Name
Console
Synopsis
The Console
class provides static
methods that allow you to create
console, or command-line, applications. If you attempt to use these
methods in a Windows Forms application, they are ignored. For a
console application, data is transmitted through three streams. Input
is received from the standard input stream,
output is written through the standard output
stream, and error data is written to the
standard error output stream. These streams are
provided through the In
property, which is a
System.IO.TextReader
object, and through the
Out
and Error
properties, which
are System.IO.TextWriter
objects. You can use the
methods of these objects directly, or you can use the methods
provided by the Console
class. For example, you
can use the Write( )
method to write any basic
data type to the console window (or use WriteLine( )
to write data with a trailing hard return). You can also
use the ReadLine( )
method to cause the console
window to wait for input. When the user presses the Enter key, this
method returns with a string containing the input characters (except
the final hard return).
You can use the SetIn( )
, SetOut( )
, and SetError( )
methods to bind the
console to different stream objects, such as
System.IO.FileStream
. To reset the streams to
their default objects, use the methods prefixed with
OpenStandard
.
public sealed class Console { // Public Static Properties public static TextWriter Error{get; } public static TextReader In{get; } public static TextWriter ...
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