Any idea how I do the equivalent of gotoxy() and getch() in C# with a console program?

As far as I know, there is no equivalent of gotoxy() in C#. As far as .NET is concerned, the console is just an input, output and error stream, with no concept of "cursor position".

As for an equivalent to getch(), you can call System.Console.Read() to read a single character.

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To do "gotoxy", you need to P/Invoke the Win32 API functions - as Dean said, .NET doesn''t have a concept of a console beyond input, output and error streams.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/console_functions.asp


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Have a look at the ConsoleEx example at the GotDotNet site - it does what you want it to do (and a bit more).

http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/keywordsrch.aspx?keyword=ConsoleEx


[edited by - BurntToast on December 18, 2002 4:18:55 PM]

Cheers. I''ll give that a go. It''s just for getting some output for the little test programs I''m doing while learning the language.