August 14, 2011

New Open Source Project: MVC.Utilities

I announced this on Twitter late last week, but I open-sourced a number of common helpers and service interfaces that I use throughout all of my production ASP.NET MVC applications and wrapped it into a project I call MVC.Utilities.

MVC.Utilities has a number of helper classes for the following:

  1. Encryption;
  2. Caching;
  3. Authentication;
  4. Routing;
  5. Security for user-uploaded files;
  6. and display helpers for things like Hacker News-style datetimes.

 

If you want more details and examples of what the library does exactly, be sure to check out the MVC.Utilities Wiki on Github. All of these services are meant to be Dependency-Injected into ASP.NET MVC controllers and are designed as such.

The library has a lot of room to expand and grow, and I encourage your ideas and contributions to the project! Just create a fork of MVC.Utilities on Github and send me a pull request; props to Wesley Tansey for already submitting a couple of patches!

Installing MVC.Utilities via NuGet

MVC.Utilities is available via NuGet – type in the following command via the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio to have it added to your project today:

Install-Package mvc-utilities

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