The purpose of this class library is to simplify working with arrays of bits
stored in 32 bit unsigned integers. The original class, BitArray32, supports
testing and turning bits on and off by number. Recent additions support display
of bit arrays in ways that give instant access to their individual bits.
To maximize compatibility with client code, the library targets version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework, enabling it to support projects that target that version, or any later version, of the framework. Since its implementation needs only core features of the Base Class Library, I have yet to discover an issue in using it with any of the newer frameworks.
The class belongs to the WizardWrx namespace, which I created to organize the
helper libraries that I use in virtually every production assembly, regardless
of what framework version is its target, and whether its surface is a Windows
console, the Windows desktop, or the ASP.NET Web server. To date, I have used
classes and methods in these libraries in all three environments and against
virtually every version of the framework and Base Class Library.
Since there are no name collisions, you may safely set references to any library
that exposes objects in the the WizardWrx namespace in a project, and add a
using directive for any of its subsidiary namespaces to any source module.
Detailed API documentation is at https://txwizard.github.io/BitMath.
For those who just want to use them, debug and release builds of the library and its unit test program are available as archives off the project root directory.
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WizardWrx_BitMath_Binaries_Debug.7zis the debug build of the binaries. -
WizardWrx_BitMath_Binaries_Release.7zis the release build of the binaries.
There is a DLL, PDB, and XML file for each assembly except the unit test program, which needs no XML documentation. To derive maximum benefit, including support for the Visual Studio managed code debugger and IntelliSense in the text editor, take all three.
As of 2019/04/30, there is a corresponding NuGet package at https://www.nuget.org/packages/WizardWrx.BitMath/
2016-06-07 12:07:00 Initial publication, with built-in IntelliSense help
2018/09/18 23:23:55 DocFX documentation added
2018/11/18 01:46:46 Generate new DocFX documentation based on my improved style sheets.
2018/11/18 16:29:53 Rewrite the ReadMe (this file), and add the overlooked archives of the binaries.
2019/04/30 01:50:21 Correct a typographical error that I discovered after I copied this file for use as README.txt for the NuGet package.