console/command prompt app .net/c#

Question

Any starting point/ideas for a custom console app which mimics the dos command prompt ? Basically looking for best practices and ideas for where to start Perhaps using powershell which frankly i've not looked at yet !

I know this is a little retro but i've found some limitations in the web app done using asp.net mvc etc. ( few of them such as permission issues reading network files etc. and other downstream issues from there )

essentially i'd like to make this a pluggable app where this app will be able to load different list of commands to be executed

ideally, this would support hyperlinks too where clicking on a hyperlink would execute the related command

Answer 1

There are several home-brewed command prompt controls; here's one on codeproject.

Otherwise you might try to pass values and retrieve response from Command Prompt

Answer 2

Here's a project you might be interested in: Console