Intro:-
Calendars are used to display calendar data on the terminal. Spectre.Console is a .NET library which is used to create console applications. Spectre.Console is rendering the calendar on the terminal.
Steps:-
with few commands and also a few lines of code, you can display a high visual calendar on the terminal. The steps are given below.
Create Project
>dotnet new console -o cliapp
Install Nuget Package
>dotnet add package Spectre.Console
Create object
var rule = new Rule("[red]Calendar CLI App [/]");
Add some styling code
calendar.BorderStyle(Style.Parse("Magenta3"));
Calendar Events
You can add an event to the calendar. If a date has an event associated with it, the date gets highlighted in the calendar.calendar.AddCalendarEvent(2023, 2, 5);
api docs
Calendar AddCalendarEvent(int, int, int)
which is year, month and date respectively.
Render on console
AnsiConsole.Write(calendar);
Conclusion:-
To render a calendar, create a calendar object, and add some styling code according to the app's requirement. Complete the app by passing the calendar to a console's Write
method.
The full source code is on GitHub.