Checking Standard Input in C#

Question

I\'m writing a small command line utility whose purpose is to parse the output of another utility. I want it to be invokable in two ways:

c:\\> myutility file         


        

Answer 1

The quick and dirty way is to wrap Console.KeyAvailable in a try/catch and if that throws, you know that input is redirected from a file. It's not very unusual to use try/catch to detect a state when you cannot find an appropriate method to do the checking for you.