template function to create a boost::shared_ptr in the form

boost::shared_ptr classPtr = new_ptr(Arg1, Arg2);

You can also make new_ptr_access a friend of className and make the constructor and destructor private.

This keeps the end user from:

Creating an instance manually on the heap
Creating an instance manually on the stack
Deleting a shared_ptr manually using "delete get()"

boost::format gives you the ablility to safely use printf like formatting as well as positional format specifiers ala .NET.

Simple tests for dir and file existance. Path creation and removal.

Transform any basic type to string. Very handy for log messages

Usage:

int i(12);
float j(3.14);
cout

Converts a string representation of a number with any base(binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal, up to base 36) to a long int.

Convert an ebcdic buffer to an ascii buffer.

One of best and unknown built in string function included in .NET is String.Split(). It has come in quite handy for my in the last 2 years that I thought I'd share. Pretty basic example here...and for my first post, I thought I'd throw in a little File IO (for free of course)! This was written in .NET 2.0 and it will take little to no modification to make it work in 1.0/1.1.

This snippet generates a secure hash string using VB.NET

This function provides the reverse of a string. It is constructed using string builder because strings in .NET are immutable, while stringbuilders are not. Therefore large strings could be slow to reverse if a regular string was used for the working value that is returned.

This function loads an File into an String.