Basic Concepts of Console Applications in .NET
Now that our development environment has been set up, it’s time to start our journey through the development of CLI applications using .NET.
However, first, we will explore console applications!
You’re probably familiar with console applications, and you may be wondering why we need to discuss console applications in a book dedicated to CLI applications. The reason is that at the core of every CLI application is a console application. That’s why, in this chapter, we’ll take a moment to explore console applications. Plus, you know what they say: a reminder never hurts 😉.
Console applications can be seen as the simplest CLI applications one can build.
Hence, by exploring how we create, run, and interact with a console application, we will gain a basic understanding of how to work with CLI applications and how to build them by leveraging the console application template provided with the .NET...