Make a shortcut for Console.WriteLine()

Question

I have to type Console.WriteLine() many times in my code. Is it possible to create a shortcut for Console.WriteLine so that I can use it like...

CW=Console.Wr         


        

Answer 1

If you write this at the top of the page:

using j = System.Console;

then at any time, you can use

j.WriteLine("Anything you want to write");

And that's all.

By the way, you can use anything instead of the "j".

Answer 2

To piggyback on Michael Stum's answer, we could also make object as the type parameter to Action delegate like so:

Action<object> cw = x => Console.WriteLine(x.ToString());

I usually do that on my C# Interactive window to quickly print out objects that I'm working with.

For example:

> var grid = driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//div[@class='ReactVirtualized__Grid__innerScrollContainer']//div"));
> cw(grid);
System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection`1[OpenQA.Selenium.IWebElement]
> 

Answer 3

// For formatting string and parameters define a function
// The shortcut function wl, kind of write line
public void wl( string format, params object[] parms){
    Console.WriteLine(format, parms);
}

// Just for strings we can use Action delegate
Action<string> ws = Console.WriteLine;

// examples:
ws("String with no formatting parameters");

wl("String without formatting parameters");
wl("String with {0} parameters {1}", 2, "included");
wl("several parameters {0} {1} {2} repeated {0}", 1234, 5678, 6543);

or using extension method: formatString.wl(arguments...)

public static class ConsoleWriteExtensions
{
    public static void wl(this string format, params object[] parms){
        Console.WriteLine(format, parms);
    }
}

"{0} -> {1}".wl("Mili",123.45); // prints Mili -> 123.45

Answer 4

If you want it global, you could write an extension method:

public static class StringExtensions
{
   public static void ConLog(this string msg)
   {
     Console.WriteLine(msg);
   }
}

Now wherever you are, you can call "My Message".ConLog(); on any string in your application and write it to the console.

Answer 5

public static void CW(string str)
{
     Console.WriteLine(str);
}

Answer 6

One of my favorites also... Coming from BASIC and Python... I missed Print() very often... I also use Print() extensively in JS/ES for console.log/other-consoles often...

So declare it as a function:

public static void Print( object x ){ Console.WriteLine( x ); }

• you can compose strings at your will as the function parameter like:

 Print( "Hi\n\n" + x.toString() + "\n\nBye!!!" );

• or interpolate vars at will

Print( $"{x} ~ {y} ~ {z}" );