Get colors in your VB.NET console application

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Introduction

How can i use colors to make my console application look pretty with VB.NET ? I was writing a remoting server when this idea came ... So i've made this little module ! It was not really difficult to do but i think it could save your time ;)

How to use it ?

You can either change background and foregroud ...

ConsoleTools.SetConsoleColors(ConsoleColor.Green, ConsoleColor.DarkBlue)

... or just foreground :

ConsoleTools.SetConsoleColors(ConsoleColor.Pink) 

How does it run ?

I just use kernel api's SetConsoleTextAttribute (to change colors) and GetStHandle (to retrieve console output handles). An enumeration has been created to have bases colors codes : enumeration values must be directly used to change foreground color, and enumeration values * 16 (mask) must be used to change foreground color.

So you just have now to use SetConsoleColors function (which use kernel's api) to change your console colors ...

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