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External data: using text files to store data. We will create a console application that will let us display text from, and save data to, an external data file. After we walk through how to read in data and write it back out, there is an example of how you could build a simple menu ...continue reading "Reading and Writing External Data (C# Console Application)"

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Add color to your console application! Color can help emphasize important content and create an engaging interface. C# console application color is limited, but it can still be used to improve your game or software interface. Text and Background Foreground and background color properties can be changed in C# console applications. The foreground is the ...continue reading "Console Application Color: Text and Background"

ASCII art design
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Add design elements to your console application's interface. You can add visual design to your C# text-based console application even though you can't use graphic files. Alphanumeric characters can be used to create design elements, ASCII design, in your console application. Used strategically, ASCII art can make an interface more interesting. Balance your ASCII art ...continue reading "Console Application ASCII Design"

Console Application Title Bar Text
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Customize console window size and title. Modifying console window properties can improve your application interface for players of your text-based game, or users of your application. The application's title bar and window size are a couple of the basic command line window properties to consider modifying. Code examples are included to help you test out ...continue reading "Console Application Window Properties"

'old lady who' song
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Lyrics streamlined with arrays and a nested loop. A variation on the solution at rosettacode.org that uses arrays, a nested loop, and composite formatting to print out the repetitive lyrics to the song "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly". Screenshot Repetitive Lyrics Code using System; namespace Song { class Program { private ...continue reading "Repetitive Lyrics Using Arrays & Nested Loop"