"Print" to Screen in Console app

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Ken VdB

Hi everyone,

One of the things that really interested me about VS.net was that I can now
create a console based app using VB. I have a number of QuickBASIC 4.5 apps
which we are still using and for which I still have source code. I would
love to port these to VB.net but can't figure out how to print to the
screen. I suddenly realized it has been a long time since I have done
anything like this (most of my apps are web-based with a MS-SQL backend) and
I can't figure out how to create a UI in a console based app in VB.net. How
do I go about doing this? Is there some kind of "best practices" I should
be aware of?

Another huge advantage to these apps it that they will be accessible via the
Windows 2000 Server telnet service.

Cheers,

Ken.
 
Interesting idea, I would also be interested in this.

I would imagine that you would really need to create/buy some sort of
console textual screen designer. Or you could simply use the Console
methods to create a menuing system, but they you are limited to on input per
screen.

Dan
 
One problem is that the console does not support X,Y positioning or clear
screen. This apparently will come with Whidbey.

Regards - OHM#

Interesting idea, I would also be interested in this.

I would imagine that you would really need to create/buy some sort of
console textual screen designer. Or you could simply use the Console
methods to create a menuing system, but they you are limited to on
input per screen.

Dan
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Regards - OHM# (e-mail address removed)
 
Ken,

There is a similar discussion on this board right now. Do a search for the
thread with the subject WriteConsoleOutput. There is a bunch of source code
included with the posts.

-- Doug
 
What is interesting about this is that we are heading back full circle
(again) to the days of the mainframe dumb terminal. I love it... 8-)
 
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