I had so much going on that I wasn't able to participate in NANY 2018, so I'm getting this app in extra early, for NANY 2019.
Purpose: The
cpg.exe program is a Windows command-line program that I developed because for several weeks now I've been writing a series of C# Console Programming tutorials on my local DokuWiki. Over the weeks, I've developed a pair of libraries, ioLibrary.cs and stringLibrary.cs, that I use frequently, almost with every new console program I create to illustrate a concept or test a new method. It became laborious copying the two libraries' response files to the new program's directory each time, creating a custom response file for the new program itself, and creating a batch file to call all three three response files against the
csc.exe command line compiler. Thus
cpg.exe was created to automate all of that.
It's very handy for me, personally. If anyone would like, I can further develop it so that it is library-agnostic and creates the simplest possible console program.
Target Audience: C# console programmers.
Unzip the download, and place folder
csdev at the root of C:\. Open an
elevated command prompt in the same directory (or open the elevated prompt and navigate to
cpg.exe).
cpg.exe is located in the /tools/ subdirectory. Run
cpg.exe (stands for
console
program
generator) and it will show you the use of its command-line syntax. Requires .NET Runtime.
Basically, the app is a Console Program Generator (hence,
cpg.exe). When you run it and supply a path/to/desired/directory/mypreferredfilename
as a argument, it will create a C# console source code file at the specified location
and will
compile it.
Here's a screen shot of an executing test console app generated by
cpg.exe:
My entry: A .NET Console Program GeneratorThe download should be extracted to your root drive on a Windows PC, i.e., C:\
That's where you should locate the /csdev/ folder after unzipping. Hey, I didn't know when I started this that I'd be sharing it,
so it's not very flexible as I coded it for my own use.
Currently, the program copies a couple of DLL libraries I wrote to the new source code file's directory. The library source code is included in the download. Also, when
cpg.exe writes the source
to c:\what\ever\path\filename, it inserts the relevant
using statements (equivalent of C++ includes), creates needed response files,and generates a batch file to make repetitive command line builds fast. The
cpg program itself has had ioLib.dll and strLib.dll merged with its own assembly via ILMerge tool.
