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Building CLI Applications with C# and .NET

You're reading from   Building CLI Applications with C# and .NET A step-by-step guide to developing cross-platform CLI apps—from coding and testing to deployment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835882740
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tidjani Belmansour Tidjani Belmansour
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with CLI Applications FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to CLI Applications 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment 4. Chapter 3: Basic Concepts of Console Applications in .NET 5. Part 2: Foundations of Building CLI Applications
6. Chapter 4: Command-Line Parsing 7. Chapter 5: Input/Output and File Handling 8. Chapter 6: Error Handling and Logging 9. Part 3: Advanced Topics in CLI Application Development
10. Chapter 7: Interactive CLI Applications 11. Chapter 8: Building Modular and Extensible CLI Applications 12. Chapter 9: Working with External APIs and Services 13. Part 4: Testing and Deployment
14. Chapter 10: Testing CLI Applications 15. Chapter 11: Packaging and Deployment 16. Part 5: Advanced Techniques and Best Practices
17. Chapter 12: Performance Optimization and Tuning 18. Chapter 13: Security Considerations for CLI Applications 19. Chapter 14: Additional Resources and Libraries 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Your turn!

Following along with the provided code is a great way to learn through practice.

A better way is by challenging yourself to achieve tasks. Hence, I challenge you to achieve the following task:

Create a console application that does the following:

  • Sets the title of the terminal window to GUESSING GAME!
  • Generates a random integer value between 1 and 20
  • Tells the player that they have three chances to figure out that number
  • After each player’s trial, it should then do the following:
    • If the player figured out the number, the program displays, in green text, Congratulations, you won!, along with the number of trials it took the player to figure it out
    • If the player was not able to figure out the number within the three granted trials, the program should display, in red text, Better luck next time! The number to be guessed was along with the value to be guessed
    • If the player hits Enter without providing a number, the program should consider that the...
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