I was trying to help a beginner dev that (like many early on) wanted to tackle an irc bot as their first project. They had apparently googled for C# irc and came across this code . Now, having spent a couple of my college years running my own irc server...

It's proven useful in a couple of places, and it's pretty small and self-documenting. I had written this mainly to look at my VS settings file in a nicer way since it saves with a minimum of whitespace. private static string ToPrettyXml( string xml) ...

Not all problems lend themselves to this, but as a general suggestion, if you're handling T[] or {I,}List<T> or ArrayList or the like of items (especially ones coming from I/O sources - files, network, etc.) with a single pass, you should consider...