FileHelpers Library 2.0

The FileHelpers are an easy to use and useful library to import/export data from fixed length or delimited records in files, strings or streams.
If you want to start using the library go directly to the Quick Start Guide.
The library has a set of Automatic Converters and can be extended with Custom Cunverters.
Also has support for import/export data from differents data storages like Excel, Access, SqlServer, etc.
Main features:
- Easy to use: The FileHelpers Lib is straight forward to learn and use.
- Auto Converters: The library has a set of converters for the basic types and can be easy extended to provide custom converters.
- Master-Detail: Yu can read and write records with a master/detail pattern.
- Ms Excel Storage: Are a way to extract / insert records between any source and an excel file
- DataLinks: Are a way to extract / insert records between a database and a file
- GenericDataLink: Now you can to copy records between two Data Storages
- Asynchronous Mode: You can use the library to read line by line and not the whole file.
- .NET Compact Framework Support From the version 1.1 you can use the FileHelpers library for you PocketPC and WindowsCE developments.
- File Transform Engine: to convert files in one format to another (for example a file with CSV to a FixedLength record format)
- Progress Notification: to get notified of the progress in each operation in the library
- .NET 2.0 Generics: the cast less and strong typed version of the engines
- Files, Stream and String Support: You can use the library to read/write any stream or string, not only files.
- Different Error Behaviors: You can set the behavior of the library when an error is found (throw and exception, ignore, save and continue, etc)
- Quoted String Support It allows to indicates that the field must be read and written as Quoted String, like Excel CSV.
- Encoding Aware : You can define the encoding used to read and write files or streams
- NullValues : The library identifies the null values in the files and assign an adequate value
- Good Documentation : The library is fully documented, al least is the intention =) and with a lot of Examples of Use.
- Align and Trimming: You can set the processing mode of the in/out strings with a lot of attributes like the FieldAlignAttribute and the FieldTrimAttribute.