The methods of the MainUtil class are listed below. For a complete list of MainUtil class members, see the MainUtil Members topic.
Public Static (Shared) Methods
  AcquireLock | Acquires a named lock. |
| AddArrays | Concatenates two arrays. |
| AppendMissingIDBrace | Appends a mssing closing brace "}" if a path starts with a brace "{". |
| BoolToString | Converts a boolean to "true" or "false". |
| BuildHashtable | |
| Capitalize | Obsolete. Uppercases the first letter of a string and lowercases the remaining letters. |
| ClearBit | Resets a bit in an integer. |
| CompactArray | Overloaded. Compacts an object array by removing null values. |
| CompareVersionNumbers | Compares two Sitecore version numbers. |
| ConvertArray | Converts an array to another type. |
| ConvertToHashtable | Converts an array list to a hashtable. |
| ConvertToNameValues | Overloaded. Converts an array list to a name/value collection. |
| ConvertToString | Overloaded. Converts an array list of strings to a single string. |
| CopyArray | Inserts an array into another array. |
| CreateObject | Overloaded. Creates an instance of an object. |
| DecodeName | Decodes an item name. |
| EncodeName | Encodes an item name. |
| EncodePath | Encodes an item path. |
| EscapePling | Escapes plings (') or quotes (") in a HTML tag attribute value. |
| ExpandArray | Overloaded. |
| ExpandSitecorePath | |
| FindStartTag | Finds an end tag in a string. |
| FormatSize | Formats a number into a size string. |
| GarbageCollect | Performs garbage collection to keep memory usage down. |
| GenerateShortID | Generates a short unique ID. |
| GetArrayList | Gets an array list of strings. |
| GetAssemblyName | Gets the name of the assembly containing a type. |
| GetBackupFilename | Gets a filename for a backup file. |
| GetBool | Overloaded. |
| GetCallerMethod | Gets a reference to a method on the call stack. |
| GetCallerName | Gets name of the calling method. |
| GetCallerType | |
| GetDotNetFolder | Gets the root folder of the current .NET Framework. |
| GetDotNetVersion | Gets the version of the current .NET Framework. |
| GetExceptionMessage | Gets the message from an exception. |
| GetExtraEntries | Gets the extra entries in one hashtable compared to another. |
| GetFileLock | Obsolete. Gets file specific lock object. |
| GetFileTime | Obsolete. Gets the last modified time of a file. |
| GetFileWriteTime | Obsolete. Gets the last modified time of a file. |
| GetGuid | Overloaded. Gets a guid from a string. |
| GetHashtable | Gets a Hashtable from a list of objects. |
| GetID | Overloaded. |
| GetImage | Overloaded. Gets an image HTML tag. |
| GetInt | Overloaded. Gets the integer value of a string. |
| GetLong | Gets the integer long value of a string. |
| GetMemoryUsed | |
| GetNameValues | Overloaded. Converts a string to a name/value collection. |
| GetNewID | Generates a new GUID. |
| GetNextSequence | Gets next value of the sequencer. |
| GetNextVarNameSequence | Gets next value of the variable name sequencer, optionally resetting it if it has reached a certain maximum. |
| GetObject | Gets an object reference. |
| GetPagefileUsage | Gets current page file usage. |
| GetProcessInfo | Get current process info. |
| GetProcessMemoryInfo | Win32 memory method. |
| GetRequestFlag | Gets a boolean flag from the query string. |
| GetRequestInt | Gets an integer from the query string. |
| GetSequencer | Gets the current sequencer value. |
| GetSortKey | Overloaded. Generates a unique sort key. |
| GetSpacer | Overloaded. Gets an image HTML tag with a blank image. |
| GetString | Overloaded. Gets the string value of an object. |
| GetStringList | Gets an array list of strings. |
| GetThreadID | Gets the current thread ID. |
| GetTicks | |
| GetTristate | |
| GetUniqueID | Generates a unique ID. |
| GetWebItemSource | Overloaded. Gets the web item data source from the query string. |
| GetWord | Gets n'th word from a string. |
| GetWorkFileName | Gets a unique filename. |
| GetWorkingSetSize | Gets size of current working set. |
| GuidToString | Overloaded. Converts guid to string. |
| HexToColor | |
| HexToInt | |
| Html | Writes a line of HTML to the Response output stream. |
| IndexOf | Gets the index of an object in an array. |
| IntToHex | |
| IsBitSet | |
| IsEmpty | |
| IsFullPath | |
| IsID | Checks if string is a valid GUID. |
| IsType | Overloaded. Checks if an object is of a given type |
| IsXPath | Checks if a string contains an XPath expression. |
| Join | Overloaded. Joins two strings excluding any empty string from the result. |
| MakeFilePath | Overloaded. Builds a file path from a folder and a file. |
| MakePath | Obsolete. Makes a path from two filename parts. |
| MapPath | Maps a virtual file path to a physical file path. |
| MsgBox | Overloaded. Shows a message box. |
| NormalizeGuid | Overloaded. Normalizes a GUID. |
| NormalizeItemName | Normalizes an item name. |
| Out | Overloaded. Writes a line of HTML to the Response output stream. |
| ReadFromFile | Obsolete. Reads a text file. |
| ReleaseLock | Release a named lock |
| RemoveEmptyStrings | |
| RemoveEnd | Removes a number of characters from the end of a string. |
| RemoveFromArray | |
| RemoveStart | Remove the first characters from a string. |
| ReplaceItemIDs | Replaces all item IDs in an XML document with new GUIDs. |
| ReplacePostfix | Replaces the postfix of a string. |
| ReplacePrefix | Replaces the prefix of a string. |
| SendMail | |
| SetBit | |
| SetEnvironmentVariable | |
| ShortenGuid | Shortens a GUID by removing braces and hyphens. |
| ShrinkArray | Overloaded. |
| Split | Overloaded. Splits a string into an array of strings. |
| SplitPath | Splits a Sitecore path into parts, optionally expanding it to include the root. |
| StringToBool | Converts a string to boolean. |
| Substring | Overloaded. Retrieves a substring from a string. The substring starts at a specified character position and has a specified length. |
| ThemedImage | Overloaded. Gets a themed image path. |
| Trace | Writes a message to the trace. |
| TraceIf | Conditionally writes a message to the trace. |
| TristateToString | |
| UnmapPath | Maps a physical path to a virtual path. |
| Unquote | Obsolete. Removes enclosing single and double quotes from a string. |
| Warn | Writes a warning message to the trace. |
| WriteToFile | Overloaded. Writes a byte array to a file. |
Public Instance Methods
| Equals (inherited from Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. |
| GetHashCode (inherited from Object) | Serves as a hash function for a particular type, suitable for use in hashing algorithms and data structures like a hash table. |
| GetType (inherited from Object) | Gets the Type of the current instance. |
| ToString (inherited from Object) | Returns a String that represents the current Object. |
Protected Instance Methods
 Finalize (inherited from Object) | Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. |
| MemberwiseClone (inherited from Object) | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. |
See Also
MainUtil Class | Sitecore Namespace | DateUtil | FileUtil | HtmlUtil | StringUtil | WebUtil | XmlUtil