Sending pipe arguments to a C# application

Question

I need to build an simple console application that accepts a pipe as input. We are running Windows Server 2012. The data is coming from another application that is going to

Answer 1

When you use < and > with an application, the standard input and output streams (screen/keyboard interface) is replaced by a file stream.

You can use the regular Console.Read and Console.ReadLine commands to read from the stream specified by the < directive, or use Console.In which is a TextReader.

Similarly Console.Write and Console.WriteLine can be used to write to the output stream specified by the > directive, or Console.Out which is a TextWriter.

If you use the | pipe directive, for example myapp.exe | sort, the output stream of the first program goes into the input stream of the next program.