During this talk we will review benefits that console brings to .NET developers in their day to day activity.

1. Serhiy Kalinets
Steer73
Console: why should we care?

2. About Me
17 years in the business
In .NET since 2005
Love to code
Technical Architect @ Steer73

3. Visual Studio

4. Everything in Visual Studio, why it's suboptimal
Works on my machine
Don't scale (you can make it locally, but what about
remote server?)
Always manual, tedious work

5. Console
Write once, run many
times
Run same scripts on
another machine

6. Console is not just cmd
Powershell
Bash
Custom shell

7. conemu

8. Do it faster
Quick re-run previous command (up arrow + enter)
Tab completion (filenames, git commands, branches etc.)
Execute several commands at once (separate with semicolon in
powershell)

9. Do it faster
Copy & paste from stack overflow (but be careful)
.NET Core is console friendly
Bootstrap your environment

10. Bootstrap your environment
Install applications, windows components with
chocolatey
Setup dev environment
git clone the-repo
cd the-repo
.build.cmd

11. Perform Complex Stuff
https://skalinets.github.io/using-powershell-for-smart-files-renaming.html

12. Bash vs Powershell
Bash
Same skills for both windows and linux
Easy to connect via ssh
Lot of recipes from internet
Powershell
It’s .NET
Everything is an object
Hard to connect to remote Windows machine

13. How to start
Install conemu
Try to use powershell (or bash) in all scenarios where you
use UI / explorer etc.
Working with files
Manage Azure / AWS
Automate your builds and everyday tasks

14. Thanks!