Cuemon 2.1.2013.1700

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This is a medium release with a major impact. New features, breaking changes and new areas of interest as well as a few bug fixes - all applied in the name of flexibility, performance and stability.
The following work was completed for this release:

- Several new interfaces and related classes was introduced in the Cuemon.Threading namespace; IFuncWorkItem, IFuncWorkItemPool, FuncWorkItem, FuncWorkItemPool, ISortedFuncWorkItemPool
- A new static class was introduced in the Cuemon.Threading namespace; ParallelLoopUtility that provides support for generic ways of specifying parallel loops such as For, ForEach and While
- A new static class was introduced in the Cuemon.Threading namespace; ThreadPoolUtility that provides ways to work more efficient with ThreadPool related tasks
- A new static class was introduced in the Cuemon.Threading namespace; ThreadUtility that provides ways to work more efficient with Thread related tasks
- A new class was introduced in the Cuemon.Threading namespace; ThreadSettings that specifies a set of features to apply on the Thread object
- A new struct was introduced in the Cuemon.Threading namespace; Spinner that provides support for spin-based waiting
- A new delegate was introduced in the Cuemon namespace; FuncOut that is ideal for Try* operations
- A new class was introduced in the Cuemon.Xml namespace; XmlDataReader that provides a way of reading a forward-only access to primitive XML data that is more or less row based

- The DataManager-, SqlDataManager-, SqlCeDataManager- and DataAdapter class (as well as associated classes) was refactored to avoid the need for the Disposable pattern, while receiving a new way to retrieve connection strings
- The SqlDataManager class was extended with a long needed ExecuteBulk method (ideal for SQL Azure) while adding new error codes to the IsTransientFault method
- The BusinessEntity-, BusinessEntityCollection- and BusinessEntityDataAdapter- class was refactored to avoid the need for the Disposable pattern
- The CyclicRedundancyCheck class has now been made thread-safe
- The LoopUtility class was extended with these new methods: ForEach, While
- The IWorkItem interface was renamed to IActionWorkItem and refactored accordingly
- The IWorkItemPool interface was renamed to IActionWorkItemPool and refactored accordingly
- The ISortedWorkItem interface was renamed to ISortedFuncWorkItem and refactored accordingly
- The WorkItem class was renamed to ActionWorkItem and refactored accordingly
- The WorkItemPool class was renamed to ActionWorkItemPool and refactored accordingly
- The SortedWorkItem class was renamed to SortedFuncWorkItem and refactored accordingly
- The SortedWorkItemPool class was renamed to SortedFuncWorkItemPool and refactored accordingly
- The NumberUtility class was made more resilient to multithreading operations
- The NetHttpUtility class was refactored on all *WorkItem related methods
- The CountdownEvent class was internally refactored to resemble the one found in .NET 4
- The ActionFactory class and FuncFactory class was both extended with a new method; Clone
- The ReadOnlyDictionary class was extended with support for IEqualityComparer