What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to CLI Applications, introduces CLI applications and explains why they matter.
Chapter 2, Setting Up the Development Environment, describes how to set up your development environment.
Chapter 3, Basic Concepts of Console Applications in .NET, explains that there is a console application behind every CLI application. Therefore, we will start our journey by discussing console applications.
Chapter 4, Command-Line Parsing, converts our console application into a real CLI application, and we learn how to parse its arguments.
Chapter 5, Input/Output and File Handling, delves into the essential concepts of reading from and writing to files, a common task for CLI applications.
Chapter 6, Error Handling and Logging, explains how to handle errors to allow for graceful handling of these errors by the application and we will learn how to log relevant information for later analysis.
Chapter 7, Interactive CLI Applications, teaches techniques to enhance the user experience by creating interactive and visually attractive CLI applications.
Chapter 8, Building Modular and Extensible CLI Applications, delves into techniques to make our CLI applications easier to maintain and extend.
Chapter 9, Working with External APIs and Services, covers how to consume and work with external dependencies, including web services to extend the capabilities of our CLI applications.
Chapter 10, Testing CLI Applications, explains how to test our CLI applications, as testing is one of the key steps of the application development lifecycle.
Chapter 11, Packaging and Deployment, delves into how to package and distribute our CLI applications to our users and customers using the most widely used distribution methods.
Chapter 12, Performance Optimization and Tuning, covers how to spot performance issues along with the common techniques to enhance our applications’ performance, making our users happy.
Chapter 13, Security Considerations for CLI Applications, explores key security areas, explores tools that help us assess the security posture of our applications, and teaches some techniques to secure remote communications.
Chapter 14, Additional Resources and Libraries, explores additional material that will help you deep dive into the various concepts we covered in this book.
