Some of my posts that I get the most recurring email/inquiries on are my various posts about the STDF (Standard Test Datalog Format) parser that I originally created as an experiment back in 2005.  After some help from a former collegue, I am pleased to announce that this is finally available on CodePlex as LinqToStdf!

It is a managed library for processing STDF files, and gives you a model to explore the data via Linq queries.  This means, you can leverage the wide variety of managed languages (C#, VB, F#, JScript, IronPython, IronRuby, Managed C++, Boo, etc.) to process the data in STDF files.  It also works in Silverlight!  It has built-in support for the V4 spec, but it's highly extensible and should be able to parse any version of the file format as well as custom records.  It can be configured to be highly strict and throw on format errors, or be robust in the face of issues that normal STDF processors would choke on to the point of being able to detect and repair corruption on the fly.

If that interests you, I'd love for you to drop by and take a deeper look at it and get involved in its ongoing development.  I've already got at least one person interested enough to contribute and ensure its success as a community project.  There is currently a "beta" release available, and hopefully we'll whip it into shape enough to call it v1.0 soon.

My hope is that this can be an adoption driver for .NET in the semiconductor industry and that through this project I can be an ambassador for the CLR in that area.