C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0

Building console applications

Console applications are text based and are run at the Command Prompt. They typically perform simple tasks that need to be scripted such as compiling a file or encrypting a section of a configuration file. They can have arguments passed to them to control their behavior, for example, to compile a source file into a shared library:

csc my.cs /target:library

To encrypt the database connection strings section in a Web.config file, use the following command:

aspnet_regiis –pdf "connectionStrings" "c:\mywebsite\"

Displaying output to the user

The two most common tasks that a console application performs are writing and reading lines. We have already been using the WriteLine method to output. If we didn't want a carriage ...