Capturing Standard Input in C#
My experience resolving a surprisingly tricky problem
I recently ran across a problem that was surprisingly challenging. I have a console application and I wanted to be able to send it information over standard input. That includes piping data to it such as echo "test" | myapp.exe and receiving command redirection such as myapp.exe < file.txt (see this link for more information about Windows command redirection). This sort of input all comes into your application by way of a stream called "standard input" or "stdin" for short. It turns out there's a lot of edge cases to consider when trying to capture standard input, and accounting for them all can be difficult.
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