In .NET 6 (and newer) when you create a new Console application, the result is really minimal:
That is a big difference if you compare this with what you had before:
This is possible thanks to some new C# features like Top Level Statements and Implicit Using Directives.
But what if you want to use arguments inside your Console app?
Before the arguments where available through the ‘args’ parameter that was available as an argument of the ‘Main’ method. But now there is no method, so what should you do?
Turns out that you can just use the args parameter although it isn’t defined anywhere:
Behind the scenes the compiler will generate a Main method for your and provide the args parameter.
From the documentation:
The entry point method always has one formal parameter, string[] args. The execution environment creates and passes a string[] argument containing the command-line arguments that were specified when the application was started. The string[] argument is never null, but it may have a length of zero if no command-line arguments were specified. The ‘args’ parameter is in scope within top-level statements and is not in scope outside of them. Regular name conflict/shadowing rules apply.