SmartCon 1.1.0

SmartCon

A small collection of console tools for .NET.

Processing of commandline arguments

You can use SmartCon to handle commandline arguments of console apps. There's no neet to parse the arguments, check fo a trailing dash etc.

Basic Example:

using SmartCon;
  
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var handler = new ArgumentProcessor();
    handler.RegisterArgument("h", (v) => GetHelp());
    handler.RegisterArgument("f", (v) => SetFilename(v));
    handler.RegisterPostProcessor(DoWork);
    handler.Process(args);
}
  
private static void DoWork()
{
    // ...
}
  
private static void GetHelp()
{ 
    // ...
}
  
private static void SetFilename(string filename)
{
    // ...
}

The previous example will give you a console app, which accepts the commandline arguments -h and -f. Parameters are specified with an equal-sign, for example -f=myfile.txt.

Different flavours of commandlines

Choosing the commandline flavour

You can change the commandline style by setting the CommandlineDescription property:

var handler = new ArgumentProcessor();
handler.CommandLineDescription = CommandLineDescription.CmdStyle;

SmartCon defines the following styles:

Default style

Arguments are prefixed with a dash, parameters are separated by an equal-sign:

-f=myfile.txt

var handler = new ArgumentProcessor();
handler.CommandLineDescription = CommandLineDescription.DefaultCommandLine;

DotNet-Style

Arguments are prefixed with a dash, parameters are separated by a colon:

-f:myfile.txt

var handler = new ArgumentProcessor();
handler.CommandLineDescription = CommandLineDescription.DotNetStyle;

CMD-Style

Arguments are prefixed with a forward-slash, parameters are separated by a space:

/f myfile.txt

var handler = new ArgumentProcessor();
handler.CommandLineDescription = CommandLineDescription.CmdStyle;

GNU-Style

Arguments are prefixed with two dashes, parameters are separated by an equal-sign:

--f=myfile.txt

var handler = new ArgumentProcessor();
handler.CommandLineDescription = CommandLineDescription.GnuStyle;