What is the best way to write data to the text console at arbitrary locations on the screen and with custom fore/background colors?
NET applications can use the System. Console class to read characters from and write characters to the console. Data from the console is read from the standard input stream, data to the console is written to the standard output stream, and error data to the console is written to the standard error output stream.
In C#, the Console class is used to represent the standard input, output, and error streams for the console applications. You are not allowed to inherit Console class. This class is defined under System namespace. This class does not contain any constructor.
Console.SetCursorPosition, Console.BackgroundColor, Console.ForegroundColor, and Console.ResetColor.
Note these were added to the .NET Framework in version 2.0. Prior to that you would have needed PInvoke.
There are a couple of libraries that can be helpful when writing TUI based applications in C#:
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