About

Umbrella is nVentive's attempt at filling the gaps in the existing .net framework and related technologies; hence reducing friction and increasing the predictability of the api.

It consists of a set of helpers and additional abstractions that will likely augment one's vocabulary and level of abstraction.

Recent News

• Umbrella 0.9 drop is available!

How Do I...?

• Run Tests

Quick Start Samples

IEnumerable

• Execute an action for every element of an IEnumerable instance

IDictionary<TKey, TValue>

• Get the value associated with a key or a default value, without using an out value

Reflection

• Check if an instance of a type can be cast to an other type

Conversion

• Convert a string to an enumerable

System.Action

• Execute a method at the end of a "using" scope

Serialization

• Serialize using the BinaryFormatter

Regular Expressions

• Query the result of a regular expression match using LINQ