Cuemon 2.0.2013.1000

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For two month this major release has been under way - and there are still so much work to be done, but slow and steady a cloud friendly framework is emerging with the guts to remove deprecated code while keeping a focus on performance and high flexibility using Action and Func delegates where appropriate. My Achilles heel is still the Cuemon.ServiceModel class, but the ground work is in place and I expect within 3 months that a REST friendly and highly flexible solution is in place.
Enough with the small talk - let’s get to the work that was implemented for 2.0.2013.1000:

- The Func delegate was extended from 5 arguments to 20 arguments
- The Action delegate was extended from 5 arguments to 20 arguments

- A new utility class was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; TransientFaultUtility that provides ways to make applications more resilient with robust transient fault handling logic
- A new class was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; TransientFaultException
- A new class was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; DefaultOr that provides - to some extent - a generic way to support the Null Object Pattern
- A new class was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; Wrapper -> IWrapper
- A new class was introduced to ease the usage of Func delegates; the FuncFactory class with up to 20 arguments
- A new class was introduced to ease the usage of Action delegates; the ActionFactory class with up to 20 arguments
- A new class was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; LoopUtility
- A new class was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; Hierarchy -> IHierarchy as well as HierarchyUtility
- A new class was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; AssignmentUtility
- A new enum was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; AssignmentOperator
- A new enum was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; RelationalOperator
- The HashUtility class was extended to support the CRC32 checksum
- The MethodSignature class was extended with these new members; HasParameters, Create, MergeParameters
- The Instrumentation class was simplified internally
- The TypeUtility class was extended with these new methods; GetAncestorOrSelf, IsEnumerable, IsDictionary, IsKeyValuePair, SanitizeTypeName, ContainsAttributeType
- The ExceptionUtility class was refactored, moved and extended with these new methods; Parse, Flatten, Refine [breaking]
- The TesterDoerUtility class was refactored to support both Action and Func delegates [breaking]
- The HttpMethod enum was renamed to HttpMethods as it now supports the Flags attribute [breaking]
- The StringUtility class was extended with these new methods; Remove
- The ConvertUtility class received optimizations and was extended with these new methods; ToWebHeaderCollection, ToString, ToEnumerable, ToDelimitedString
- The ReflectionUtility class was extended with these new methods; GetAttributes, GetAttribute, HasCircularReference, GetPropertyValue, GetObjectHierarchy

- A new class was introduced in the Cuemon.Security.Cryptography namespace; CyclicRedundancyCheck32
- A new abstract class was introduced in the Cuemon.Security.Cryptography namespace; CyclicRedundancyCheck
- A new enum was introduced in the Cuemon.Security.Cryptography namespace; PolynomialRepresentation

- A new utility class was introduced in the Cuemon.Collections.Generic namespace; ListUtility
- A new utility class was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; EnumUtility with so far one method: HasFlags
- A new class was introduced in the Cuemon.Collections.Generic namespace; EnumerableSizeComparer
- The EnumerableUtility class was extended with several new methods; Select, SelectMany, FindAll, Any

- A new enum was introduced in the Cuemon.Xml.Serialization namespace; SerializableOrder
- The XmlUtility class has its ConvertEncoding method extended
- The XmlConvertUtility class was extended with these new methods; ToXmlElement, ToStream [breaking]
- The XmlSerializationUtility class completely revamped, refactored and simplified with a high degree of flexibility [breaking]
- The XmlSerialization class was extended with several new overloads of ToXml

- The DataManager, SqlDataManager and SqlCeDataManager class was refactored to use the new TransientFaultUtility class with accordingly name aligning [breaking]
- The RuntimeBusinessEntity class was extended to provide better exception details
- The DataManager class received a bug fix for those rare occasions where an exception is thrown while iterating a reader or similar; command parameters are cleared now
- The ColumnAttribute class now supports ordering of compound primary keys
- The BusinessEntityDataAdapter now support multiple steps in property hierarchy
- The MappingUtility class was extended with the new methods; ParseStorageFieldValue, SetStorageFieldPropertyValue, ParseStorageField
- The BusinessEntity class now supports multiple steps in property hierarchy
- The BusinessEntityUtility class now fully supports compound primary keys

- The XsltPage now supports entity tag resolvement when checking against client caching
- The GlobalModule class was simplified internally
- The HttpResponseFilter class was simplified internally
- The HttpResponseContentFilter class was extended and simplified internally
- The HttpResponseUtility class was refactored and extended with these new methods; SetClientSideContentCacheExpiresHeaders, CreateClientSideContentCacheExpiresHeaders [breaking]
- The HttpRequestUtility class was refactored and extended with these new methods; IsClientSideContentCached, TryGetEntityTagHeader [breaking]
- The SiteMapProtocolHandler was refactored to use the NetHttpUtility class

- The Cuemon.ServiceModel assembly is a work in progress why it is not recommended to use any classes but the Endpoint base class although many have been added

Happy coding - it was with a high degree of pride that this release is made possible!