(Note for other readers: Gerhard and I know each other.)

But it proves my point (first sentenses), doesn’t it?

Anyway, I’m still using this lib, yet plain console stuff is actually not on my allways too long things-to-look-into-list. Any effort in this area will probably be spent on PowerShell (perhaps in conjunction with MMC and/or MSBuild).

AJ.NET

You might enjoy writing a PowerShell cmdlet. Like your ConsoleApp idea, a cmdlet author extends our Cmdlet class, and gets a ton of stuff for free. For example, you simply add public properties to your class to define parameters. When you tag them with some of our attributes, you get validation, default values, etc.

Lee

I’m disappointed of you – because you don’t read my blog. If so, you had recognized that I wrote a same coloured article. In that article I offer a console framework that uses delegates to process the commandline arguments.

Perhaps we can combine your XML description with my commandline parsing framework.

But for now, have a nice vacation in Canada.

Cheers
Gerhard

http://jachman.wordpress.com/2006/05/05/framework-for-console-applications-or-how-to-parse-command-line-arguments/