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Sasa v0.12.0 Released

Just a quick announcement that Sasa v0.12.0 was just released. You can obtain the individual assemblies via Nuget, or the whole set from Sourceforge. The docs are available as a CHM file on sourceforge, or online here.

Overview

This release includes a few fixes, the most prominent of which are in the HTML parser and the parsing of MIME linked resources.

Note that since v0.11.0, some extension methods on MailMessage have been deprecated due to Microsoft's recommended usage guidelines. The headers those extension methods accessed are overwritten whenever a MailMessage is sent via SmtpClient, so it's better not to rely on them.

A new feature is the sasametal utility, which is basically a wrapper around sqlmetal that normalizes some of the bizarre property names from sqlmetal into more CLR friendly names. A forthcoming blog post will cover the use of this tool.

Other new features include first-class references, and first-class slots. These are currently in the core Sasa assembly, but may be moved to a satellite assembly in the future if they don't see enough use.

Other changes cover backend work that simply expands the power of pre-existing features, like a more efficient and reusable PIC dispatch, now supporting up to 16 type arguments. There's also a new assembly, Sasa.Partial, which provides partial application overloads for System.Func and System.Action, up to 10 arguments.

Changelog

 * added Strings.RemoveLast extension which is a convenient way of removing
   characters from the end of a StringBuilder.
 * made MailMessage parsing stricter to conform to Microsoft's usage
   recommendations for MailMessage
 * deprecated certain header parsers, like ContentType() and
   ContentTransferEncoding(), since .NET strips these when sending mail anyway
 * HTML views are no longer unpacked into MailMessage.Body since docs say this
   property is reserved for plain/text
 * QuotedPrintable decoding is now more permissive to encoding errors
 * merged sasametal tool that normalizes the output of sqlmetal
 * ilrewrite now only outputs pdb file if an input pdb was available
 * adapted MailMessage parsing code to .NET 4.0 (mainly ReplyToList)
 * added text encoding extension methods to ContentType
 * added extension method for filtering a sequence of attachments by media type 
 * added extension method for extracting attachment data as a string using the
   encapsulated encoding
 * added extension method to overwrite an attachment's data using string
   content using the encapsulated encoding
 * Strings.SliceEquals now has an overload accepting a StringComparison
   parameter to customize the comparison type performed
 * Tokenizer now takes an optional parameter for the type of string
   comparisons
 * HTML parser now performs case-insensitive comparisons
 * now correctly parsing alternate view linked resources
 * added implementations for first-class references to all core CLR types
 * added implementations for first-class slots to all core CLR types
 * PIC now based on a concurrency-safe map that looks up a tuple of System.Type
 * PIC and CLR expression compiler can now efficiently dispatch up to 16 params
 * Sasa.Dynamics simplified by switch to new PIC
 * added .NET 3.5-specific overloads of System.Func and System.Action for up to
   16 params
 * added Sasa.Partial assembly, which provides partial application overloads
   for System.Func and System.Action for up to 10 params
 * fixed a couple of bugs in Sasa.Dynamics codegen

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