
StringHelper	Extension methods for the String class, including date parsing and faster ToString ("ToStringQuick") functions.
ThreadHelper	Helper methods relating to System.Threading. Currently only includes an IEnumerable extension method to multithread workloads easily.
WebHelper	Static helper methods for System.Net and System.Web. Currently only includes a Post and Get method.

More documentation coming soon (and better extension method names...)