May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Almost all of the example applications created over the course of the initial chapters of this book make extensive use of the System.Console class. While it is true that a console user interface (CUI) is not as enticing as a graphical user interface (GUI) or web-application, restricting the early examples to console programs will allow us to keep focused on the syntax of C# and the core aspects of the .NET platform, rather than dealing with the complexities of building GUIs or web sites.
As its name implies, the Console class encapsulates input, output, and error-stream manipulations for console-based applications. Table 3-2 lists some (but definitely not all) members of interest.