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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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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

One more thing

Up to this point, we have executed the program using the .NET CLI run command.

However, if you are familiar with CLI applications, you will know that this type of application is usually executed by the name of its executable file.

The first question that comes to mind is “Why have we executed our program using the .NET CLI run command?”. The answer is “because this is how you will do it when developing and testing your CLI application.”

The next question that comes to mind is “Well, how do I execute my program using its executable?”. The answer to that question is “by reaching the location of that executable file and running the program from there.”

Let’s see how we do this.

When you build the program, use the following command:

$ dotnet build

This will generate the executable file in the bin\Debug\net8.0 folder on your hard drive.

On a Windows machine, this will look like this:

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