Good resources for writing console style applications for Windows?

Question

For certain programs nothing beats the command line. Unfortunately, I have never seen good documentation or examples on how to write console applications that go beyond \"He

Answer 1

This is the best tool for it I've ever seen!!
1) Create any application using VB6 IDE
2) Convert it to Console Application, using THIS!

Answer 2

You could also try Free Pascal. It is a free ((L)GPL) Object Pascal compiler which is compatible with the Delphi-compiler. It has an console-based IDE, which proves that you can make very good console-applications with it, and which you can use as an example.

If you want to use a graphical IDE to build your console-application, you can download the Lazarus IDE.

As a bonus your application will run on Windows (32/64 bit), Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris etc...

Answer 3

As Robsoft says Delphi would be a good start. There is Turbo Delphi (Pascal based) or Turbo C++ both free editions.

web site here.

http://www.turboexplorer.com/

Answer 4

Check out some of the mono libs. They have a great one to parse command line arguments but can't remember the namespace.
Miguel just posted some terminal code as well.

Answer 5

For ncurses-like library/framework on Windows, I'll highly suggest to get your hand dirty with PDCurses.

If you trying/using C#, there's Curses-Sharp.

Answer 6

In Windows or DOS, I used the conio library from Borland. It's very old but fine enough for a beginner like me.