Costanza

Your favourite short, stocky, slow-witted and bald friend for .NET and ASP.NET MVC. More clearly: it’s a utility library that adds small improvements to the .NET framework and ASP.NET MVC.

The reasoning behind the name: it's a tribute to one of the greatest characters ever created in television, George Costanza. Like George, to many this library may seem useless at first. However, prolonged exposure will eventually lead to a meaningful friendship.

“I don’t even like to use urinals, I’ve always been a stall man.” — George Costanza

Features for ASP.NET MVC

• Common route constraints.
• Custom ActionResults.
• Helpful extensions to UrlHelper and HtmlHelper.

And more. Read the full documentation of Costanza.Mvc.

Features for general .NET development

• Exception-free conversion from string and object, to other common data types, like int and decimal.
• Perform calculations with dates.
• Helpful extension methods for string.
• Create transactions with the right transaction settings.

Read the full documentation of Costanza.

Installing

Both Costanza and Costanza.Mvc are listed in the NuGet gallery.

PM> Install-Package Costanza 

PM> Install-Package Costanza.Mvc 

Versions

Costanza
0.1 Initial release.

Costanza.Mvc
0.1 Initial release.
0.1.1 ImageResult now has better caching and support for streams.

License

Let's keep lawyers out of code. There's no actual license. Just use the code however you want. You don't even have to mention you got it from me. Still, that would be a nice gesture on your part.