private static void Demo2_DemonstrateSimultaneousRenderToConsoleAndHtmlFile()
{
using (StreamWriter demo2Out = new StreamWriter("demo2Out.html"))
{
// First, let's build a collection of objects to render.
var filesInCurrentDirectory =
new DirectoryInfo(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()).GetFiles();
// The anonymous type we're building has properties Name, Extension and CreationTime.
// The resulting table will have a column for each of those properties.
var objectsToRender =
filesInCurrentDirectory
.Select(x => new { x.Name, x.Extension, x.CreationTime });
// Next, set up some table renderers. First, a writer that will write the
// table to the console.
var consoleTableWriter = new ConsoleTableWriter();
consoleTableWriter.SetBorderCharacterSet(TextTableWriter.BasicAsciiBorderCharacterSet);
// Now, a writer that will write HTML to an output file.
var htmlTableWriter = new HtmlTableWriter(demo2Out);
// Now, a single renderer which takes care of writing our single table to
// both of the above destinations.
var multipleTableRenderer = new MultipleTargetTableWriter(consoleTableWriter, htmlTableWriter);
// Finally, we actually render the table
TableRenderer.Render(objectsToRender, multipleTableRenderer);
}
// And launch a browser to display the generated html
Process.Start("demo2Out.html");
}
private static void Demo6_Grids()
{
// First, let's build a collection of objects to render.
var filesInCurrentDirectory =
new DirectoryInfo(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()).GetFiles();
// The anonymous type we're building has properties Name, Length, CreationTime and LastWriteTime.
// The resulting table will have a column for each of those properties.
var objectsToRender =
filesInCurrentDirectory
.Select(x => new { x.Name, x.Length, x.CreationTime, x.LastWriteTime });
// Define the structure of the table - four columns.
var tableStructure = TableStructure.Build()
.Column("Name")
.Column("Length")
.Column("CreationTime")
.Column("LastWriteTime")
.Finish();
ITableWriter tw = new MultipleTargetTableWriter(
new ConsoleTableWriter(),
new GridTableWriter());
// Now, we render the table
int threshold = 4096;
TableRenderer.Render(objectsToRender.Where(x => x.Length > threshold), tw, tableStructure);
TableRenderer.Render(objectsToRender.Where(x => x.Length <= threshold), tw, tableStructure);
}
private static void Demo5_DemonstrateColumnGroups()
{
// First, let's build a collection of objects to render.
var filesInCurrentDirectory =
new DirectoryInfo(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()).GetFiles();
// The anonymous type we're building has properties Name, Length, CreationTime and LastWriteTime.
// The resulting table will have a column for each of those properties.
var objectsToRender =
filesInCurrentDirectory
.Select(x => new { x.Name, x.Length, x.CreationTime, x.LastWriteTime } );
// Define the structure of the table - two groups of columns, each containing two columns.
var tableStructure = TableStructure.Build()
.ColumnGroup("Core")
.Column("Name")
.Column("Length")
.ColumnGroup("Time")
.Column("CreationTime")
.Column("LastWriteTime")
.Finish();
ITableWriter tw = new MultipleTargetTableWriter(
new ConsoleTableWriter(),
new HtmlTableWriter("demo5Out.html"));
// Now, we render the table to the console.
TableRenderer.Render(objectsToRender, tw, tableStructure);
Process.Start("demo5out.html");
}
