Looking for a Command Line Argument Parser for .NET [closed]

I'm looking for a command line argument parser, such as "Command line parser" from http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/Genghis/ .

Features I'm looking for:

• Auto-generation of usage
• Should able to check required and optional parameters
• Parameters should support IEnumerable with separator support
• Should support flag parameters
• Would be nice to support combining parameters such as "/fx" == "/f /x"
• Would be nice to not force for a space after a parameter such as "/ftest.txt" == "/f test.txt"

P.S : "Command line parser" is quite good, I really like the design of it but there is no documentation, no new updates and I couldn't figure out to do certain stuff such as how to check for required parameters.

Solution 1:

My personal favourite 3rd party commandline parsing library is Command Line Parser and I assume this is the one you are referring to. The most recent release was less than 2 months ago and there are regular commits. If you want a more mature offering you could chek out the console library in the mono project (sorry I can't seem to find a direct link to the namespace at the moment, but its a part of the mono framework)

Solution 2:

Have a look at ndesk.options.

It is called Mono.Options now.

Solution 3:

A popular and pretty comprehensive C command-line parser is GNU getopt. This has been ported (or cloned) for C#/.Net several times. Some of these include:

• getopt# on freshmeat.net
• C# getopt at PHPGuru
• XGetoptCS on CodeProject
• GetOpt for .NET on CodeProject
• Getopt C#.NET on Codeplex

Take your pick! There are several others, and google can tell you about those,

Solution 4:

Sadly there's no built in support for handling that in a standard manner. Have you looked into PowerShell? I bet there's a class in that shell which does exactly what you want or something similar.