Humanizer  an opensource project that provides real benefits to the developer.

 

Humanizer is a Portable Class Library with support for .Net 4.5+, Windows Phone 8, Win Store, and ASP.NET 5 (CoreCLR) applications. Also Humanizer symbols are source indexed with GitLink and are included in the package so you can step through Humanizer code while debugging your code.

 

 I have copied couple examples from the github site to illustrate the usage in my examples below

Examples

"PascalCaseInputStringIsTurnedIntoSentence".Humanize() => "Pascal case input string is turned into sentence"

"Underscored_input_string_is_turned_into_sentence".Humanize() => "Underscored input string is turned into sentence"

"Underscored_input_String_is_turned_INTO_sentence".Humanize() => "Underscored input String is turned INTO sentence"

"HUMANIZER".Transform(To.LowerCase, To.TitleCase) => "Humanizer" 

"Long text to truncate".Truncate(10, "---") => "Long te---"

"Long text to truncate".Truncate(2, Truncator.FixedNumberOfWords) => "Long text…"

 

Now my favourite Enums to user friendly text

public enum EnumUnderTest
{
    [Description("Custom description")]
    MemberWithDescriptionAttribute,
    MemberWithoutDescriptionAttribute,
    ALLCAPITALS
}

 

This can be used as

 

// DescriptionAttribute is honored
EnumUnderTest.MemberWithDescriptionAttribute.Humanize() => "Custom description"

// In the absence of Description attribute string.Humanizer kicks in
EnumUnderTest.MemberWithoutDescriptionAttribute.Humanize() => "Member without description attribute"

// Of course you can still apply letter casing
EnumUnderTest.MemberWithoutDescriptionAttribute.Humanize().Transform(To.TitleCase) => "Member Without Description Attribute"

Example of using resources

 

public enum EnumUnderTest
{
    [Display(Description = "EnumUnderTest_Member", ResourceType = typeof(Project.Resources))]
    Member
}

which produces
 

EnumUnderTest.Member.Humanize() => "content" // from Project.Resources found under "EnumUnderTest_Member" resource key