09-09-2011, 04:01 AM
Console Application
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 some Graphical User Interface (GUI) operating systems, such as the Win32 console in Microsoft Windows. A user typically interacts with a console application using only a keyboard and display screen, as opposed to GUI applications, which normally require the use of a mouse or other pointing device. Many console applications are command line tools, but numerous Text User Interface (TUI) programs also exist.
A console application does not make use of the visual interface capabilities of the Windows operating system. It runs at the DOS prompt, or command window, and its interactions with the user are limited to text input and output.
Console Applications can be developed using VB .NET or C# .NET
VB .NET
Visual Basic .NET (or VB .NET) is a version of Microsoft's Visual Basic that was designed, as part of the company's .NET product group, to make Windows and Web applications easier to develop. According to Microsoft, VB .NET was reengineered, rather than released as VB 6.0 with added features, to facilitate making fundamental changes to the language. VB.NET is the first fully object-oriented programming (OOP) version of Visual Basic, and as such, supports OOP concepts such as abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism.
Example of a simple Vb.Net Console Application.
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Console.WriteLine("Hello World")
End Sub
End Module
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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 some Graphical User Interface (GUI) operating systems, such as the Win32 console in Microsoft Windows. A user typically interacts with a console application using only a keyboard and display screen, as opposed to GUI applications, which normally require the use of a mouse or other pointing device. Many console applications are command line tools, but numerous Text User Interface (TUI) programs also exist.
A console application does not make use of the visual interface capabilities of the Windows operating system. It runs at the DOS prompt, or command window, and its interactions with the user are limited to text input and output.
Console Applications can be developed using VB .NET or C# .NET
VB .NET
Visual Basic .NET (or VB .NET) is a version of Microsoft's Visual Basic that was designed, as part of the company's .NET product group, to make Windows and Web applications easier to develop. According to Microsoft, VB .NET was reengineered, rather than released as VB 6.0 with added features, to facilitate making fundamental changes to the language. VB.NET is the first fully object-oriented programming (OOP) version of Visual Basic, and as such, supports OOP concepts such as abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism.
Example of a simple Vb.Net Console Application.
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Console.WriteLine("Hello World")
End Sub
End Module
more at Cegonsoft