Crafting modern CLI tools using .NET

Abstract

Console apps old school? Nope! For internal tools, quick proof of concepts, or even big projects catered to developers; they are still very useful! However, there are some things we can do to make them easier to develop.

Out-of-the-box .NET console applications do not offer a lot of flexibility. For example, you miss a dependency injection container and a good developer experience to easily define commands and corresponding arguments. This code-driven session offers a possible solution!