Circular Buffer for .NET

This is a quick announcement that I’ve released my code for an implementation of a generic circular buffer for .NET (written in C# 3.0). The release also includes an implementation of a circular stream, which is a wrapper over a circular buffer of bytes. You can view the project and download the source code over at CodePlex, where I’ve licensed it under the MS-PL, which should hopefully be fairly unrestrictive.

If you’re wondering where this idea came from, I recently came across an interesting use for a circular buffer, and upon finding out that the .NET BCL contained nothing along the lines of a circular buffer (or stream), I decided to implement one myself. I’ve attempted to do everything properly of course (i.e. in the style of the BCL data structures), so hopefully it should be immediately useful to anyone familiar with the concept.

More about this to come later.