Lokad Shared Libraries

Lokad Shared Libraries is a set of helper assemblies for .NET 3.5 and Silverlight 2.0. They are being developed as part of the Open Source effort by Lokad and are distributed under the new BSD license.

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• Download latest release.
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Lokad.Shared

Lokad.Shared.dll hosts various Application Blocks, helper classes and generic interfaces.

• Application Blocks:

  • Validation and Business Rules
  • Action Policies and Exception Handling
  • Logging

• Helper classes:

  • Enforce - add and enforce design contracts in your code.
  • Tuples - simplify variable composition, complex equality checks and hashing algorithms.
  • SystemUtil - write .NET code with testable sleep and time calls.
  • Extensions for ReaderWriterLockSlim - take .NET 3.5 locks properly and with less lines of code.
  • Express and Reflect - strongly-typed reflection that could even get you the name of the variable or argument.
  • C# Maybe Monad.

• Samples

Lokad.Testing

Lokad.Testing.dll hosts MockContainer to simplify unit testing of complex scenarios:

• Testing MVC Controllers with Mock Container
• Testing MVC Elements and Interactions with Mock Container

Lokad.Stack

Lokad.Stack.dll provides simplified and unified access to 3rd party libraries leveraged by Lokad. It includes and integrates with log4net and Autofac.

• Structuring .NET Applications with Autofac IoC
• Logging with Lokad Shared Libraries for .NET

Lokad.Quality

This library leverages Mono.Cecil to make it easier to define rules enforcing design rules and keeping high code quality. For example, it makes it really easy to answer questions like:

• How to Count Methods With NotImplementedException?
• How to ensure that classes marked with ImmutableAttribute are Immutable indeed?
• How to Find Extension Methods Targeting Object?
• How to Change Namespace of .NET Assembly?

Status Updates

• 06 February 2009 - Status and Roadmap.
• 17 July 2009 - Release 1.5.

References

• Community - ask questions and get answers!
• Release packages (just grab the latest)
• Online Documentation
• Public Integration Server
• Issue Tracker
• Source Code:
  • Instructions
  • Subversion access
  • Web view

Building

In order to build the libraries you must have .NET 3.5 installed on your machine. Then you simply check out the Shared folder (there is no need to pull the whole trunk, since sub solutions are atomic) and execute in it:

go /t:Rebuild

In order to run the whole build, unit testing and reporting routine (the way it is done on the server), just execute in the folder:

go /t:Integrate

Core library (Lokad.Shared) can be compiled and tested under Silverlight 2.0. To get the packages you need to execute:

go-s /t:Rebuild

Testing could be executed as well:

go-s /t:integrate

Caveat

Libraries could be used in either .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.5. But you still need the new compiler (VS 2008) in order to get the best development experience.