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C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 - Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition
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C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 - Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition

by Mark J. Price, Dustin Heffron, Efraim Kyriakidis
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
30h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Enumerating arguments

To enumerate or iterate (that is, loop through) the values of those four arguments, add the following lines of highlighted code after outputting the length of the array:

WriteLine($"There are {args.Length} arguments."); 
foreach (string arg in args)
{
   WriteLine(arg); 
} 

We will now use these arguments to allow the user to pick a color for the background, foreground, width, and height of the console window.

Change the argument values to the following:

red yellow 50 10

Import the System namespace by adding the following line to the top of the code file if it is not already there:

using System; 
We need to import the System namespace so that the compiler knows about the ConsoleColor and Enum types. If you cannot see either ...
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