[API Proposal]: Add overloads to Console.Write that also take a ConsoleColor parameter

[FilipToth]

Background and motivation

This API proposal should just make it easier to write things of different colors to the console. Right now, we have to call three methods to do so. This is how we would do that now:

Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Blue;
Console.Write("Hello!");
Console.ResetColor();

This is what I propose:

Console.Write(ConsoleColor.Blue, "Hello!");

This isn't anything critical, it's just some sugar to make writing code a little bit easier.

API Proposal

namespace System
{
    public static class Console
    {
        public void Write(ConsoleColor color, String value);
    }
}

I would suggest having an overload for Write and WriteLine.

API Usage

System.Console.WriteLine(ConsoleColor.Red, "Red text!");

Alternative Designs

No response

Risks

I do not see any risks associated with this.

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Issue Details

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Background and motivation

This API proposal should just make it easier to write things of different colors to the console. Right now, we have to call three methods to do so. This is how we would do that now:

Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Blue;
Console.Write("Hello!");
Console.ResetColor();

This is what I propose:

Console.Write(ConsoleColor.Blue, "Hello!");

This isn't anything critical, it's just some sugar to make writing code a little bit easier.

API Proposal

namespace System
{
    public static class Console
    {
        public void Write(ConsoleColor color, String value);
    }
}

I would suggest having an overload for Write and WriteLine.

API Usage

System.Console.WriteLine(ConsoleColor.Red, "Red text!");

Alternative Designs

No response

Risks

I do not see any risks associated with this.

Author:	FilipToth
Assignees:	-
Labels:	api-suggestion, area-System.Console, untriaged
Milestone:	-

[adamsitnik]

Hi @FilipToth

Thank you for your proposal. I am going to include this in #52374 which we may include in .NET 7 if the stars align. It would most probably be exposed by the new Terminal type, with all the colors supported by VT100.

[FilipToth]

Ok, Great that would be awesome. Thank you.

[stephentoub]

This is also a dup of #39746.

[adamsitnik]

This is also a dup of #39746.

I've not noticed that. In such a case I am going to close this issue.

@FilipToth please follow #39746 and #52374 for updates. Thank you!