Console Applications

[beingchinmay]

Console applications are basically extinct as a final software delivery in the Windows world. Okay,developers and administrators still use them a lot, but the average nontechnical user has GUI-based applications as their final delivery. For developer tools, there is nothing like them. If you need to
figure out how to do something, write out a console application. There is nothing simpler and nothing with less overhead. This book is full of console applications for just those reasons.

The key elements of all console applications are the main() function and the System::Console::WriteLine() method. In fact, that is almost all you need to write a console application.

[damponting44]

A console application is a computer program designed to be used via a text-only computer interface, such as a text terminal, the command line interface of some operating systems (Unix, DOS, etc.) or the text-based interface included with most Graphical User Interface (GUI) operating systems, such as the Win32 console in Microsoft Windows, the Terminal in Mac OS X, and xterm in Unix.
To work with console applications in .NET you have to use a class called Console that is available within the namespace System, which is the root namespace.