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Beep()

This method forces the console to emit a beep of a specified frequency and

duration.

BackgroundColor

These properties set the background/foreground colors for the current 

ForegroundColor

output. They may be assigned any member of the ConsoleColor

enumeration.

BufferHeight

These properties control the height/width of the console’s buffer area.

BufferWidth

Title

This property sets the title of the current console.

WindowHeight

These properties control the dimensions of the console in relation to the 

WindowWidth

established buffer.

WindowTop

WindowLeft

Clear()

This method clears the established buffer and console display area.

Basic Input and Output with the Console Class

In addition to the members in Table 3-2, the Console type defines a set of methods to capture input

and output, all of which are static and are therefore called by prefixing the name of the class

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(Console) to the method name. As you have seen, WriteLine() pumps a text string (including a car-

riage return) to the output stream. The Write() method pumps text to the output stream without a

carriage return. ReadLine() allows you to receive information from the input stream up until the

Enter key is pressed, while Read() is used to capture a single character from the input stream.

To illustrate basic I/O using the Console class, create a new Console Application project named

BasicConsoleIO and update your Main() method to call a helper method named GetUserData():

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

Console.WriteLine("***** Basic Console I/O *****");

GetUserData();

Console.ReadLine();

}

}

Implement this method within the Program class with logic that prompts the user for some bits

of information and echoes each item to the standard output stream. For example, we could ask the

user for his or her name and age (which we will treat as a text value for simplicity, rather than the

expected numerical value) as follows:

static void GetUserData()

{