Weakly

Weakly is a collection of some useful weak-reference types available as portable class library for net45+win8+wp8+wpa81 and available through nuget.

Normally it is not possible to call private methods using reflection in Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps. You will get a MethodAccessException. Weakly solves this problem by using compiled Expressions. So it is not only possible to call private methods but also faster as dynamic invocation.

Install

Weakly is available through NuGet:

Install-Package Weakly

Content

Builders

• Builder.DynamicDelegate creates compiled version of MethodInfo.Invoke
• Builder.OpenAction creates open delegates
• Builder.OpenFunc creates open delegates
• Builder.PropertyAccessor creates compiled version of PropertyInfo.SetValue and GetValue

Collections

• WeakCollection<T>
• WeakValueDictionary<TKey, TValue>
• some Helpers

Delegates

• WeakAction
• WeakFunc<TResult>
• DisposableAction executes an action when disposed

Events

• WeakEventHandler
• WeakEventSource<TEventArgs>

Expressions

• some Helpers

IO

• MemoryTributary is a MemoryStream replacement using multiple memory segments

Reflection

• ManagedRuntime to determine the managed runtime
• ReflectionPath to reflect a path of properties
• some Helpers

Tasks

• Common Tasks
• Exception handling
• APM pattern helper