How to change foreground and background text color in console?

Question

I'm writing a console C# program. I would like to change the foreground and the background color of the text in console.

Solution 1

Console.BackgroundColor//t set the background color for the text.
Console.ForegroundColor//to set the foreground color for the text.
Console.ResetColor();//set back the foreground color and background color to the default.

Solution 2

You need only to set

Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Blue;
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;

Read all about it at http://www.dotnetperls.com/console-color

Solution 3

Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
Console.BackgroundColor = Console.Color.White;

Solution 4

You should be able to use the following properties (links to MSDN documentation):

Console.BackgroundColor

Console.ForegroundColor

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Comments

[king9981]

So, no need to use the windows API!