Programming input and output with Visual Basic.NET

The Console class in Visual Basic.NET allows a program to interact with a raw console for input and output. In the previous chapter, we utilized a project template for creating the Windows Forms app. This chapter will use the Console App project template to give us easy access to the Console class. Console App projects can run on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems.

For output, we can utilize the Write and WriteLine methods of the Console class to output data to the screen. Here are some details to think about:

• The Console.Write and Console.WriteLine methods take a string parameter and send it to the console
• The Console.Write method leaves the cursor at the end of the output so further output continues on the same line
• Console.WriteLine sends the cursor to the following line

We can use the ReadLine method of the Console class to input data from the keyboard. Here are some details to think...